Binding: Paperback
Description: This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women's and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories their interlinkages and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women's and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory; gender caste and class; feminist masculinity queer and transgender studies; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis literature aesthetics cinema new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to draw upon and transform these areas in national and international contexts. This book will be useful to students teachers and researchers in women's studies gender studies cultural studies queer studies and South Asian studies.
Title: Womens And Gender Studies In India Crossings
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367202347
Pages: 386 Pages, 2 Tables, Black And White; 1 Line Drawings, Black And White; 18 Halftones, Black And Whit
Publication Date: 5/7/2019
Category: Gender Studies: Women