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, South Asian queerness, violence against women, and labour, and organizing; 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, Ayesha Mian Akram, 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, 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
Chapter 1: The Dialogic of Praxis by Dolores Chew
Chapter 2: Placing Muslim Identity: Experiences of Bangladeshi Immigrant Women Operating Businesses in Toronto by Marshia Akbar
Chapter 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
Chapter 4: Is Feeling Like an Imposter a "Syndrome" or a "Protective Response" to the Colonial Gaze? by Nayyer Javed
Chapter 5: Blurred and Bright Boundaries: Reflexive Appraisals of Pakistani Canadian Home and Host Religions and Cultures by Sarah Shah
Chapter 6: Exploring Diasporic Indo-Caribbean Identity Through the Ms. Marvel Series by Safiyya Hosein
Chapter 7: Female Terrorism in the West: The Case of Rehab Dughmosh by Kanwal Khokar
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 10: "You Are Not a Muslim": Critically Examining South Asian-Ness and Religious Politics in the Diaspora by Ayesha Mian Akram
Chapter 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
Chapter 12: On Wings of Fire: Parsi Women's Life Stories by Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff
Chapter 13: Claiming Physical Space in a Settler Colonial Context by Aaliya Khan
Chapter 14: Translating Chinese Indian Nationalism as the Site of Political Intervention by Jane Ku
Chapter 15: Queering Islam to Root Us in Our Lived Experiences by Ameera Sultana Khan
Chapter 16: Afterword: Reflections on Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms by Sunera Thobani
Contributors
