1st Edition
Embodying Motherhood Indian and Transnational Perspectives
Lists of figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Disembodied Mothers: Rewriting the Maternal Metaphor through Goddess Iconography 2. Anticipating the Mother's Dream: Maternal Subjectivity in Psychoanalysis, Literature and Cinema 3. 'Mere Paas Maa Hai': Reflections on Representations of Motherhood in Hindi Cinema 4. 'More than a Mother': Autism, Motherhood Discourse and Lived Experience 5. Capitalist Encounters: The Motherhood Pact 6. Of 'Unfit' Mothers: Disability, Stereotypes and Contestations 7. Mapping the Mother in France and India: Discursive Revolutions Epilogue: Reimagining Motherhood in Indian and Transnational Contexts. Index
Biography
Anu Aneja is Professor, Women and Gender Studies at George Mason University in Virginia. She has research interests in transnational feminist theory, affect and aesthetics. Her published works include Feminist Theory and the Aesthetics Within: A perspective from South Asia (2022), Women’s and Gender Studies in India: Crossings, ed. (2019), and Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Contemporary India (2016, co-authored with Shubhangi Vaidya). She has edited a focus volume on Gender & Distance Education: Indian and International Contexts (2019). Her work has appeared in various peer reviewed journals and edited anthologies.
Shubhangi Vaidya is a Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-disciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. A sociologist by training, her research interests are in the areas of disability studies and gender studies. She is the author of Embodying Motherhood: Perspectives from Urban India (Sage- Yoda Press 2016) with Anu Aneja, and Autism and the Family in Urban India: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Springer, 2016). She is actively involved in awareness raising and advocacy for persons with disability and their families.
