Death, Beauty, Struggle: Untouchable Women Create the World

by Margaret Trawick

Death, Beauty, Struggle represents a long labor of love and the summation of forty years of Margaret Trawick's groundbreaking research. Centering her gaze on the lowest castes of India, now called Dalits, she describes the experience of women at this precarious level who are still treated as sub-human, sometimes by family members, sometimes by higher-caste men. Their private worlds, however, are full of art; rural Dalit women sing beautiful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249054
• ISBN13: 9780812249057
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"