Rethinking New Womanhood Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction; Nazia Hussein; Part 1: ‘New Woman’: the real and the imagined
- 1. ‘New Woman’ as a Flashpoint within the Nation: The Border as Method in Tales of Modernity; Nandita Ghosh
- 2. Understanding the 'New Woman' in the Intersectional Grid of Caste, Class, Gender and Religion through the Works of Women Writers in India; Sanchayita Paul Chakrobarty
- 3. The New Heroine: Gender Representations in Contemporary Pakistani Dramas; Virginie Dutoya
- 4. Mis(s)guided by Popular Feminisms: TV commercials in India and the ‘New Woman’; Deepali Yadav
- Part2: New Woman’: the consumer, student and worker
- 5. Re-imagining the Traditional Buying Roles: Exploring the 'New Women' in Delhi
- 6. Enacting ‘New girlhoods’: Muslim girls’ education in Assam; Saba Hussain
- 7. Bangladeshi New Women’s Smart Dressing: Conforming, Negotiating and Resisting Organizational and Middle Class Respectable Aesthetic Standards; Nazia Hussein