Decolonising Gender in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780367703479 / Miękka / 2023 / 160 str.

Opis

This book compiles cutting-edge research on the challenging debates around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. It elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the European colonial project.

Spis treści

Introduction - Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective

Nazia Hussein and Saba Hussain

1. Prayers to Kāli: practicing radical numinosity

Anjana Raghavan

2. Re-animating Muslim women’s auto/biographical writings: Hayat-e-Ashraf as a palimpsest of educated selves

Shenila Khoja-Moolji

3. Pious capital: fashionable femininity and the predicament of financial freedom

Sarah Shroff

4. ‘Bordering’ life: denying the right to live before being born

Mira Tiwari

5. Menstruating women and celibate gods: a discourse analysis of women’s entry into Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India

Rashmi Kumari

6. The culinary as ‘border’: perspectives on food and femininity in the Indian subcontinent

Shyamasri Maji

7. A decolonial reading of the Punjabi (m)other in British Asian literature

Kavita Bhanot

8. The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: a reading of Bollywood’s ‘new women’

Saba Hussain and Nazia Hussain

O autorze

Nazia Hussein is a feminist sociologist specialising in gender, race and religion in the UK and South Asia. She is the author of Rethinking New Womanhood (2018) and New Muslim Women of Bangladesh (2021). Dr Hussein currently works as Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK.

Saba Hussain is a feminist sociologist specialising in gender, education and securitisation. She is the author of Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India (2019). She is Lecturer in Sociology and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University, UK.