Rethinking New Womanhood Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Hussein, Nazia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Women.; Ethnology-Asia.; Culture.; Gender.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Women's Studies.; Asian Culture.; Culture and Gender.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New Womanhood effectively introduces a 'new' wave of gender research from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the world. The volume conceptualises 'new womanhood' as a complex, heterogeneous and interse...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction; Nazia Hussein; Part 1: 'New Woman': the real and the imagined
• 1. 'New Woman' as a Flashpoint within the Nation: The Border as Method in Tales of Modernity; Nandita Ghosh
• 2. Understanding the 'New Woman' in the Intersectional Grid of Caste, Class, Gender and Religion through the Works of Women Writers in India; Sanchayita Paul Chakrobarty
• 3. The New Heroine: Gender Representations in Contemporary Pakistani Dramas; Virginie Dutoya
• 4. Mis(s)guided by Popular Feminisms: TV commercials in India and the 'New Woman'; Deepali Yadav
• Part2: New Woman': the consumer, student and worker
• 5. Re-imagining the Traditional Buying Roles: Exploring the 'New Women' in Delhi
• 6. Enacting 'New girlhoods': Muslim girls' education in Assam; Saba Hussain
• 7. Bangladeshi New Women's Smart Dressing: Conforming, Negotiating and Resisting Organizational and Middle Class Respectable Aesthetic Standards; Nazia Hussein.