ABSTRACT

This book examines the role of women bloggers in the Indian Blogosphere. It explores how women use new media technologies to create online spaces that share knowledge, raise awareness, and build communities. A unique work at the intersection of digital culture, feminist theory, and diaspora/transnationalism studies, this book brings to light layered and complex issues such as identity, gender performativity, presentation of self, migration, and citizenship.

This volume will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, political studies, gender studies, women’s studies, sociology, diaspora studies, feminist theory, media and communication studies.

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

Capturing the “breaking wave”

chapter 2|26 pages

Mapping the Indian blogosphere

Blogs as “site” and “text”

chapter 3|20 pages

New media studies and gendered narratives

chapter 4|36 pages

Everyday feminisms in cyberspace

Blogging about gender

chapter 5|37 pages

Transcontinental journeys and transnational lives

Blogging from the diaspora

chapter 6|36 pages

Culinary landscapes and gendered domesticity

Blogging about food

chapter 7|14 pages

Conclusion

Performing the gendered self