Full Description
This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead raising new questions and dilemmas while unravelling the complexities of the terrain. They also interrogate extant knowledge that has 'constructed' women as 'agentless' over the years, incapable of contesting or transforming social orders - by taking a close look at gendered decision-making processes and outcomes, sex for pleasure, health care practices, content and context of formal schooling or the developmental state that 'mainstreams' gender. Do existing feminist methodologies enable the understanding of emerging themes as online sexual politics, transnational surrogacy or masculinist 'anti-feminist' sensibilities? The feminist methodologies delineated here will provide readers with a toolkit to assess the criticality of gender as well as its nuances. The work foregrounds the importance of intersectionality and builds a case for context-specific articulations of gender and societies that destabilize binary universals.
This volume will be useful to scholars and researchers across the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, especially gender studies, women's studies, feminism, research methodology, education, sociology, political science and public policy.
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: re-presenting feminist methodologies
KALPANA KANNABIRAN AND PADMINI SWAMINATHAN
PART I Mapping terrains
Section 1: Feminist journeys
1 Studying women and the women's movement in India: methods and impressions
JOAN P. MENCHER
2 'To bounce like a ball that has been hit': feminist reflections on the family
KALPANA KANNABIRAN
3 Masculinities in fieldwork: notes on feminist methodology
ROMIT CHOWDHURY
4 Real-life methods: feminist explorations of segregation in Delhi
GHAZALA JAMIL
Section 2: Unpacking disciplines
5 Stories we tell: feminism, science, methodology
BANU SUBRAMANIAM
6 Researching online worlds through a feminist lens: text, context and assemblages
USHA RAMAN AND SAI AMULYA KOMARRAJU
7 The erotics of risk: feminism and the humanities in flagrante delicto
BRINDA BOSE
8 Impractical topics, practical fields: notes on researching sexual violence in India
PRATIKSHA BAXI
PART II Exploring themes
Section 3: Development
9 Planning for modernization? feminist readings of plans and planned development in India
PADMINI SWAMINATHAN
10 Unpacking 'win-win': how feminists interrogate microfinance
K. KALPANA
11 Globalizations, mobility and agency: understanding women's lives through women's voices
BHAVANI ARABANDI
12 'Ladkiyaan phir aage?' towards understanding the formal school system
KUMKUM ROY
Section 4: Health
13 Researching assisted conception from a feminist lens
SAROJINI NADIMPALLY AND ANINDITA MAJUMDAR
14 RUWSEC Clinic: challenges faced by a grassroots feminist clinic
SUBHA SRI B. AND T.K. SUNDARI RAVINDRAN
15 Feminist critical medical anthropology methodologies: understanding gender and health care
in India
CECILIA VAN HOLLEN
Index
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