Gender Place And Identity Of South Asian Women

Author : Pourya Asl, Moussa
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668436288

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Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women by Pourya Asl, Moussa Pdf

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.

Author : Nirmal Puwar,Parvati Raghuram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000183702

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South Asian Women in the Diaspora by Nirmal Puwar,Parvati Raghuram Pdf

South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are ‘performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with ‘indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power.

Author : Kalwant Bhopal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429851322

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Gender, 'Race' and Patriarchy by Kalwant Bhopal Pdf

The book offers one of the first detailed studies of South Asian women, it provides new empirical data on the issues apparent in South Asian women's lives by 'giving voice' to a group of women who would otherwise remain silent. It is based upon an ethnographic study of a small South Asian community in an inner city. The book offers a new and compelling account of South Asian women, as well as focussing on the ways in which gender and 'race' interact in women’s lives. The book offers an important theoretical contribution to the area of feminist theory. The concept of patriarchy is contested and reworked and applied to the study of South Asian women and their cultural experiences. In this sense, practices such as arranged marriages, dowries, domestic labour and domestic finance are analyzed as different influences of patriarchy inside the household, as well as education and the labour market as influences of patriarchy outside the household.

Author : Jaspal Kaur Singh
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : African diaspora in literature
ISBN : 9781552382455

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Representation and Resistance by Jaspal Kaur Singh Pdf

Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.

Author : Ania Loomba,Ritty A. Lukose
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351795

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South Asian Feminisms by Ania Loomba,Ritty A. Lukose Pdf

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.

Author : Shaminder Takhar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135009601

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Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency by Shaminder Takhar Pdf

This book examines how South Asian women’s collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical research to demonstrate how women are empowered to resist domination. The historically racialized image of the South Asian woman as lacking in political agency is challenged through their long history of activism on the Indian subcontinent. The creation of "critical spaces" by South Asian women in the diaspora places them as active agents who have successfully influenced social policy on important issues such as forced marriage, domestic violence and sexuality. The engagement with the empirical data demonstrates the significance and impact of race, racism, sexism and religion on the lives of the women. The book brings to the fore the pursuit of equality, rights and justice, including multiculturalism and the often debated emancipatory role of religion.

Author : Patricia Jeffery,Amrita Basu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136051586

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Appropriating Gender by Patricia Jeffery,Amrita Basu Pdf

Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also asserted their gender, class, caste, and religious identities; contrary to the hopes of nation states, they have often challenged state policies and practices. Through a comparative South Asia perspective, Appropriating Gender explores the varied meanings and expressions of gender identity through time, by location, and according to political context. The first work to focus on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context, Appropriating Gender is an outstanding contribution to the field of gender studies.

Author : Leela Fernandes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000471281

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Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia by Leela Fernandes Pdf

This new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia. The Handbook covers the central contributions that have defi ned this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives spanning both the humanities and social sciences, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters, thus adding new areas of scholarship. The Handbook is organized thematically into five major parts: • Historical formations and theoretical framings • Law, citizenship and the nation • Representations of culture, place, identity • Labor and the economy • Inequality, activism and the state The Handbook illustrates the ways in which scholarship on gender has contributed to a rethink of theoretical concepts and empirical understandings of contemporary South Asia. Finally, it focuses on new areas of inquiry that have been opened up through a focus on gender and the intersections between gender and categories, such as caste, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. This timely study is essential reading for scholars who research and teach on South Asia as well as for scholars in related interdisciplinary fields that focus on women and gender from comparative and transnational perspectives.

Author : Saraswati Raju
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0198072570

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GENDERED GEOGRAPHIES by Saraswati Raju Pdf

This volume is an exposition on the particularities of gender in the context of geographical concepts of 'space' and 'time'. It discusses the impact of global processes on the idea of locality and includes case studies from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.

Author : Ahonaa Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000330199

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Gender, Sexuality, Decolonization by Ahonaa Roy Pdf

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.

Author : Renuka M. Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X004142900

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Representations of Gender, Democracy, and Identity Politics in Relation to South Asia by Renuka M. Sharma Pdf

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Author : Amita Handa
Publisher : Women's Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889612390

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Caught Between Omissions by Amita Handa Pdf

In this incisive work, author Amita Handa investigates how young women negotiate their identities across various cultural/community/ethnic boundaries and historical domains. She examines the ways in which gender, race, and sexuality work together in constructing and imagining the narratives of community and nation.

Author : Ruvani Ranasinha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137403056

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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction by Ruvani Ranasinha Pdf

This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka – as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary focus on diasporic writers’ metropolitan contexts, illuminates how these transnational, female-authored literary texts challenge national assumptions and considers the ways in which this new configuration of transnational, feminist writers produces a postcolonial feminist discourse, which differs from Anglo-American feminism.

Author : Nafhesa Ali
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031504624

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Older South Asian Migrant Women’s Experiences of Ageing in the UK by Nafhesa Ali Pdf

Author : Nita Kumar
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0813915228

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Women as Subjects by Nita Kumar Pdf

Women as Subjects affords a rare opportunity to consider the changing identity and status of women in India today- how they view themselves and how they are viewed- through the current work of seven scholars- anthropologists, historians, and sociologists from India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These essays combined with Nita Kumar's substantial theoretical introduction, illustrate the overall problem of women's subjectivity extraordinarily well and serve to question, modify, and adapt Western-based feminist theory and Eurocentric postmodern theory, building a bridge both to non-South Asian feminist work and to nonfeminist South Asian work.