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South Asian feminisms : contemporary interventions /
This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : feminism, religion and the secular / Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose
- From Shahbano to Kausar bano : contextualizing the "Muslim woman" within a communalized polity / Flavia Agnes
- Global discourses, situated traditions, and Muslim women's agency in Pakistan / Amina Jamal
- Martial tales, right-wing Hindu women and "history-telling" in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen
- Of moments, not monuments : feminism and labor activism in post-national Sri Lanka / Sonali Perera
- Feminism, migration and labor : movement building in a globalized world / Anannya Bhattacharjee
- Uncomfortable alliances : women, peace and security in Sri Lanka / Vasuki Nesiah
- Feminist politics and maternalist agonism / Malathi De Alwis
- Witnessing as feminist intervention in India-administered Kashmir / Angana Chatterji
- Transnational politics of reading and the (un)making Taslima Nasreen / Lamia Karim
- At the intersection of gender and caste : rescripting rape in Dalit feminist narratives / Laura Brueck
- Subject to sex : a small history of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj / Anjali Arondekar
- Keeping sexuality on the agenda : the sex workers' movement in Bangladesh / Firdous Azim
- Politicizing political society : mobilization among sex workers in Sonagachi, India / Toorjo Ghose
- Queering approaches to sex, gender and labor in India : examining paths to sex worker unionism / Ashwini Sukthankar
- Hecklers to power : the waning of liberal rights and challenges to feminism in India / Ratna Kapur
- A global perspective on gender : what's South Asia got to do with it? / Mrinalini Sinha.