Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia

Herausgeber: Fernandes, Leela

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9780367479657
• ISBN-10: 0367479656
• Artikelnr.: 62268043

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Historical Formations and Theoretical Framings 1. Gendered
Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again? 2. Construction of Gender
in the Late nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The
writings of Nawab 3. Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations,
Refugee Women and Partition Studies 4. The Contact Zones of
Intersectionality: Inequality and Knowledge Production on India 5. Dalit
Feminist Thought 6. Brahmanical Ignorance and Dominant Indian Feminism's
Origin Stories Part II Law Citizenship and the Nation 7. Gender and
Citizenship in India 8. Gender, Activism and Democratic Politics in
Bangladesh 9. Law, Sex Work and Activism in India 10. The Supreme Court of
India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence 11.
Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka 12. Weaponizing Women: Kashmir
and the Indian military Occupation Part III Representations of Culture,
Place, Identity 13. The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan:
Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context 14. Gender, media and
popular culture in a global India 15. Death and Friendship: Queer Archives
of the Space Between 16. Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered
constellations 17. Vernacular Frames Queer Encounters Part IV Labor and the
Economy 18. Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri
Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics 19. An Intersection of
Marxism and Feminism among India's Informal Workers: A Second Marriage? 20.
A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary
India 21. NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The
Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective 22. Gender and Paid
Domestic Work in Sri Lanka Part V Inequality, Activism and the State 23.
The Aurat March: Women's Movements and New Feminisms in Pakistan 24.
Feminism, Sexual Violence and the Times of #MeToo in India 25. Dalit Women
Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the 'Quintessentially
Marginal' 26. Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in
Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship 27. Mapping Women's Activism in India:
Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation