The Gendered Body in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Negotiation, Resistance, Struggle
Redaktion: Malhotra, Meenakshi; Johri, Rachana; Menon, Krishna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book situates the discourse on the gendered body within the rapidly transitioning South Asian socio-economic and cultural landscape. It critically analyses gender politics from different disciplinary perspectives including psychoanalysis, post structuralism, post colonialism and law among others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000905519
• Artikelnr.: 68481385

Autorenporträt

Meenakshi Malhotra teaches English in Hansraj College, Delhi University, India, and has edited two textbooks, Representing the Self and Claiming the I. Her recent publications include articles on life writing in Women's and Gender Studies in India: Crossings (2019), "Subjugated Knowledges and Emergent Voices" in Revolving around India(s) (2020) and "The Engendering of Hurt" in The State of Hurt (2016). Krishna Menon is Professor at the School of Human Studies and former Dean at the School of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi. Her research and teaching interests span political theory, Indian politics, critical music studies and gender studies. Her most recent co-edited book Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK (2020) is based on a UGC UKIERI Project with the University of Edinburgh of which she was the Principal Investigator. Rachana Johri is former Professor at the School of Human Studies and Director of the Centre for Psychotherapy and Clinical Research at Ambedkar University Delhi, India, where she teaches psychology, psychosocial studies and gender studies. Her recent publications include "New Bodies in Cities: Contested Technologies of the Self in Urban India" in Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self Vol 2; "Feminism in the Neo-Liberal University: Expanding Field or Shrinking Space" in Doing Feminisms in the Academy: Identity, Institutional Pedagogy and Critical Classrooms in India and the UK (2020) and "Crafting Spaces at New Intersections: In Search of Psychoanalytic Feminism for India" in Women's and Gender Studies in India: Crossings (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: NEGOTIATION- 1 Wearing Multiple Bodies: Towards a Psychosocial
Analysis of Women's Bodies in Globalized India- Rachana Johri 2 Mothering
the Daugther's Body: Narratives from Two Muslim Mothers in India-Syeda
Naghma Abidi 3 Conversations on the Covid 19 Pandemic Body: Violence and
Touch-Krishna Menon, Deepti Sachdev and Rukmini Sen 4 The Politics of
Un-Covering in India-Ambar Ahmad. Part II: STRUGGLE. 5 New Technologies and
Gender Reproducing Bodies Resisiting Bodies. Bijayalaxmi Nanda 6 Bodily
Integrity and the Politics of Tradition-Nayema Nasir 7 My Honor, My Crime-
Aysha Baqir 8 Ghosts in search of Bodies- Shalini Masih Part III:
RESISTANCE-9 Inside Girls Transgressing the hudd in Pakistani feminist
poetry-Anu Aneja 10 The Yakshi as the Monstruous Feminine Some
Representations from the Malayalam Speaking Region-Mamatha and Bindu 11
The Marginalised Tribal Body in Mahashweta Devi's Stories-Meenakshi
Malhotra 12 The Body in Submission An Offering to Feminism- Jaya Sharma
Part IV: PROTEST 13 Voicing Democracy and Reclaiming Citizenship: A
Dialogic Conversation about Shaheen Bagh-Meenakshi Gopinath, Krishna Menon,
Rukmini Sen and Niharika Banerjea 14 Campus Feminism and the Nation-State
Women Students' Leadership of the Anti-CAA-NRC Uprising in India-Tamanna
Basu 15 Rizia Rahman's Rokter Okshor Politics of Prostitution and the
Consciousness of Civic Society in Bangladesh-Sohana Manzoor Part V:
CRITIQUE 16 Disabled Body Pain and Vulnerability-Anita Ghai 17 Binarised
Bodies Towards a Politics of Inarticulacy Instability and Anonymity- Giti
Chandra 18 Knees and Feet Together Shoulders Back and Chest Out Embodying
the Hidden Curriculum through Women's Girlhood Narratives- Aakansha D'Cruz
Part VI: REPRESENTATIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS 19 Fragments of Memory The Thoa
Khalsa incident of 1947 in the Amritsar Partition Museum- Shuchi Kapila 20
Not an island unto themselves but a part of the main women voices from the
Sri Lankan conflict- Simran Chadha 21 On Umasangit- Nilofer Kaul 22
Affirmative Multiplicities: Towards an Anthropocene Theory of Corporeality-
Brijesh Rana