Changing the Subject : Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India /

"Changing the Subject maps a rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual rights under conditions of global neoliberalism in India. Srila Roy shows how feminism is itself a form of power, a site of subject-making in its own right. Against concerns about the cooptation of feminism by neolib...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roy, Srila (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women in development.
Women > Economic conditions.
Queer theory.
Non-governmental organizations.
Neoliberalism.
Gay rights.
Feminism.
HISTORY > Asia > South > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Theorie queer.
Homosexuels > Droits > Inde.
Femmes > Inde > Conditions economiques > 21e siecle.
Organisations non gouvernementales > Inde.
Neo-liberalisme > Inde.
Femmes dans le developpement > Inde.
Feminisme > Inde.
Gay rights > India.
Women > India > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Non-governmental organizations > India.
Neoliberalism > India.
Women in development > India.
Feminism > India.
India.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:"Changing the Subject maps a rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual rights under conditions of global neoliberalism in India. Srila Roy shows how feminism is itself a form of power, a site of subject-making in its own right. Against concerns about the cooptation of feminism by neoliberalism, Roy provides a detailed ethnographic account of feminism's entanglement in technologies of power and the self. Roy traces the very different trajectories of two Calcutta-based feminist NGOs: Sappho for Equality (SFE), a grassroots queer feminist organization that shifted from a consciousness-raising group to a fully funded NGO by the time of Roy's fieldwork; and Janam, which emerged in the 1990s as a more clearly neoliberal organization focusing on empowerment and development technologies including microfinance. Despite their differences, Roy shows how both SFE and Janam are tied together with India's neoliberal economic restructuring. Further, she explores the ways contemporary "milliennial feminisms" and (queer) feminist activism-NGO-based or otherwise-are haunted by older modes of governing subaltern subjects in the Global South"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781478023517

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