ABSTRACT
The claim of unfettered marginality risks masking the particular and indeed different power relations South Asian women in the academy are themselves inscribed within. The institutional streamlining of disciplines has made it difficult for students to gain a complex understanding of the locations and subjectivities of South Asian women. The pigeon-holing and straitjacketing of racialized minorities can lead to a further layer of sub-sectioning for women who want to work in gender with the ‘race’ question. The ‘production’ and ‘consumption’ of South Asian women within academic discourses have occurred within a limited set of discourses. Pointing to the objectifying affects of scholarship on women of colour found in a range of theoretical genres, she calls for an investigation of how the subject positions, hopes and desires of academics themselves are wound up in the subjectivities they assign to others.
