ABSTRACT
This book situates the discourse on the gendered body within the rapidly transitioning South Asian socio-economic and cultural landscape. It critically analyzes gender politics from different disciplinary perspectives including psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-colonialism and law among others.
Enriched by contributions from well-known South Asian feminist scholars, this book discusses themes such as democracy and dissent, citizenship and violence and how the female body has historically been used in these discussions as a shield and a weapon. It also focuses on technology and misogyny, the politics of veiling and unveiling, the body of the Muslim women in contemporary India as well as bodies which are marginalized or labelled transgressive or monstrous. The chapters in the volume showcase the complexities, convergences and divergences which exist in the conception and understanding of the gendered body, sexuality and gender roles in different socio-cultural spaces in South Asia and how women negotiate these boundaries.
Topical and comprehensive, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, post-colonial studies and South Asian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|44 pages
Negotiation
chapter 1|14 pages
Wearing Multiple Bodies
part II|70 pages
Struggle
part III|64 pages
Resistance
chapter 10|14 pages
The Yakshi as the Monstrous Feminine
part IV|38 pages
Protest
chapter 13|11 pages
Voicing Democracy and Reclaiming Citizenship
chapter 14|13 pages
Campus Feminism and the Nation-State
chapter 15|12 pages
Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor
part V|42 pages
Critique
chapter 18|15 pages
“Knees & Feet Together, Shoulders Back and Chest Out” 1
part VI|58 pages
Representations and New Directions