00844pab a2200133 454500008004000000100001900040245007800059260000900137300001300146362001000159520049700169650001000666773003400676180718b2009   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPaik, Shailaja  aAmchya Jalmachi Chittarkatha (the bioscope of our lives): who is my ally?  c2009  ap.39-47.  a3 Oct  aThis paper questions the commonly-held view by mainstream feminists and some Dalit men that Dalit women are somehow more "liberated" than high caste women. I argue that Dalit women also face patriarchal oppression, though it has a specific quality. Under such circumstances, who is a Dalit woman's ally? The essay focuses on the penumbra of debilitating circumstances, which call for a further understanding of the particular context of Dalit femininity and oppressed sexuality. - Reproduced.  aWomen  aEconomic and Political Weekly