Rethinking New Womanhood 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 3319679007
• ISBN-13: 9783319679006
• Author: Nazia Hussein

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.

Table contents:

1. ‘(New) Woman’ as a Flashpoint Within the Nation: The Border as Method in Tales of Modernity
2. Made in Bangladesh: The Romance of the New Woman
3. The New Heroine? Gender Representations in Contemporary Pakistani Dramas
4. Bangladeshi New Women’s ‘Smart’ Dressing: Negotiating Class, Culture, and Religion
5. Nepalese (New) Women Workers in the Hotel Industry: Exploring Women’s Work and Respectability
6. Merging Career and Marital Aspirations: Emerging Discourse of ‘New Girlhood’ Among Muslims in Assam
7. Earning as Empowerment?: The Relationship Between Paid Work and Domestic Violence in Lyari, Karachi
8. Heterosexual Profession, Lesbian Practices: How Sex Workers’ Sexuality Right Positions Through Intersection of Sexuality, Gender, and Class Within the Hierarchy of LGBT Activism in Bangladesh
9. ‘New’ Feminisms in India: Encountering the ‘West’ and the Rest

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