TY  - GEN
AU  - Meenakshi Malhotra
AU  - Malhotra, Meenakshi, 
AU  - Menon, Krishna, 
AU  - Johri, Rachana, 
TI  - The Gendered Body in South Asia: negotiation, resistance, struggle / 
SN  - 9781032702285
U1  - 305.30954 
PY  - 2024///
KW  - Body image in women
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Sex role
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This book situates the discourse on the gendered body within the rapidly transitioning South Asian socio-economic and cultural landscape. It critically analyzes gender politics from different disciplinary perspectives including psychoanalysis, post-structuralism, post-colonialism and law among others. Enriched by contributions from well-known South Asian feminist scholars, this book discusses themes such as democracy and dissent, citizenship and violence and how the female body has historically been used in these discussions as a shield and a weapon. It also focuses on technology and misogyny, the politics of veiling and unveiling, the body of the Muslim women in contemporary India as well as bodies which are marginalized or labelled transgressive or monstrous. The chapters in the volume showcase the complexities, convergences and divergences which exist in the conception and understanding of the gendered body, sexuality and gender roles in different socio-cultural spaces in South Asia and how women negotiate these boundaries"-- Provided by publisher
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