Full Description
South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora explores how South Asian feminisms challenge exclusionary narratives in the Global North. Conceptualizing "South Asian" as a transnational conjuncture that links diasporic and mainland aspirations and anxieties, the contributors to this collection describe how, at what sites, and in what ways they encounter South Asianness, especially its complicity with mainstream political, social, and economic interests. The authors, from diverse South Asian communities and disciplines, describe their struggles with gendered aspects of religious and cultural identities, racism and white supremacy, postcolonial and diasporic identities, violence against women and labour organizing, and South Asian queerness, while critiquing mainstream representations of identity and culture. This collection connects scholars and scholarship at the nexus of diasporic South Asian studies and intersectional, transnational, and third-world feminisms. Contributors: Marshia Akbar, Dolores Chew, Safiyya Hosein, Amina Jamal, Nayyar S. Javed, Peruvemba S. Jaya, Aaliya Khan, Ameera Sultana Khan, Maryam Khan, Kanwal Khokar, Sailaja V. Krishnamurti, Jane Ku, Ayesha Mian Akram, Mandeep Kaur Mucina, Sarah Shah, Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff, Sunera Thobani.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, and Maryam Khan
Section I: Identifications and Disidentifications
1: The Dialogic of Praxis by Dolores Chew
2: Placing Muslim Identity: Experiences of Bangladeshi Immigrant Women Operating Businesses in Toronto by Marshia Akbar
3: Transgressing Boundaries of Izzat: Resisting, Surviving, and Understanding Honour-Related Violence Through the Stories of South Asian Women by Mandeep Kaur Mucina
Section II: Unpacking the Problematics
4: Is Feeling Like an Imposter a "Syndrome" or a "Protective Response" to the Colonial Gaze? by Nayyer Javed
5: Blurred and Bright Boundaries: Reflexive Appraisals of Pakistani Canadian Home and Host Religions and Cultures by Sarah Shah
6: Exploring Diasporic Indo-Caribbean Identity Through the Ms. Marvel Series by Safiyya Hosein
7: Female Terrorism in the West: The Case of Rehab Dughmosh by Kanwal Khokar
8: Speaking Out About Abuse, Patriarchy, and Misogyny against South Asian Women: An Examination of Because We Are Girls by Peruvemba S. Jaya
Section III: Not All Together: Gender, Sexuality, Class, and Diverse Patriarchies
9: The Names We Carry with Us: Challenging the Omission of Caste and Interrogating Caste Privilege among South Asian Feminists in Canada by Sailaja Krishnamurti
10: "You Are Not a Muslim": Critically Examining South Asian-Ness and Religious Politics in the Diaspora by Ayesha Mian Akram
11: Queerness and Muslimness in the Lives of South Asian Muslim Women in the Diaspora by Maryam Khan
Section IV: Anti-Racist Feminism and Settler Colonialisms: Solidarities, Activism, and Futures
12: On Wings of Fire: Parsi Women's Life Stories by Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff
13: Claiming Physical Space in a Settler Colonial Context by Aaliya Khan
14: Translating Chinese Indian Nationalism as the Site of Political Intervention by Jane Ku
15: Queering Islam to Root Us in Our Lived Experiences by Ameera Sultana Khan
16: Afterword: Reflections on Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms by Sunera Thobani
Contributors
