Women's and gender studies in India: crossings
Introduction : women's and gender studies at the crossroads / Anu Aneja -- Part I. Stirrings, across time and place -- (How) 'to be or not to be' : women's and gender studies in India today / Sharon Pillai -- Feminist crossings in time and space : the question of culture / Mary E. John -- Dynamics of the women's movement and women's studies in India : an evolutionary perspective / Vibhuti Patel -- Intersections of gender, caste and class : agenda building in the Indian women's movement / Mangala Subramaniam and Preethi Krishnan -- Beyond essentialism : ecofeminism and the 'friction' between gender and ecology / Anindita Majumdar -- Locating disability in the Indian women's movement / Anita Ghai -- Part II. Interleaves : conceiving theories, theorizing identities -- Feminist theory and the aesthetic re-turn / Anu Aneja -- Masculinity, sexuality and culture : entangled narratives / Sanjay Srivastava -- Pride and prejudice : intersectional perspectives on identity formation through Indian pride events / Namita Paul -- (Dis)ability, gender and identity : crossing boundaries / Shubhangi Vaidya -- Gender, caste and Indian feminism : the case of the Women's Reservation Bill / Vrinda Marwah -- Bharat Mata, melodrama and the mediation of the national subject / Karen Gabriel -- Part III. In-disciplinarities -- Feminism across disciplines : from Plato's Academy to the streets of Delhi / Deepti Priya Mehrotra -- Reconfiguring the disciplinary boundaries of women's and gender studies through the genre of lifewritings / Meenakshi Malhotra -- Transgender studies in India : locating folklore and autobiographies as transgressive sites / Akshaya K. Rath -- Crafting spaces at new intersections : in search of psychoanalytic feminism for India / Rachana Johri -- (Dis)respectable selfies : honour, surveillance and undisciplined girl / Sujatha Subramanian -- Part IV. Entwining feminism and pedagogy : inside the institution -- Working through the women's and gender studies teaching machine : notes on the way forward / Sharon Pillai -- Blending in : reconciling feminist pedagogy and distance education across cultures / Anu Aneja -- Disrupting the gender binary : queering feminist pedagogy / Leena Pujari -- Part V. Conversations across borders -- Transnational feminist crossings : on neo-liberalism and radical critique / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Globalization and Third Way theories : the beleaguered family and the marginalization of women / Taisha Abraham -- When feminists sidestep the nation state : transnational feminist journeys / Krishna Menon -- Queer and now : a roundtable form with Dipikia Jain, Akhil Kang, Sheena Malhotra, Hoshang Merchant, Shakthi Nataraj, Chayanika Shah, Nishant Shahani, Oishik Sircar and Ruth Vanita / Aneil Rallin.