In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming
terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions
of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India's liberalization
were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development
and NGOs signaled the co-optation and depoliticization of struggles
for women's rights, even as they amplified the visibility and
vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of
activist and NGO work around issues of gender and sexuality through
a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one
working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other
on rural women's empowerment. Tracing changes in feminist
governmentality that were entangled in transnational neoliberalism,
Roy shows how historical and highly local feminist currents shaped
contemporary queer and nonqueer neoliberal feminisms. The interplay
between historic techniques of activist governance and queer
feminist governmentality's focus on changing the self offers a new
way of knowing feminism-both as always already co-opted and as a
transformative force in the world.
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