South Asian women in the diaspora
By: edited by Nirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram.
Contributors: Puwar, Nirmal.; Raghuram, Parvati.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Women -- South Asia -- Congresses.; South Asians -- Foreign countries -- Congresses.; East Indian diaspora -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on papers from a seminar "Theoretical Considerations on Gender and the South Asian Diaspora", Leicester University, 1999.
Table of contents: title: (Dis)locating South Asian women in the academy -- Nirmal Puwar and -- Parvati Raghuram -- PART I. SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN AND PARADIGMATIC (IM)POSSIBILITIES; title: Melodramatic postures and constructions -- Nirmal Puwar; title: Still "In Progress?'-Methodological dilemmas, tensions and contradictions in theorizing South Asian Muslim women -- Fauzia Ahmad; title: Fashioning the South Asian Diaspora: production and consumption tales -- Parvati Raghuram; title: Conceptualizing Emigrant Indian female subjectivity: possible entry points -- Mala Pandurang -- PART II. EMBODYING SOUTH ASIAN FEMININITIES; title: Romantic transgressions in the colonial zone: reading Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not Die -- Nandi Bhatia; title: Undressing the Diaspora -- Bakirathi Mani; title: Re-producing South Asian Wom(b)en: female feticide and the spectacle of culture -- Tej Purewal; title: Gendered Embodiments: mapping the body-politic of the raped woman and the nation in Bangladesh -- Nayanika Mookherjee -- PART III. ENGAGEMENTS; title: Kiss is just a kiss...Or is it? South Asian lesbian and bisexual women and the construction of space -- Rani Kawale; title: 'Changing views': theory and practice in a participatory community arts project -- Samina Zahir; title: South Asian women and the question of political organization -- Shaminder Takhar; title: Engendering diasporic identities -- Hasmita Ramji