This book compiles cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. It elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project.
This book compiles cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. It elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project.
Nazia Hussein is a feminist sociologist specialising in gender, race and religion in the UK and South Asia. She is the author of Rethinking New Womanhood (2018) and New Muslim Women of Bangladesh (2021). Dr Hussein currently works as Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. Saba Hussain is a feminist sociologist specialising in gender, education and securitisation. She is the author of Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India (2019). She is Lecturer in Sociology and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University, UK.
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Introduction - Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective Nazia Hussein and Saba Hussain 1. Prayers to K¿li: practicing radical numinosity Anjana Raghavan 2. Re-animating Muslim women's auto/biographical writings: Hayat-e-Ashraf as a palimpsest of educated selves Shenila Khoja-Moolji 3. Pious capital: fashionable femininity and the predicament of financial freedom Sarah Shroff 4. 'Bordering' life: denying the right to live before being born Mira Tiwari 5. Menstruating women and celibate gods: a discourse analysis of women's entry into Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India Rashmi Kumari 6. The culinary as 'border': perspectives on food and femininity in the Indian subcontinent Shyamasri Maji 7. A decolonial reading of the Punjabi (m)other in British Asian literature Kavita Bhanot 8. The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: a reading of Bollywood's 'new women' Saba Hussain and Nazia Hussain
Introduction - Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective Nazia Hussein and Saba Hussain 1. Prayers to K¿li: practicing radical numinosity Anjana Raghavan 2. Re-animating Muslim women's auto/biographical writings: Hayat-e-Ashraf as a palimpsest of educated selves Shenila Khoja-Moolji 3. Pious capital: fashionable femininity and the predicament of financial freedom Sarah Shroff 4. 'Bordering' life: denying the right to live before being born Mira Tiwari 5. Menstruating women and celibate gods: a discourse analysis of women's entry into Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India Rashmi Kumari 6. The culinary as 'border': perspectives on food and femininity in the Indian subcontinent Shyamasri Maji 7. A decolonial reading of the Punjabi (m)other in British Asian literature Kavita Bhanot 8. 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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