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
part I|69 pages
Stirrings, across time and place
chapter 3|12 pages
Dynamics of the women’s movement and women’s studies in India
chapter 4|11 pages
Intersections of gender, caste and class
part II|102 pages
Interleaves
chapter 9|9 pages
Pride and prejudice
part III|65 pages
In-disciplinarities
chapter 15|10 pages
Transgender studies in india
chapter 16|12 pages
Crafting spaces at new intersections
part IV|46 pages
Entwining feminism and pedagogy
chapter 18|10 pages
Working through the women’s and gender studies teaching machine
part V|70 pages
Conversations across borders