This book examines contemporary issues in women’s studies and the agency of the marginalised and disenfranchised in the political, cultural, and social spheres. It uses feminist pedagogies to articulate multiple intersecting histories of class, caste, race, sexuality, disability and citizenship.
Employing feminist perspectives, the book challenges the hegemonic and patriarchal logic of heteronormativity as it contextualizes verbal abuse, violence in the ‘private’ space, and tensions between women's and men's rights along the continuum between family, community, and state. The essays in this volume examine the (im)possibilities of a violence-free, caring and affordable living space on the one hand, and aim to comprehend the gendered experience of violence at the confluence of migration, cultural and sexual labour on the other. In addition to exploring the cultural taboos that restrict women's autonomy and rights, they strive to prioritise a range of voices by focusing on dancers in the entertainment industry, sexual and gender minorities, urban poor people living in slums, and disabled women. They also document and archive the academic agency of staff and students as they work to rectify the unjust conditions of higher education institutions.
Part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, women’s studies, history, political science, sociology, social anthropology, development studies, law, media studies and South Asia studies.
This book examines contemporary issues in women’s studies and the agency of the marginalised and disenfranchised in the political, cultural, and social spheres. It uses feminist pedagogies to articulate multiple intersecting histories of class, caste, race, sexuality, disability and citizenship.
Introduction
Part 1: Cultures of Exclusion, Narratives of Protest
1. Sweat and Salt on Broken Skin: Examining the Culture of Silence around
Sexual Harassment in Classical Indian Dance Pedagogy
2. Tonite and Everynite: Gender, Class, and Performance in Calcutta
Nightlife (1940s1980s)
3. In Good Hands: Mobilisation as a Collective Tool for Collective Praxis
4. Womens Assertion and a New Space for Citizenship: Shaheen Bagh
Part 2: (Im)pure Bodies, (Il)legitimate Realities
5. Outside the Frame: Disabled Women in Urban Spaces
6. Against the Odds: Gendered Politics of Labour, Infrastructure, and
Claim-Making in Kolkatas Poor Localities
7. Gendered Embodiment: The Everyday Lived Experiences of Transmen
8. Reproductive Empowerment and Self-Care: In Context of Menstrual and
Contraceptive Choices in India
Part 3: Violent Institutions, Feminist Conversations
9. Contextualizing Multiculturalism and Womens Citizenship Rights in India
10. Birangona to Muktijoddha: The Juxtaposed Burden of Victimhood,
Valorisation, and Agency
11. Violence, Home, and Care Networks: Contemporary Feminist Explorations
12. The Invisible Violence of Words, Gesture, and Silence: A Feminist
Exploration of Linguistic Abuse
13. Escape from Marriages: Feminisms and Anti-Feminisms in India
14. Doing Feminism: Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Supportive Practices and Higher
Educational Institutions
Part 4: Spaces of Assertion, Politics of Belonging
15. Mobilising Higher Education and Hope: Gender, Stigma, and
Intergenerational Mobility
16. Enabling and Constraining Conditions Impacting Academic Agency to Promote
Sustainable Transformation in South African and Indian Universities
17. Under Conditions of Intersecting Injustices: Recognising Multifaceted
Politics of Representation and Authorship in Post-Colonial Academia
18. Black Decolonial Feminism Is For Everyone: Feeling Our Way towards
Intersectional Antiracism on the Way to Decolonisation in Universities
Index
Aishika Chakraborty is Professor and Director of the School of Womens Studies, Jadavpur University, India.
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan is an Associate Professor at the School of Womens Studies, Jadavpur University, India.
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