Based on papers from a seminar "Theoretical Considerations on Gender and the South Asian Diaspora", Leicester University, 1999. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
(Dis)locating South Asian women in the academy / Nirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram -- 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 -- 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 -- A 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.
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