Women's and Gender Studies in India: crossings
Aneja, Anu(ed.)
Women's and Gender Studies in India: crossings - New York Routledge 2019 - 385p.
Part I Stirrings, across time and place
1. (How) ‘to be or not to be’: women’s and gender studies in India today.
2. Feminist crossings in time and space: the question of culture.
3. Dynamics of the women’s movement and women’s studies in India: an evolutionary perspective.
4. Intersections of gender, caste and class: agenda building in the Indian women’s Movement.
5. Beyond essentialism: ecofeminism and the ‘friction’ between gender and ecology.
6. Locating disability in the Indian women’s movement.
Part II Interleaves: conceiving theories, theorizing identities
7. Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn.
8. Masculinity, sexuality and culture: entangled narratives.
9. Pride and prejudice: intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events.
10. (Dis)ability, gender and identity: crossing boundaries.
11. Gender, caste and Indian feminism: the case of the Women’s Reservation Bill.
12. Bharat Mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject.
Part III In-disciplinarities
13. Feminism across disciplines: from Plato’s Academy to the streets of Delhi.
14. Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women’s and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings.
15. Transgender studies in India: locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites.
16. Crafting spaces at new intersections: in search of psychoanalytic feminism for India.
17. (Dis)respectable selfies: honour, surveillance and the undisciplined girl.
Part IV Entwining feminism and pedagogy: inside the institution
18. Working through the women’s and gender studies teaching machine: notes on the way forward.
19. Blending in: reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education.
20. Disrupting the gender binary: queering feminist pedagogy.
Part V Conversations across borders
21. Transnational feminist crossings: on neo-liberalism and radical critique.
22. Globalization and Third Way theories: the beleaguered family and the marginalization of women.
23. When feminists sidestep the nation state: transnational feminist journeys.
24. Queer and now: a roundtable forum with Dipika Jain, Akhil Kang, Sheena Malhotra, Hoshang Merchant, Shakthi Nataraj, Chayanika Shah, Nishant Shahani, Oishik Sircar and Ruth Vanita. Aneil Rallin
Index
9780367360955A
Sex role
Women's studies
305.30954 WOM
Women's and Gender Studies in India: crossings - New York Routledge 2019 - 385p.
Part I Stirrings, across time and place
1. (How) ‘to be or not to be’: women’s and gender studies in India today.
2. Feminist crossings in time and space: the question of culture.
3. Dynamics of the women’s movement and women’s studies in India: an evolutionary perspective.
4. Intersections of gender, caste and class: agenda building in the Indian women’s Movement.
5. Beyond essentialism: ecofeminism and the ‘friction’ between gender and ecology.
6. Locating disability in the Indian women’s movement.
Part II Interleaves: conceiving theories, theorizing identities
7. Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn.
8. Masculinity, sexuality and culture: entangled narratives.
9. Pride and prejudice: intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events.
10. (Dis)ability, gender and identity: crossing boundaries.
11. Gender, caste and Indian feminism: the case of the Women’s Reservation Bill.
12. Bharat Mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject.
Part III In-disciplinarities
13. Feminism across disciplines: from Plato’s Academy to the streets of Delhi.
14. Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women’s and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings.
15. Transgender studies in India: locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites.
16. Crafting spaces at new intersections: in search of psychoanalytic feminism for India.
17. (Dis)respectable selfies: honour, surveillance and the undisciplined girl.
Part IV Entwining feminism and pedagogy: inside the institution
18. Working through the women’s and gender studies teaching machine: notes on the way forward.
19. Blending in: reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education.
20. Disrupting the gender binary: queering feminist pedagogy.
Part V Conversations across borders
21. Transnational feminist crossings: on neo-liberalism and radical critique.
22. Globalization and Third Way theories: the beleaguered family and the marginalization of women.
23. When feminists sidestep the nation state: transnational feminist journeys.
24. Queer and now: a roundtable forum with Dipika Jain, Akhil Kang, Sheena Malhotra, Hoshang Merchant, Shakthi Nataraj, Chayanika Shah, Nishant Shahani, Oishik Sircar and Ruth Vanita. Aneil Rallin
Index
9780367360955A
Sex role
Women's studies
305.30954 WOM