Full Description
This volume brings together a comprehensive documentation of feminist research while locating gender from the perspective of both practice and praxis frameworks. It maps out the emerging social issues in India, such as women's embodied and multiple realities, their alienation resulting from the interplay of technology and capitalism, gendered nature smart urban spaces, access to clean energy technologies, violence and performativity, new conceptualisation of fatherhood, women in leadership, and intimate partner violence.
Firmly grounded in contemporary feminist research, the book will be an indispensable resource for students, teachers, and researcher scholars of feminist studies, anthropology, social work, sociology, and women's and gender studies. It will also be of interest to gender practitioners and researchers.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction Understanding Feminist Praxis and Practice: Beyond the Cliché Chapter 2: Gendered Social Norms and Attitudes in Access to Energy Chapter 3: Gendered Space in a Smart City: Traversing Women's Experiences in Informal Sector Chapter 4: Technology, Capitalism and Women: Resisting Self-alienation Chapter 5: Second sex in reproduction: Methodological reflections on engaging with working-class men on expectant fatherhood Chapter 6: "Long Live Nirbhaya": Performance, Performativity and Protest in Contemporary India Chapter 7: Tawaifs! Sexuality and Kathak Dance Chapter 8: Lived Experiences of Nude Art Models: Micro-ethnographic Reflections Chapter 9: Women's Lives Within Legal Pluralism: A Study in a Bodo Settlement Chapter 10: Negotiating Sexual and Reproductive Rights within Marriage: Feminist Reflections Chapter 11: Leading from Within: How women's "Inner conversations" Shape their Outer Realities Chapter 12: Relevant or not? Self-help Groups and Profit-oriented Microfinance in the Context of for poverty reduction and empowerment of Arunthathiyar women
