South Asian Feminisms

During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location, as well as the focus, of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. Building on that work, the contributors to this compelling collection, prominent feminist academics and activists, most of whom are based in South Asia and North America, examine recent feminist interventions in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. They address feminist responses to religious fundamentalism and secularism; globalization, labor, and migration; militarization and state repression; public representations of sexuality; and the cultural politics of sex work. The sixteen essays attest to the diversity and specificity of South Asian locations and feminist concerns, while also demonstrating how feminist engagements in the region can enrich feminist theorizing more broadly. They interrogate the limits, as well as the potential, of taking South Asia as the grounds for new theoretical work in feminism. Contributors Flavia Agnes Anjali Arondekar Firdous Azim Anannya Bhattacharjee Laura Brueck Angana P. Chatterji Malathi de Alwis Toorjo Ghose Amina Jamal Ratna Kapur Lamia Karim Ania Loomba Ritty A. Lukose Vasuki Nesiah Sonali Perera Atreyee Sen Mrinalini Sinha Ashwini Sukthankar

Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Ritty A. Lukose is Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.