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      Women’s and Gender Studies in India
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      Crossings

      Women’s and Gender Studies in India

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      Women’s and Gender Studies in India book

      Crossings
      Edited ByAnu Aneja
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 8 May 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge India
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429025167
      Pages 402
      eBook ISBN 9780429025167
      Subjects Area Studies, Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Global Development, Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Aneja, A. (Ed.). (2019). Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings (1st ed.). Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429025167

      ABSTRACT

      This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women’s and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives.

      The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women’s and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory; gender, caste and class; feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, aesthetics, cinema, new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to draw upon and transform these areas in national and international contexts.

      This book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers in women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, queer studies and South Asian studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |20 pages

      Introduction

      Women’s and gender studies at the crossroads
      ByAnu Aneja

      part I|69 pages

      Stirrings, across time and place

      chapter 1|7 pages

      (How) ‘to be or not to be’

      Women’s and gender studies in India today
      BySharon Pillai

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Feminist crossings in time and space

      The question of culture
      ByMary E. John

      chapter 3|12 pages

      Dynamics of the women’s movement and women’s studies in India

      An evolutionary perspective
      ByVibhuti Patel

      chapter 4|11 pages

      Intersections of gender, caste and class

      Agenda building in the Indian women’s movement
      ByMangala Subramaniam, Preethi Krishnan

      chapter 5|13 pages

      Beyond essentialism

      Ecofeminism and the ‘friction’ between gender and ecology
      ByAnindita Majumdar

      chapter 6|11 pages

      Locating disability in the Indian women’s movement

      ByAnita Ghai

      part II|102 pages

      Interleaves

      chapter 7|17 pages

      Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn

      ByAnu Aneja

      chapter 8|18 pages

      Masculinity, sexuality and culture

      Entangled narratives
      BySanjay Srivastava

      chapter 9|9 pages

      Pride and prejudice

      Intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events
      ByNamita Paul

      chapter 10|14 pages

      (Dis)ability, gender and identity

      Crossing boundaries
      ByShubhangi Vaidya

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Gender, caste and Indian feminism

      The case of the Women’s Reservation Bill
      ByVrinda Marwah

      chapter 12|29 pages

      Bharat mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject

      ByKaren Gabriel

      part III|65 pages

      In-disciplinarities

      chapter 13|17 pages

      Feminism across disciplines

      From Plato’s Academy to the streets of Delhi
      ByDeepti Priya Mehrotra

      chapter 14|13 pages

      Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women’s and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings

      ByMeenakshi Malhotra

      chapter 15|10 pages

      Transgender studies in india

      Locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites
      ByAkshaya K. Rath

      chapter 16|12 pages

      Crafting spaces at new intersections

      In search of psychoanalytic feminism for India
      ByRachana Johri

      chapter 17|11 pages

      (Dis)respectable selfies

      Honour, surveillance and the undisciplined girl
      BySujatha Subramanian

      part IV|46 pages

      Entwining feminism and pedagogy

      chapter 18|10 pages

      Working through the women’s and gender studies teaching machine

      Notes on the way forward
      BySharon Pillai

      chapter 19|21 pages

      Blending in

      Reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education across cultures
      ByAnu Aneja

      chapter 20|13 pages

      Disrupting the gender binary

      Queering feminist pedagogy
      ByLeena Pujari

      part V|70 pages

      Conversations across borders

      chapter 21|21 pages

      Transnational feminist crossings

      On neo-liberalism and radical critique
      ByChandra Talpade Mohanty

      chapter 22|15 pages

      Globalization and Third Way theories

      The beleaguered family and the marginalization of women
      ByTaisha Abraham

      chapter 23|13 pages

      When feminists sidestep the nation state

      Transnational feminist journeys
      ByKrishna Menon

      chapter 24|19 pages

      Queer and now

      A roundtable forum with Dipika Jain, Akhil Kang, Sheena Malhotra, Hoshang Merchant, Shakthi Nataraj, Chayanika Shah, Nishant Shahani, Oishik Sircar and Ruth Vanita
      ByAneil Rallin
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