"The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics"--Back cover Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: a reading of Bollywood's 'new women' / Saba Hussain and Nazia Hussain. Prayers to Kali: practicing radical numinosity / Anjana Raghavan -- Re-animating Muslim women's auto/biographical writings: Hayat-e-Ashraf as a palimpsest of educated selves / Shenila Khoja-Moolji -- Pious capital: fashionable femininity and the predicament of financial freedom / Sarah Shroff -- 'Bordering' life: denying the right to live before being born / Mira Tiwari -- Menstruating women and celibate gods: a discourse analysis of women's entry into Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India / Rashmi Kumari -- The culinary as 'border': perspectives on food and femininity in the Indian subcontinent / Shyamasri Maji -- A decolonial reading of the Punjabi (m)other in British Asian literature / Kavita Bhanot -- The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: a reading of Bollywood's 'new women' / Saba Hussain and Nazia Hussain.
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