South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora explores how South Asian feminisms challenge exclusionary narratives in the Global North. Conceptualizing "South Asian" as a transnational conjuncture that links diasporic and mainland aspirations and anxieties, the contributors to this collection describe how, at what sites, and in what ways they encounter South Asianness, especially its complicity with mainstream political, social, and economic interests. The authors, from diverse South Asian communities and disciplines, describe their struggles with gendered aspects of religious and cultural identities, racism and white supremacy, postcolonial and diasporic identities, violence against women and labour organizing, and South Asian queerness, while critiquing mainstream representations of identity and culture. This collection connects scholars and scholarship at the nexus of diasporic South Asian studies and intersectional, transnational, and third-world feminisms.
Contributors: Marshia Akbar, Dolores Chew, Safiyya Hosein, Amina Jamal, Nayyar S. Javed, Peruvemba S. Jaya, Aaliya Khan, Ameera Sultana Khan, Maryam Khan, Kanwal Khokhar, Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, Jane Ku, Ayesha Mian Akram, Mandeep Kaur Mucina, Sarah Shah, Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff, Sunera Thobani.
Recenzijas
"This collection deftly articulates the internal diversity among South Asian populations, the different pressures faced by South Asian women, and the challenges of inhabiting a diasporic space." Faiza Hirji, McMaster University "South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora offers anti-racist knowledge that underlines a fluid, expansive, and contested South Asian identity in Canada and recognizes heterogeneous embodiments and histories that transcend South Asia. The volume centralizes marginalized voices that collectively challenge the status quo in these communities and in Canada." Rita Kaur Dhamoon, University of Victoria
Papildus informācija
South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora explores how South Asian feminisms challenge exclusionary narratives in the Global North.
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, and Maryam Khan
Section I: Identifications and Disidentifications
Chapter 1: The Dialogic of Praxis by Dolores Chew
Chapter 2: Placing Muslim Identity: Experiences of Bangladeshi Immigrant
Women Operating Businesses in Toronto by Marshia Akbar
Chapter 3: Transgressing Boundaries of Izzat: Resisting, Surviving, and
Understanding Honour-Related Violence Through the Stories of South Asian
Women by Mandeep Kaur Mucina
Section II: Unpacking the Problematics
Chapter 4: Is Feeling Like an Imposter a Syndrome or a Protective
Response to the Colonial Gaze? by Nayyer Javed
Chapter 5: Blurred and Bright Boundaries: Reflexive Appraisals of Pakistani
Canadian Home and Host Religions and Cultures by Sarah Shah
Chapter 6: Exploring Diasporic Indo-Caribbean Identity Through the Ms.
Marvel Series by Safiyya Hosein
Chapter 7: Female Terrorism in the West: The Case of Rehab Dughmosh by Kanwal
Khokar
Chapter 8: Speaking Out About Abuse, Patriarchy, and Misogyny against South
Asian Women: An Examination of Because We Are Girls by Peruvemba S. Jaya
Section III: Not All Together: Gender, Sexuality, Class, and Diverse
Patriarchies
Chapter 9: The Names We Carry with Us: Challenging the Omission of Caste and
Interrogating Caste Privilege among South Asian Feminists in Canada by
Sailaja Krishnamurti
Chapter 10: You Are Not a Muslim: Critically Examining South Asian-Ness and
Religious Politics in the Diaspora by Ayesha Mian Akram
Chapter 11: Queerness and Muslimness in the Lives of South Asian Muslim Women
in the Diaspora by Maryam Khan
Section IV: Anti-Racist Feminism and Settler Colonialisms: Solidarities,
Activism, and Futures
Chapter 12: On Wings of Fire: Parsi Womens Life Stories by Farah Mahrukh
Coomi Shroff
Chapter 13: Claiming Physical Space in a Settler Colonial Context by Aaliya
Khan
Chapter 14: Translating Chinese Indian Nationalism as the Site of Political
Intervention by Jane Ku
Chapter 15: Queering Islam to Root Us in Our Lived Experiences by Ameera
Sultana Khan
Chapter 16: Afterword: Reflections on Critical Diasporic South Asian
Feminisms by Sunera Thobani
Contributors
Amina Jamal is Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jane Ku is Associate Professor in Womens and Gender Studies and Sociology at the University of Windsor. Maryam Khan is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University.
