Contemporary Gender Formations in India

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.

Autorentext

Nandini Dhar is Associate Professor of Literary and Gender Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University at Sonipat, India. As a scholar, she is primarily concerned with the writing of neoliberal subjectivities in Global Anglophone late twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Her essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in journals such as Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, The Comparatist, A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, and several other edited anthologies. Nandini is also a poet and is the author of the full-length collection, Historians of Redundant Moments: A Novel in Verse (2016).

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Moving the Spatial Fulcrums of the Gendered Mobilizations of Our Times: Beyond #MeToo and LOSHA: An Introduction 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. The State and its Hyper-Masculinity Practices in India's "Northeast" : Articulations of Resistance in Contemporary Literary Writings from the "Northeast" 4. Is There A Desire In the Classroom? Part Two: Beyond the Specters of Sexual Violence: Gendered Bodies, Agency and Resistance 5. Whose Blood Is It Anyway? Locating Menstruation, Locating Women's Rights: Tracing the "New" Indian Feminist Subjectivity in Contemporary Times 6. Margins of Least Happiness: Understanding the Marginalized Women in Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 7. The Public Sphere and the Contemporary Women's Sociability Practices: A Study of the Bengali Adda 8. The Traffic in Bangalore: Thoughts on Sexuality, Class and Transport 9. Production of Neoliberal Subjectivity (ies) on the Shop-Floor: A Study of Women Shop-Floor Employees in a Shopping Mall 10. Gendering the Working-Class Subject: Notes 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 Sphere 12. Indian Cyberfeminism: Digital Liberation or Selective Outrage? 13. It Wasn't Really Really A Rape! Exploring Sexuality in a New Age Campus 14. The Evidence of Rape: Legitimacy of Legitimate Processes