South Asian feminisms
Subtitle: contemporary interventions
By: Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose, eds
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780822351658; 9780822351795
Subjects: Feminism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : feminism, religion and the secular / Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose; title: From Shahbano to Kausar bano : contextualizing the "Muslim woman" within a communalised polity / Flavia Agnes; title: Global discourses, situated traditions, and Muslim women's agency in Pakistan / Amina Jamal; title: Martial tales, right-wing Hindu women and "history-telling" in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen; title: Of moments, not monuments : feminism and labor activism in post-national Sri Lanka / Sonali Perera; title: Feminism, migration and labor : movement building in a globalized world / Anannya Bhattacharjee; title: Uncomfortable alliances : women, peace and security in Sri Lanka / Vasuki Nesiah; title: Feminist politics and maternalist agonism / Malathi De Alwis; title: Witnessing as feminist intervention in India-administered Kashmir / Angana Chatterji; title: Transnational politics of reading and the (un)making Taslima Nasreen / Lamia Karim; title: Rewriting the rape script in Dalit women's literature / Laura Brueck; title: Subject to sex : a small history of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj / Anjali Arondekar; title: Sex workers' movements and rights discourse / Firdous Azim; title: "Civilizing" political society or "politicizing" civil society? : examining sex worker mobilization in Sonagachi, Calcutta / Toorjo Ghose; title: Queering approaches to sex, gender and labor in India : examining paths to sex worker unionism / Ashwini Sukthankar; title: Hecklers to power : the waning of human rights and challenges to feminist activism in South Asia / Ratna Kapur; title: A global perspective on gender : what's South Asia got to do with it? / Mrinalini Sinha.