ISBN:
9781474215558
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 252 p)
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
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Available in another form
DDC:
305.48/8914
Keywords:
East Indian diaspora Congresses
;
Women Congresses
;
South Asians Congresses
Abstract:
(Dis)locating South Asian women in the academy /Nirmal Puwar andParvati Raghuram --PART I. SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN AND PARADIGMATIC (IM)POSSIBILITIES --Melodramatic postures and constructions /Nirmal Puwar --Still "In Progress?'-Methodological dilemmas, tensions and contradictions in theorizing South Asian Muslim women /Fauzia Ahmad --Fashioning the South Asian Diaspora: production and consumption tales /Parvati Raghuram --Conceptualizing Emigrant Indian female subjectivity: possible entry points /Mala Pandurang --PART II. EMBODYING SOUTH ASIAN FEMININITIES --Romantic transgressions in the colonial zone: reading Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not Die /Nandi Bhatia --Undressing the Diaspora /Bakirathi Mani --Re-producing South Asian Wom(b)en: female feticide and the spectacle of culture /Tej Purewal --Gendered Embodiments: mapping the body-politic of the raped woman and the nation in Bangladesh /Nayanika Mookherjee --PART III. ENGAGEMENTS --Kiss is just a kiss...Or is it? South Asian lesbian and bisexual women and the construction of space /Rani Kawale --'Changing views': theory and practice in a participatory community arts project /Samina Zahir --South Asian women and the question of political organization /Shaminder Takhar --Engendering diasporic identities /Hasmita Ramji.
Note:
Based on papers from a seminar "Theoretical Considerations on Gender and the South Asian Diaspora", Leicester University, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.5040/9781474215558
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