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This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of
feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told
through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It
brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive
articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist
response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here
scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the
expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary
South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly
complicated discourses across narrative forms - hashtag activism on
Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as
Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit
narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism
against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on
queer rights, state censorship of "India's Daughter", and feminist
film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of
feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told
through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It
brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive
articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist
response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here
scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the
expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary
South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly
complicated discourses across narrative forms - hashtag activism on
Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as
Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit
narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism
against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on
queer rights, state censorship of "India's Daughter", and feminist
film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
"This book is a true love letter, not only to Jha's own son but
also to all of our sons and to the parents--especially mothers--who
raise them." -Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race
and Mediocre Beautifully written and deeply personal, this book
follows the struggles and triumphs of one single, immigrant mother
of color to raise an American feminist son. From teaching consent
to counteracting problematic messages from the media, well-meaning
family, and the culture at large, the author offers an empowering,
imperfect feminism, brimming with honest insight and actionable
advice. Informed by Jha's work as a professor of journalism
specializing in social justice movements and social media, as well
as by conversations with psychologists, experts, other parents and
boys--and through powerful stories from her own life--How to Raise
a Feminist Son shows us all how to be better feminists and better
teachers of the next generation of men in this electrifying tour de
force. Includes chapter takeaways, and an annotated bibliography of
reading and watching recommendations for adults and children. "A
beautiful hybrid of memoir, manifesto, instruction manual, and
rumination on the power of story and possibilities of family."
-Rebecca Solnit, author of The Mother of All Questions
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