Gendered Bodies, Social Exclusions

Contemporary Issues in Women's Studies
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-23471-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research

This book explores contemporary issues in women’s studies, focusing on the agency of marginalised and disenfranchised within political, cultural, and social spheres. It employs feminist pedagogies to articulate the multiple intersecting histories of class, caste, race, sexuality, disability and citizenship.

Using feminist perspectives, the book challenges the hegemonic and patriarchal logic of heteronormativity by contextualizing verbal abuse, violence in the private sphere, and the tensions between women's and men's rights across the continuum of family, community, and state. The essays in this volume examine the (im)possibilities of creating violence-free, caring, and affordable living space on the one hand, and seek to understand the gendered experience of violence in the context of migration, as well as cultural and sexual labour on the other. In addition to interrogating the cultural taboos that restrict women's autonomy and rights, the essays prioritise a diverse range of voices, including those of dancers in the entertainment industry, sexual and gender minorities, urban poor populations living in slums, and disabled women. They also document and archive the academic agency of staff and students working to address injustices within higher education institutions.

Part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series, this volume will be of significant interest to scholars and researchers in gender studies, women’s studies, history, political science, sociology, social anthropology, development studies, law, media studies and South Asia studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakraborty, Aishika

Dhawan, Nandita Banerjee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 (1940s–1980s)

3. In Good Hands: “Mobilisation” as a Collective Tool for Collective Praxis

4. Women’s 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 Kolkata’s 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 Women’s 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

Über Autor(innen)

Aishika Chakraborty is Professor and Director of the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, India.
Nandita Banerjee Dhawan is an Associate Professor at the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, India.