Name: Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices
ISBN: 9789848815120

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Book details

xii+177p., 22cm.
Hardcover
English language
The University Press Limited
31.12.2010
ISBN 13: 9789848815120

Related categories

Social Sciences > Women Studies

Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices (Imagine a New South Asia (INSA) Series #)

Selina Hossain (Editor)

Radha Chakravarty (Editor)

Synopsis

Feminism in South Asia has expanded beyond the customary debates about the silencing and objectification of women and their confinement to domesticity and the reproductive role.

The stories in this anthology situate gender in relation to a host of contemporary issues, such as caste, class, community, creativity, work, globalisation, environment, technology, nation, politics and the body.

This volume contains writing by men and women from different South Asian countries. Encompassing multiple perspectives, languages and narrative approaches, the stories represent the cultural and linguistic diversity of the South Asian region.

The stories also help in highlighting overlapping concerns and the need to evolve greater mutual understanding among the people of the region. Together, these narratives reaffirm the role that literary texts can play in envisioning a more tolerant and harmonious world.