Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia (2^nd Ed.)

This new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia. The Handbook covers the central contributions that have defi ned this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives spanning both the humanities and social sciences, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters, thus adding new areas of scholarship. The Handbook is organized thematically into five major parts:

? Historical formations and theoretical framings

? Law, citizenship and the nation

? Representations of culture, place, identity

? Labor and the economy

? Inequality, activism and the state

The Handbook illustrates the ways in which scholarship on gender has contributed to a rethink of theoretical concepts and empirical understandings of contemporary South Asia. Finally, it focuses on new areas of inquiry that have been opened up through a focus on gender and the intersections between gender and categories, such as caste, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. This timely study is essential reading for scholars who research and teach on South Asia as well as for scholars in related interdisciplinary fields that focus on women and gender from comparative and transnational perspectives.

Part I Historical Formations and Theoretical Framings 1. Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again? 2. Construction of Gender in the Late nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The writings of Nawab 3. Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations, Refugee Women and Partition Studies 4. The Contact Zones of Intersectionality: Inequality and Knowledge Production on India 5. Dalit Feminist Thought 6. Brahmanical Ignorance and Dominant Indian Feminism's Origin Stories Part II Law Citizenship and the Nation 7. Gender and Citizenship in India 8. Gender, Activism and Democratic Politics in Bangladesh 9. Law, Sex Work and Activism in India 10. The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence 11. Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka 12. Weaponizing Women: Kashmir and the Indian military Occupation Part III Representations of Culture, Place, Identity 13. The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context 14. Gender, media and popular culture in a global India 15. Death and Friendship: Queer Archives of the Space Between 16. Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered constellations 17. Vernacular Frames Queer Encounters Part IV Labor and the Economy 18. Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics 19. An Intersection of Marxism and Feminism among India’s Informal Workers: A Second Marriage? 20. A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary India 21. NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective 22. Gender and Paid Domestic Work in Sri Lanka Part V Inequality, Activism and the State 23. The Aurat March: Women's Movements and New Feminisms in Pakistan 24. Feminism, Sexual Violence and the Times of #MeToo in India 25. Dalit Women Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the ‘Quintessentially Marginal’ 26. Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship 27. Mapping Women’s Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation

Leela Fernandes is Director and the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She is the author of numerous books and essays. Her books on India include India’s New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (2006), Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (1997), and her forthcoming book, Governing Water in India: Urbanization, Inequality and the Liberalizing State (2022).