Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-346) and index.
Contents:
Gender, Media and Popular Culture in a Global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- Construction of Gender in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The Writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan -- Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations, Refugee Women and Partition Studies / Paulomi Chakraborty -- Gender and Citizenship in India / Anupama Roy -- Gender and Democratic Politics in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin -- Law, Sex Work and Activism in India / Prabha Kotiswaran -- The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence / Vrinda Narain -- Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama -- The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context / Saadia Toor -- Gender, Media and Popular Culture in a Global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- Gender and Education in South Asia / Sangeeta Kamat -- Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered Constellations / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Gender and Property in Neoliberal Middle-class Kolkata: Of Untold Riches and Unruly Homes / Henrike Donner -- Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura -- An Intersection of Marxism and Feminism among India's Informal Workers: A Second Marriage? / Rina Agarwala -- Gendered Opportunity and Constraint in India's IT Industry: The Problem of Too Much 'Headweight' / Smitha Radhakrishnan -- A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary India / Priti Ramamurthy -- NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective / Lamia Karim -- Gender and Education in South Asia / Sangeeta Kamat -- Mapping Women's Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation / Rukmini Sen. Dalit Women Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the 'Quintessentially Marginal' / Manuela Ciotti -- Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship / Moon Charania -- Mapping Women's Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation / Rukmini Sen.
Summary:
Focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this overview of gender, women, and sexuality covers historical formations of gender and the significance of colonialism and nationalism; law, citizenship and the nation; representations of culture, place, identity; labor and the economy; and inequality, activism and the state.
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