ISBN:
082235165X
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082235179X
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0822394995
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9780822351658
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9780822351795
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9780822394990
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (vii, 422 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
e-Duke books scholarly collection
Parallel Title:
Print version South Asian Feminisms
DDC:
305.420954
Keywords:
Feminism
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; South Asian Feminisms: Contemporary Interventions; I. Feminism, Religion, and the Secular; From Shah Bano to Kausar Bano: Contextualizing the ''Muslim Woman'' within a Communalized Polity; Global Discourses, Situated Traditions, and Muslim Women's Agency in Pakistan; Martial Tales, Right-Wing Hindu Women, and ''History Telling'' in the Bombay Slums; II. Feminism, Labor, and Globalization; Of Moments, Not Monuments: Feminism and Labor Activism in Postnational Sri Lanka; Feminism, Migration, and Labor: Movement Building in a Globalized World; III. Feminism, War, and Peace
Description / Table of Contents:
Uncomfortable Alliances: Women, Peace, and Security in Sri LankaFeminist Politics and Maternalist Agonism; Witnessing as Feminist Intervention in India-Administered Kashmir; IV. Feminism, Figuration, and the Politics of Reading and Writing; Transnational Politics of Reading and the (Un)making of Taslima Nasreen; At the Intersection of Gender and Caste: Rescripting Rape in Dalit Feminist Narratives; Subject to Sex: A Small History of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj; V. Feminism, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality; Keeping Sexuality on the Agenda: The Sex Workers' Movement in Bangladesh
Description / Table of Contents:
Politicizing Political Society: Mobilization among Sex Workers in Sonagachi, IndiaQueering Approaches to Sex, Gender, and Labor in India: Examining Paths to Sex Worker Unionism; VI. Feminist Crisis and Futures; Hecklers to Power? The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in India; A Global Perspective on Gender: What's South Asia Got to Do with It?; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction : feminism, religion and the secular
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From Shahbano to Kausar bano : contextualizing the "Muslim woman" within a communalised polity
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Global discourses, situated traditions, and Muslim women's agency in Pakistan
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Martial tales, right-wing Hindu women and "history-telling" in the Bombay slums
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Of moments, not monuments : feminism and labor activism in post-national Sri Lanka
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Feminism, migration and labor : movement building in a globalized world
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Uncomfortable alliances : women, peace and security in Sri Lanka
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Feminist politics and maternalist agonism
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Witnessing as feminist intervention in India-administered Kashmir
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Transnational politics of reading and the (un)making Taslima Nasreen
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Rewriting the rape script in Dalit women's literature
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Subject to sex : a small history of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj
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Sex workers' movements and rights discourse
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"Civilizing" political society or "politicizing" civil society? : examining sex worker mobilization in Sonagachi, Calcutta
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Queering approaches to sex, gender and labor in India : examining paths to sex worker unionism
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Hecklers to power : the waning of human rights and challenges to feminist activism in South Asia
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A global perspective on gender : what's South Asia got to do with it?
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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