Aneja, Anu(ed.) <br/><br/>
Women's and Gender Studies in India: crossings 

 - New York  Routledge  2019 
 - 385p. 
<br/><br/> Part I Stirrings, across time and place<br/>1. (How) ‘to be or not to be’: women’s and gender studies in India today.<br/>2. Feminist crossings in time and space: the question of culture.<br/>3. Dynamics of the women’s movement and women’s studies in India: an evolutionary perspective.<br/>4. Intersections of gender, caste and class: agenda building in the Indian women’s Movement.<br/>5. Beyond essentialism: ecofeminism and the ‘friction’ between gender and ecology.<br/>6. Locating disability in the Indian women’s movement.<br/>Part II Interleaves: conceiving theories, theorizing identities<br/>7. Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn.<br/>8. Masculinity, sexuality and culture: entangled narratives.<br/>9. Pride and prejudice: intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events.<br/>10. (Dis)ability, gender and identity: crossing boundaries.<br/>11. Gender, caste and Indian feminism: the case of the Women’s Reservation Bill.<br/>12. Bharat Mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject.<br/>Part III In-disciplinarities<br/>13. Feminism across disciplines: from Plato’s Academy to the streets of Delhi.<br/>14. Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women’s and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings.<br/>15. Transgender studies in India: locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites.<br/>16. Crafting spaces at new intersections: in search of psychoanalytic feminism for India.<br/>17. (Dis)respectable selfies: honour, surveillance and the undisciplined girl.<br/>Part IV Entwining feminism and pedagogy: inside the institution<br/>18. Working through the women’s and gender studies teaching machine: notes on the way forward.<br/>19. Blending in: reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education.<br/>20. Disrupting the gender binary: queering feminist pedagogy.<br/>Part V Conversations across borders<br/>21. Transnational feminist crossings: on neo-liberalism and radical critique.<br/>22. Globalization and Third Way theories: the beleaguered family and the marginalization of women.<br/>23. When feminists sidestep the nation state: transnational feminist journeys.<br/>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<br/>Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780367360955A 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex role<br/>Women's studies
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.30954 WOM