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This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women's and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women's and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionality in feminist activism and theory; gender, caste and class; feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies; femininity and masculinity; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, cinema, new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to transform these areas and explore international contexts. This book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers in women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, queer studies and South Asian studies. *** *** Introduction: women’s and gender Studies at the crossroads. Anu Aneja *** Part I Stirrings, across time and place *** 1. (How) ‘to be or not to be’: women’s and gender studies in India today. Sharon Pillai *** 2. Feminist crossings in time and space: the question of culture. Mary E. John *** 3. Dynamics of the women’s movement and women’s studies in India: an evolutionary perspective. Vibhuti Patel *** 4. Intersections of gender, caste and class: agenda building in the Indian women’s Movement. Mangala Subramaniam and Preethi Krishnan *** 5. Beyond essentialism: ecofeminism and the ‘friction’ between gender and ecology. Anindita Majumdar *** 6. Locating disability in the Indian women’s movement. Anita Ghai *** Part II Interleaves: conceiving theories, theorizing identities *** 7. Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn. Anu Aneja *** 8. Masculinity, sexuality and culture: entangled narratives. Sanjay Srivastava *** 9. Pride and prejudice: intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events. Namita Paul *** 10. (Dis)ability, gender and identity: crossing boundaries. Shubhangi Vaidya. *** 11. Gender, caste and Indian feminism: the case of the Women’s Reservation Bill. Vrinda Marwah *** 12. Bharat Mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject. Karen Gabriel *** Part III In-disciplinarities *** 13. Feminism across disciplines: from Plato’s Academy to the streets of Delhi. Deepti Priya Mehrotra *** 14. Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women’s and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings. Meenakshi Malhotra *** 15. Transgender studies in India: locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites. Akshaya K. Rath *** 16. Crafting spaces at new intersections: in search of psychoanalytic feminism for India. Rachana Johri *** 17. (Dis)respectable selfies: honour, surveillance and the undisciplined girl. Sujatha Subramanian *** Part IV Entwining feminism and pedagogy: inside the institution *** 18. Working through the women’s and gender studies teaching machine: notes on the way forward. Sharon Pillai *** 19. Blending in: reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education. Anu Aneja *** 20. Disrupting the gender binary: queering feminist pedagogy. Leena Pujari *** Part V Conversations across borders *** 21. Transnational feminist crossings: on neo-liberalism and radical critique. Chandra Talpade Mohanty *** 22. Globalization and Third Way theories: the beleaguered family and the marginalization of women. Taisha Abraham *** 23. When feminists sidestep the nation state: transnational feminist journeys. Krishna Menon *** 24. Queer and now: a roundtable forum with Dipika Jain, Akhil Kang, Sheena Malhotra, Hoshang Merchant, Shakthi Nataraj, Chayanika Shah, Nishant Shahani, Oishik Sircar and Ruth Vanita. Aneil Rallin *** |