Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rajan, Gita; Desai, Jigna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This anthology of multidisciplinary essays is the first to look at various transnational feminist encounters that are occurring in the terrain of the popular in South Asia. The energy driving this innovative vision is harnessed using new perspectives gleaned from the humanities in exploring gender-focused social justice work that leads to sustaining the gains of global endeavors.

This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 147
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135701598
• Artikelnr.: 58401661

Autorenporträt

Gita Rajan is Professor of English and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Faith and Public Life at Fairfield University, USA. Her research interests include South Asian literature and visual culture, feminist ethics, and advocacy models for sustainable globalization. Jigna Desai is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, USA. Her research interests include Asian American, postcolonial, queer, disability, and diasporic cultural studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Transnational Feminism and Global Advocacy in South Asia Gita Rajan and
Jigna Desai 2. In search of the choreographies of daily life and struggle
Ananya Chatterjea 3. Churnings of a movement: Sangtin's diary Richa Nagar
and Richa Singh 4. Citizenship and dissent: South Asian Muslim youth in the
US after 9/11 Sunaina Maira 5. Global nationalisms, pastoral identities:
Association for India's Development (AID) negotiates transnational activism
Kumarini Silva 6. Impact of tsunami in the East - Muslim women's
perspective Shreen Saroor 7. Bending bodies, borders and desires in Bapsi
Sidhwa's Cracking India and Deepa Mehta's Earth Rani Neutill 8. Eat, pray,
love mimic: Female citizenship and otherness R. Diyah Larasati 9.
Grassroots Texts: Ethnographic Ruptures and Transnational Feminist
Imaginaries Piya Chatterjee