Routledge handbook of gender in South Asia /

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Edition:Second edition.
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2022].
©2022
Description:1 online resource ( xvii, 410 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Routledge handbooks
Routledge handbooks.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12771608
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Varying Form of Title:Handbook of gender in South Asia
Gender in South Asia
Other authors / contributors:Fernandes, Leela, editor.
ISBN:9781000471274
1000471276
9781003043102
1003043100
9781000471281
1000471284
0367479656
9780367479657
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Leela Fernandes is Director and the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She is the author of numerous books and essays. Her books on India include India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (2006), Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (1997), and her forthcoming book, Governing Water in India: Urbanization, Inequality and the Liberalizing State (2022).
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Table of Contents:
  • Gendered nationalism : from women to gender and back again? / Mrinalini Sinha
  • Construction of gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Muslim Bengal : the writings of Nawab / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan
  • Gender, women and partition : literary representations, refugee women and partition studies / Paulomi Chakraborty
  • The contact zones of intersectionality : inequality and knowledge production on India / Leela Fernandes
  • Dalit feminist thought / Shailaja Paik
  • Brahmanical ignorance and dominant Indian feminism's origin stories / Dia D'Costa
  • Gender and citizenship in India / Anupama Roy
  • Gender, activism and democratic politics in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin
  • Law, sex work and activism in India / Prabha Kotiswaran
  • The Supreme Court of India and maintenance for Muslim women : transformatory jurisprudence / Vrinda Narain
  • Female militancy : reflections from Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama
  • Weaponizing women : Kashmir and the Indian military occupation / Ather Zia
  • The political economy of moral regulation in Pakistan : religion, gender and class in a postcolonial context / Saadia Toor
  • Gender, media and popular culture in a global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri
  • Death and friendship : queer archives of the space between / Naisargi Dave
  • Women's place-making in Santosh Nagar : gendered constellations / Ann Grodzins Gold
  • Vernacular frames queer encounters / Navaneetha Mokil
  • Global governance initiatives and garment sector workers in Sri Lanka : tracing its gender and development politics / Kanchana Ruwanpura
  • An intersection of Marxism and feminism among India's informal workers : a second marriage? / Rina Agarwala
  • A feminist commodity chain analysis of rural transformation in contemporary India / Priti Ramamurthy
  • NGOs, state and neoliberal development in South Asia : the paradigmatic case of Bangladesh in a global perspective / Lamia Karim
  • Gender and paid domestic work in Sri Lanka / Annemari de Silva
  • The Aurat march : women's movements and new feminisms in Pakistan / Shama Dossa
  • Feminism, sexual violence and the times of #MeToo in India / Mary John
  • Dalit women between social and analytical alterity : rethinking the 'quintessentially marginal' / Manuela Ciotti
  • Feminism, sexuality and the rhetoric of westernization in Pakistan : precarious citizenship / Moon Charania
  • Mapping women's activism in India : resistances, reforms and (re)-creation / Rukmini Sen.