Introduction - Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective
Nazia Hussein and Saba Hussain
1. Prayers to Kāli: practicing radical numinosity
Anjana Raghavan
2. Re-animating Muslim women’s auto/biographical writings: Hayat-e-Ashraf as a palimpsest of educated selves
Shenila Khoja-Moolji
3. Pious capital: fashionable femininity and the predicament of financial freedom
Sarah Shroff
4. ‘Bordering’ life: denying the right to live before being born
Mira Tiwari
5. Menstruating women and celibate gods: a discourse analysis of women’s entry into Sabarimala temple in Kerala, India
Rashmi Kumari
6. The culinary as ‘border’: perspectives on food and femininity in the Indian subcontinent
Shyamasri Maji
7. A decolonial reading of the Punjabi (m)other in British Asian literature
Kavita Bhanot
8. The (im)possibility of decolonising gender in South Asia: a reading of Bollywood’s ‘new women’
Saba Hussain and Nazia Hussain
Biography
Nazia Hussein is a feminist sociologist specialising in gender, race and religion in the UK and South Asia. She is the author of Rethinking New Womanhood (2018) and New Muslim Women of Bangladesh (2021). Dr Hussein currently works as Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK.
Saba Hussain is a feminist sociologist specialising in gender, education and securitisation. She is the author of Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India (2019). She is Lecturer in Sociology and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University, UK.
