Decolonising Gender in South Asia

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100036013X
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Book Synopsis Decolonising Gender in South Asia by : Nazia Hussein

Download or read book Decolonising Gender in South Asia written by Nazia Hussein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. The book elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project. Following Walter Mignolo, the book calls for epistemic disobedience using border thinking as the necessary condition for thinking decolonially. Borders in this case are conceptualised not just as geographical borders of nation states, they also signify the borders of modern/colonial world, epistemic and ontological orders that the gendered and racialised populations of ex-colonies inhabit. Dwelling, thinking and writing from these borders create conditions of epistemic disobedience to coloniality/modernity discourses of the West. The contributors to this collection, all ethnic minority women from South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, write from and about these borders that challenge the colonial universality of thinking about gender. They are writing from, and with, subalternised racial/ethnic/sexual spaces and bodies located geographically in South Asia and South Asian diasporic contexts. In this way, when coloniality/modernity is shaping universalist understandings of gender, we are able to use a broader canon of thought to produce a more pluriversal understanding of the world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000330192
Total Pages : 285 pages
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Book Synopsis Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization by : Ahonaa Roy

Download or read book Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization written by Ahonaa Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora. It reconceives sexual representation from the point of view of the theoretical, political and empirical trajectories of decolonization, provincialization and neoliberalism to look at the role of historical contingency, postcolonial sexual politics and gender and sexual diversity. The volume brings together anthropological, historical, material and political analyses around South Asian sexual politics by exploring a range of themes, including culture, class, ethnicity, identity, intersectionality, migration, borders, diaspora, modernity and cosmopolitanism across various local, regional and global contexts. By using southern/non-Western and subaltern theorizations of gender and sexuality, the book discusses South Asian sexualities through issues such as the sexual politics of indeterminacy; sexual subculture, iconography and political decision-making; religious identity; queer South Asian diaspora; decolonizing the postcolonial body; sexual politics, gender and feminist debates; discrimination, and socio-political violence; the political economy of empowerment; and critical appropriation of the 377 Indian Penal Code. It also builds forms of dialogues to bridge the gap between academic and development practitioners. With diverse case studies and a fresh theoretical framework, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of South Asian studies, gender studies, sexuality studies, sociology and social anthropology, political studies, diaspora studies, postcolonial and global south studies.

South Asian Feminisms

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082235179X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis South Asian Feminisms by : Ania Loomba

Download or read book South Asian Feminisms written by Ania Loomba and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women

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Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668436280
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women by : Pourya Asl, Moussa

Download or read book Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women written by Pourya Asl, Moussa and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region, drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations. Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender, place, and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization, and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative, spatial mobility, and diasporic women’s lives, this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, researchers, activists, government officials, business leaders, academicians, feminist organizations, sociologists, and researchers.

Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia

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ISBN 13 : 9780415523530
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia by : Leela Fernandes

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia written by Leela Fernandes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this overview of gender, women, and sexuality covers historical formations of gender and the significance of colonialism and nationalism; law, citizenship and the nation; representations of culture, place, identity; labor and the economy; and inequality, activism and the state.

Gender in South Asia

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107435986
Total Pages : 239 pages
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Book Synopsis Gender in South Asia by : Subhadra Mitra Channa

Download or read book Gender in South Asia written by Subhadra Mitra Channa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. There is an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers.

Queer Asia

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786995832
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Book Synopsis Queer Asia by : J. Daniel Luther

Download or read book Queer Asia written by J. Daniel Luther and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on the work of the annual Queer Asia conference, which the editors helped to establish, this collection represents the most comprehensive work to date on queer studies in an Asian context. Featuring case studies and original research from across the continent, covering the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Asian diasporas, the collection offers a genuinely pan-Asian perspective which places queer Asian identities and movements in dialogue with each other, rather than within a Western framework. By considering how queerness is imagined within plural Asian experiences and contexts, the contributors show a that re-envisioning of 'queer' through Asian perspectives has the potential to challenge existing discourses and debates in the wider field of contemporary gender, sexuality, and queer studies.

Gender, 'race' and Patriarchy

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Book Synopsis Gender, 'race' and Patriarchy by : Kalwant Bhopal

Download or read book Gender, 'race' and Patriarchy written by Kalwant Bhopal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides new empirical data on the ways in which gender and 'race' interact in South Asian women's lives. It offers a greater understanding of the concept of patriarchy as experienced by South Asian women and argues that women's cultural experiences (such as arranged marriages and dowries) influence the different forms of patriarchy they experience.

Rhetoric and Reality

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Publisher : School of Oriental & African Studies University of London
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Rhetoric and Reality by : Avril Ann Powell

Download or read book Rhetoric and Reality written by Avril Ann Powell and published by School of Oriental & African Studies University of London. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised version of papers presented at the two-day Workshop on Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia, held a Dhaka in December 2002

Gender in South Asia

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ISBN 13 : 9781316153581
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Book Synopsis Gender in South Asia by : Subhadra Channa

Download or read book Gender in South Asia written by Subhadra Channa and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses gender in terms of models generalizing upon received wisdom from historical and cultural sources and lived realities"--Provided by publisher.

States of Trauma

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Book Synopsis States of Trauma by : Piya Chatterjee

Download or read book States of Trauma written by Piya Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last couple of decades, violence as an analytic category has loomed large in the historical, literary, and anthropological scholarship of South Asia. The challenge of thinking violence in its gendered incarnations fully and in all its complexity is not only theoretical or critical but also irreducibly ethical and political, given the proliferation of civil wars, pogroms and riots, fundamentalist movements, insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, and new technologies of violence and injury. All of these simultaneously feature and help constitute gendered actors and gendered scripts of violence. States of Trauma seeks to examine this terrain by staging a set of questions. How are we to think about the moral charge that accrues to violence? What is the relationship between violence and non-violence? In considering the moral and affective economy of violence, how may we speak of the seductions of the idioms and practices of militarism and sexualized violence for women? How are these seductions/pleasures distinct from those proffered to men, if indeed they are distinct?

Embodied Violence

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Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Embodied Violence by : Kumari Jayawardena

Download or read book Embodied Violence written by Kumari Jayawardena and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Violence is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies. Focusing on communal violence, it explores how such violence reconfigures women's experiences, facilitates the formation of particular identities and the dissemination of specific ideologies and how it positions women vis-a-vis their communities as well as the State. A distinguished cast of contributors explores the relationship between ideals of motherhood, tradition, community and racial purity, and uncovers the ways in which women's bodies become the recording surface of repressive cultural practices and symbolic humiliations.

Decolonisation and the Politics of Transition in South Asia

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ISBN 13 : 9788125062523
Total Pages : 440 pages
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Book Synopsis Decolonisation and the Politics of Transition in South Asia by : Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa

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Decolonization and Afro-Feminism

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ISBN 13 : 9781988832494
Total Pages : 430 pages
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Book Synopsis Decolonization and Afro-Feminism by : Sylvia Tamale

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Queer Asia

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Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781786995810
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Book Synopsis Queer Asia by : J. Daniel Luther

Download or read book Queer Asia written by J. Daniel Luther and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens. Building on the work of the annual Queer Asia conference, which the editors helped to establish, this collection represents the most comprehensive work to date on queer studies in an Asian context. Featuring case studies and original research from across the continent, covering the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Asian diasporas, the collection offers a genuinely pan-Asian perspective which places queer Asian identities and movements in dialogue with each other, rather than within a Western framework. By considering how queerness is imagined within plural Asian experiences and contexts, the contributors show a that re-envisioning of 'queer' through Asian perspectives has the potential to challenge existing discourses and debates in the wider field of contemporary gender, sexuality, and queer studies.

Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary

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ISBN 13 : 9780822368175
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary by : Aren Z. Aizura

Download or read book Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary written by Aren Z. Aizura and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is at stake in acknowledging transgender studies' Anglophone roots in the global North and West? What kinds of politics might emerge from challenging the assumption that biological sex--or the categories "man" and "woman"--is stable and self-evident across time, space, and culture? This collection asks how trans scholarship can decolonize, rather than reproduce, dominant imaginaries of sexuality and gender. The issue highlights roadblocks as well as unexpected openings in the global circulation of trans politics and culture. A First Nations scholar recovers lost tribal knowledge of non-Eurocentric gender. A Thai trans filmmaker negotiates culturally incommensurable categories of self. Two contributors consider what is lost as the term transgender replaces local, vernacular categories of difference in India. A study of genderqueer childhood in Peru disrupts colonial ethnographer-informant roles, while another author critiques the colonialist ethnography on the sarimbavy, gender nonconforming categories of Madagascar. Another essay follows the global commodity chain of synthetic hormones to explore the biopolitics of transgender bodies and race. Finally, a roundtable discussion among a transnational panel of activists, culture makers, and scholars offers perspectives on decolonizing the transgender imaginary that range from the celebratory to the cynical.

Disability in South Asia

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Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789352807079
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Disability in South Asia by : Anita Ghai

Download or read book Disability in South Asia written by Anita Ghai and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disability in South Asia: Knowledge & Experience presents a comprehensive approach to various aspects of disability in South Asia. A critical work on disability studies, this book explores the full complexity of disability in its multi-layered, interactional dynamics. The book imparts understanding of the social, political and cultural construction of disability as opposed to the traditional perception of disability in terms of medical condition, biological trait, rehabilitation and special education. It focuses on foregrounding disability across various areas including education, law and sociology, critically exploring the interaction of gender and disability, and challenging the separation between theory and practice as well as academia and activism. The book shows how the inclusion of a disability perspective enriches scholarship by contributing to the understanding of social marginalization, oppression and the perception of difference. It highlights the lived experiences of people with disabilities to help readers develop a nuanced comprehension of disability.