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050 00 $aHQ1735.3$b.S657 2012
082 00 $a305.420954$223
245 00 $aSouth Asian feminisms :$bcontemporary interventions /$cAnia Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose, eds.
260 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$c2012.
300 $avii, 422 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-405) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: feminism, religion and the secular / Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose -- From Shahbano to Kausar bano: contextualizing the "Muslim woman" within a communalised polity / Flavia Agnes -- Global discourses, situated traditions, and Muslim women's agency in Pakistan / Amina Jamal -- Martial tales, right-wing Hindu women and "history-telling" in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen -- Of moments, not monuments: feminism and labor activism in post-national Sri Lanka / Sonali Perera -- Feminism, migration and labor: movement building in a globalized world / Anannya Bhattacharjee -- Uncomfortable alliances: women, peace and security in Sri Lanka / Vasuki Nesiah -- Feminist politics and maternalist agonism / Malathi De Alwis -- Witnessing as feminist intervention in India-administered Kashmir / Angana Chatterji -- Transnational politics of reading and the (un)making Taslima Nasreen / Lamia Karim -- Rewriting the rape script in Dalit women's literature / Laura Brueck -- Subject to sex: a small history of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj / Anjali Arondekar -- Sex workers' movements and rights discourse / Firdous Azim-- "Civilizing" political society or "politicizing" civil society?: examining sex worker mobilization in Sonagachi, Calcutta / Toorjo Ghose -- Queering approaches to sex, gender and labor in India: examining paths to sex worker unionism / Ashwini Sukthankar -- Hecklers to power: the waning of human rights and challenges to feminist activism in South Asia / Ratna Kapur -- A global perspective on gender: what's South Asia got to do with it? / Mrinalini Sinha.
650 0 $aFeminism$zSouth Asia.
700 1 $aLoomba, Ania.
700 1 $aLukose, Ritty A.,$d1968-