1st Edition
Contemporary Gender Formations in India In-between Conformity, Dissent and Affect
Moving the Spatial Fulcrums of the Gendered Mobilizations of Our Times: Beyond #MeToo and LOSHA: An Introduction
NANDINI DHAR
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 Rao’s The Walk
ANANNYA DASGUPTA
2. “Ain’t We Women?” The Media Amnesia on Women’s Voices in the Northeast
ANINDITA SENGUPTA
3. The State and its Hyper-Masculinity Practices in India’s “Northeast” : Articulations of Resistance in Contemporary Literary Writings from the “Northeast”
BHUMIKA RAJAN
4. Is There A Desire In the Classroom?
RAHUL SEN
Part Two: Beyond the Specters of Sexual Violence: Gendered Bodies, Agency and Resistance
5. Whose Blood Is It Anyway? Locating Menstruation, Locating Women’s Rights: Tracing the “New” Indian Feminist Subjectivity in Contemporary Times
JIGISHA BHATTACHARYA
6. Margins of Least Happiness: Understanding the Marginalized Women in Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
RATIKA KAUSHIK
7. The Public Sphere and the Contemporary Women’s Sociability Practices: A Study of the Bengali Adda
RITAM DUTTA
8. The Traffic in Bangalore: Thoughts on Sexuality, Class and Transport
LARS OLAV AABERG
9. Production of Neoliberal Subjectivity (ies) on the Shop-Floor: A Study of Women Shop-Floor Employees in a Shopping Mall
IPSITA PRADHAN
10. Gendering the Working-Class Subject: Notes on Few Contemporary Struggles
ARYA THOMAS
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
SHWETA KHILNANI
12. Indian Cyberfeminism: Digital Liberation or Selective Outrage?
DEBANJANA NAYEK
13. It Wasn’t Really Really A Rape! Exploring Sexuality in a New Age Campus
SAMEENA DALWAI and EYSHA MARYSHA
14. The Evidence of Rape: Legitimacy of Legitimate Processes
TARISHI VARMA and RADHIKA GAJJALA
Biography
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).
