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Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length
compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debates
around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. The
book elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside
the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the
European colonial project. Following Walter Mignolo, the book calls
for epistemic disobedience using border thinking as the necessary
condition for thinking decolonially. Borders in this case are
conceptualised not just as geographical borders of nation states,
they also signify the borders of modern/colonial world, epistemic
and ontological orders that the gendered and racialised populations
of ex-colonies inhabit. Dwelling, thinking and writing from these
borders create conditions of epistemic disobedience to
coloniality/modernity discourses of the West. The contributors to
this collection, all ethnic minority women from South Asia and the
South Asian diaspora, write from and about these borders that
challenge the colonial universality of thinking about gender. They
are writing from, and with, subalternised racial/ethnic/sexual
spaces and bodies located geographically in South Asia and South
Asian diasporic contexts. In this way, when coloniality/modernity
is shaping universalist understandings of gender, we are able to
use a broader canon of thought to produce a more pluriversal
understanding of the world. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.
This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and
religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social
locations and people's sense of belonging within these spaces and
temporalities. It offers an alternative and innovative theoretical
framework - new womanhood - for studying middle-class, urban,
educated, professional women in South Asia. The book places
respectable femininity at the centre of the construction and
performance of new womanhood in Bangladesh: a complex and
heterogeneous construction of womanhood in relation to women's
negotiations with public and private sphere roles and cultural
norms of female propriety. It establishes new women as part of the
neoliberal middle class as they construct their class identity as a
status group, claiming inter-class and intra-class distinction from
other women. It also explains how new womanhood is legitimized by
alternative and multiple practices of respectability, varying
according to women's age, stage of life, profession, household
setting and experience of living in Western countries. Finally, as
new women forge alternative forms of respectability, theirs is not
a straightforward abandonment of old structures of respectability;
rather they substitute, conceal or legitimize particular practices
of respectability in particular fields. While these new women's
gains are vested in the self, rather than a wider feminist
politics, they have the potential to positively influence the
terrain of possibilities for other women. Finally, through a study
of cosmopolitan third world women who are part of a new and
potentially powerful social group who occupy a privileged position
in the society they live in, the book critiques Western feminist
writing and challenges binary social construction of the 'Muslim
woman' either as victims of patriarchal culture and religion or as
a danger to Western liberalism, developing an understanding of
cosmopolitan Muslim women's classed gender identity as a struggle
against classifications in the neoliberal times. It is the first
book-length project of its kind to provide an understanding of the
concept of new women in the Global South, which will be of interest
to academics in the fields of sociology, gender studies, feminist
theory, postcolonialism, inequality studies, cultural theory,
development studies and South Asian Studies.
Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New
Womanhood effectively introduces a 'new' wave of gender research
from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the
world. The volume conceptualises 'new womanhood' as a complex,
heterogeneous and intersectional identity. By deconstructing
classification systems and highlighting women's everyday ongoing
negotiations with boundaries of social categories, the book
reconfigures the concept of 'new woman' as a symbolic identity
denoting 'modern' femininity at the intersection of gender, class,
culture, sexuality and religion in South Asia. The collection maps
new sites and expressions on women and gender studies around
nationhood, women's rights, transnational feminist solidarity, 'new
girlhoods ', aesthetic and sexualised labour, respectability and
'modernity', LGBT discourses, domestic violence and 'new'
feminisms. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars
across a range of disciplines including gender studies, sociology,
education, media and cultural studies, literature, anthropology,
history, development studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian
studies.
Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length
compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debates
around decolonial thought and gender studies in South Asia. The
book elaborates on various ways of thinking about gender outside
the epistemic frame of coloniality/modernity that is bound to the
European colonial project. Following Walter Mignolo, the book calls
for epistemic disobedience using border thinking as the necessary
condition for thinking decolonially. Borders in this case are
conceptualised not just as geographical borders of nation states,
they also signify the borders of modern/colonial world, epistemic
and ontological orders that the gendered and racialised populations
of ex-colonies inhabit. Dwelling, thinking and writing from these
borders create conditions of epistemic disobedience to
coloniality/modernity discourses of the West. The contributors to
this collection, all ethnic minority women from South Asia and the
South Asian diaspora, write from and about these borders that
challenge the colonial universality of thinking about gender. They
are writing from, and with, subalternised racial/ethnic/sexual
spaces and bodies located geographically in South Asia and South
Asian diasporic contexts. In this way, when coloniality/modernity
is shaping universalist understandings of gender, we are able to
use a broader canon of thought to produce a more pluriversal
understanding of the world. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.
Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New
Womanhood effectively introduces a 'new' wave of gender research
from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the
world. The volume conceptualises 'new womanhood' as a complex,
heterogeneous and intersectional identity. By deconstructing
classification systems and highlighting women's everyday ongoing
negotiations with boundaries of social categories, the book
reconfigures the concept of 'new woman' as a symbolic identity
denoting 'modern' femininity at the intersection of gender, class,
culture, sexuality and religion in South Asia. The collection maps
new sites and expressions on women and gender studies around
nationhood, women's rights, transnational feminist solidarity, 'new
girlhoods ', aesthetic and sexualised labour, respectability and
'modernity', LGBT discourses, domestic violence and 'new'
feminisms. The volume will be of interest to students and scholars
across a range of disciplines including gender studies, sociology,
education, media and cultural studies, literature, anthropology,
history, development studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian
studies.
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