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Author Dhar, Nandini

Title Contemporary Gender Formations in India In-Between Conformity, Dissent and Affect
Published Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (367 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Moving the Spatial Fulcrums of the Gendered Mobilisations of Our Times: Beyond #MeToo and LoSHA -- Part One The Complicated Imaginaries of Sexual Violence: Gendered Bodies, Public Spaces and the Affective Registers -- 1 I Am as Big as the City I Walk: Documenting Maya Rao's The Walk -- 2 Ain't We Women? The 'Media Amnesia' on Women's Voices in the Northeast
3 Hypermasculine Practices of the State and Literary Articulations of Resistance: Contemporary Literary Writings From Nagaland and Mizoram -- 4 Is There a 'Desire' in the Classroom? Or, Sex and Scholarship -- Part Two Beyond the Specters of Sexual Violence: Gendered Bodies, Agency and Resistance -- 5 Whose Blood Is It Anyway? Locating Menstruation, Women's Rights: Tracing the New Indian Feminist Subjectivity in Contemporary Times -- 6 Margins of Least Happiness: Understanding the Marginalised Women in Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
7 Young Bengali Women's Sociability Practices in the Public Sphere: A Study of the Bengali Āddā -- 8 The Traffic in Bangalore: A Reflection on Sexuality, Class and Infrastructure -- 9 Production of Neoliberal Subjectivity(ies) on the Shop Floor: A Study of Women Shop-floor Employees in a Shopping Mall in Hyderabad -- 10 Gendering the Working-Class Subject: Reflections on Few Contemporary Struggles -- Part Three Realms of Corporeality, Collectivity and Resistance: Bringing It Back to Sexual Violence, Hashtag Movements and Their Everyday Ramifications
11 Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? New Femininities in Indian Digital Space -- 12 Indian Cyberfeminism: Digital Liberation or Selective Outrage? -- 13 It Wasn't Really Rape: Exploring Sexuality in a New-Age Campus -- 14 The Evidence of Rape: Legitimacy of Legitimate Processes -- Index
Summary The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape case and the ensuing massive protests in December 2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Families -- India -- Case studies
Married women -- Employment -- India
Gender identity -- India
People with disabilities -- India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781003818236
1003818234