ABSTRACT
The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape case and the ensuing massive protests in December 2012. A critical documentation of some of the key moments surrounding the contemporary gendered formations and radicalisms in South Asia, the chapters span questions of class, caste, sexuality, digital feminisms, and conflict zones.
The book looks at anger, protest, and imaginations of resistance. It showcases the ‘new’ visibility that digital spaces have opened up to lend voice to survivors who are let down by traditional justice mechanisms and raises questions regarding ‘individualized’ modes of seeking justice as against traditional ‘collective’ voices that have always been a hallmark of movements. The volume analyses and criticizes the complicity of the state and the court as agents of reinforcing gender violence – an issue that has not been theorized enough by activists and scholars of violence. Further, it also delves into the #MeToo movement and the LoSHA, as both have raised contentious, controversial, and often conflicting debates on the nature of addressing sexual harassment, particularly at the workplace.
Calling for further debate and discussions of cyberspace, gender justice, sexual violence, male entitlement, and forms of neoliberal feminism, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers in the areas of women and gender studies, sociology and social theory, gender politics, political theory, democracy, protest movements, politics, media and the internet, political advocacy, and law and legal theory. It will also be a compelling read for anyone interested in gender justice and equal rights.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |36 pages
Introduction
part One|80 pages
The Complicated Imaginaries of Sexual Violence
chapter 3|17 pages
Hypermasculine Practices of the State and Literary Articulations of Resistance
part Two|151 pages
Beyond the Specters of Sexual Violence
chapter 5|31 pages
Whose Blood Is It Anyway? Locating Menstruation, Women's Rights
chapter 6|24 pages
Margins of Least Happiness
chapter 7|42 pages
Young Bengali Women's Sociability Practices in the Public Sphere
chapter 9|21 pages
Production of Neoliberal Subjectivity(ies) on the Shop Floor
part Three|82 pages
Realms of Corporeality, Collectivity and Resistance