The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape case and the ensuing massive protests in December 2012.
The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape case and the ensuing massive protests in December 2012. A critical documentation of some of the key moments surrounding the contemporary gendered formations and radicalisms in South Asia, the chapters span questions of class, caste, sexuality, digital feminisms, and conflict zones.
The book looks at anger, protest, and imaginations of resistance. It showcases the new visibility that digital spaces have opened up to lend voice to survivors who are let down by traditional justice mechanisms and raises questions regarding individualized modes of seeking justice as against traditional collective voices that have always been a hallmark of movements. The volume analyses and criticizes the complicity of the state and the court as agents of reinforcing gender violence an issue that has not been theorized enough by activists and scholars of violence. Further, it also delves into the #MeToo movement and the LoSHA, as both have raised contentious, controversial, and often conflicting debates on the nature of addressing sexual harassment, particularly at the workplace.
Calling for further debate and discussions of cyberspace, gender justice, sexual violence, male entitlement, and forms of neoliberal feminism, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers in the areas of women and gender studies, sociology and social theory, gender politics, political theory, democracy, protest movements, politics, media and the internet, political advocacy, and law and legal theory. It will also be a compelling read for anyone interested in gender justice and equal rights.
Moving the Spatial Fulcrums of the Gendered Mobilizations of Our Times:
Beyond #MeToo and LOSHA: An Introduction Part One: The Complicated
Imaginaries of Sexual Violence: Gendered Bodies, Public Spaces and the
Affective Registers
1. I am As Big As the City I Walk: Documenting Maya Raos
The Walk
2. Aint We Women? The Media Amnesia on Womens Voices in the
Northeast
3. The State and its Hyper-Masculinity Practices in Indias
Northeast : Articulations of Resistance in Contemporary Literary Writings
from the Northeast
4. Is There A Desire In the Classroom? Part Two: Beyond
the Specters of Sexual Violence: Gendered Bodies, Agency and Resistance
5.
Whose Blood Is It Anyway? Locating Menstruation, Locating Womens Rights:
Tracing the New Indian Feminist Subjectivity in Contemporary Times
6.
Margins of Least Happiness: Understanding the Marginalized Women in Roys The
Ministry of Utmost Happiness
7. The Public Sphere and the Contemporary
Womens Sociability Practices: A Study of the Bengali Adda
8. The Traffic in
Bangalore: Thoughts on Sexuality, Class and Transport
9. Production of
Neoliberal Subjectivity (ies) on the Shop-Floor: A Study of Women Shop-Floor
Employees in a Shopping Mall
10. Gendering the Working-Class Subject: Notes
on Few Contemporary Struggles Part Three: Realms of Corporeality,
Collectivity and Resistance: Bringing It Back to Sexual Violence, Hashtag
Movements and their Everyday Ramifications
11. Will the Revolution be
Tweeted: New Femininities in Indian Digital Sphere
12. Indian Cyberfeminism:
Digital Liberation or Selective Outrage?
13. It Wasnt Really Really A Rape!
Exploring Sexuality in a New Age Campus
14. The Evidence of Rape: Legitimacy
of Legitimate Processes
Nandini Dhar is Associate Professor of Literary and Gender Studies at O.P. Jindal Global University at Sonipat, India. As a scholar, she is primarily concerned with the writing of neoliberal subjectivities in Global Anglophone late twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Her essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in journals such as Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, The Comparatist, A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, and several other edited anthologies. Nandini is also a poet and is the author of the full-length collection, Historians of Redundant Moments: A Novel in Verse (2016).
