Roy Changing the Subject

Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2351-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

Srila Roy traces the impact of neoliberalism on gender and sexuality rights movements in the Global South through queer and feminist activism in India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Srila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations ix
Preface: We, Feminists xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. Changing the Subject of Indian Feminism 1
1. Indian Feminism in the New Millennium: Co-optation, Entanglement, Intersection 26
2. Queer Activism as Governmentality: Regulating Lesbians, Making Queer 47
3. Queer Self-Fashioning: In, out of, and beyond the Closet 77
4. Feminist Governmentality: Entangled Histories and Empowered Women 101
5. Subaltern Self-Government: Precarious Transformations 132
Conclusion. On Critique and Care 160
Notes 177
References 215
Index 243

Über Autor(innen)

Srila Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement, and editor of New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities.