Routledge handbook of gender in South Asia / edited by Leela Fernandes.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again? / Construction of Gender in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The Writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain / Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations, Refugee Women and Partition Studies / Gender and Citizenship in India / Gender and Democratic Politics in Bangladesh / Law, Sex Work and Activism in India / The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence / Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka / The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context / Gender, Media and Popular Culture in a Global India / Death and Family: Queer Archives of the Space Between / Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered Constellations / Gender and Property in Neoliberal Middle-class Kolkata: Of Untold Riches and Unruly Homes / Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics / An Intersection of Marxism and Feminism among India's Informal Workers: A Second Marriage? / Gendered Opportunity and Constraint in India's IT Industry: The Problem of Too Much 'Headweight' / A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary India / NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective / Gender and Education in South Asia / Sex Ratios and Sex Selection in India: History and the Present / Dalit Women Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the 'Quintessentially Marginal' / Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship / Mapping Women's Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation /

Focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this overview of gender, women, and sexuality covers historical formations of gender and the significance of colonialism and nationalism; law, citizenship and the nation; representations of culture, place, identity; labor and the economy; and inequality, activism and the state

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