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Subject(s)

• Feminism—South Asia [Browse]
• Women—Government policy—South Asia [Browse]
• Women—South Asia—Social conditions [Browse]
• Women—South Asia—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Women's rights—South Asia [Browse]

Related name

• Fernandes, Leela [Browse]

Series

Routledge handbooks [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again? / Mrinalini Sinha
• Construction of Gender in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The Writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan
• Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations, Refugee Women and Partition Studies / Paulomi Chakraborty
• Gender and Citizenship in India / Anupama Roy
• Gender and Democratic Politics in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin
• Law, Sex Work and Activism in India / Prabha Kotiswaran
• The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence / Vrinda Narain
• Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama
• The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context / Saadia Toor
• Gender, Media and Popular Culture in a Global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri
• Death and Family: Queer Archives of the Space Between / Naisargi N. Dave
• Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered Constellations / Ann Grodzins Gold
• Gender and Property in Neoliberal Middle-class Kolkata: Of Untold Riches and Unruly Homes / Henrike Donner
• Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
• An Intersection of Marxism and Feminism among India's Informal Workers: A Second Marriage? / Rina Agarwala
• Gendered Opportunity and Constraint in India's IT Industry: The Problem of Too Much 'Headweight' / Smitha Radhakrishnan
• A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary India / Priti Ramamurthy
• NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective / Lamia Karim
• Gender and Education in South Asia / Sangeeta Kamat
• Sex Ratios and Sex Selection in India: History and the Present / Mary E. John
• Dalit Women Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the 'Quintessentially Marginal' / Manuela Ciotti
• Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship / Moon Charania
• Mapping Women's Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation / Rukmini Sen.

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ISBN

• 9780415523530 (hardback)
• 0415523532 (hardback)

LCCN

2013028134

OCLC

855491720

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