Full Description
This edited volume is a decolonial/deconstructive approach to South Asian gender and sexuality studies, which it reimagines through a pluralized, multivariate lens. New understandings of South Asia have emerged during the time of unrest and shifting geopolitics. It is critical to re-envision gender engagements in ways that decenter universalizing hegemonic feminist debates, both from global and national metropole and instead rearticulate gender and sexuality through critical regionalism, border-politics, land and social movements, indigeneity, law and jurisprudence and broader social textuality. Building bridges across disciplines and between scholars and activists, the chapters in the book offer perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, public health, international relations and law, as well as organizers and advocates committed to women and gender studies.
Contents
Chapter 1. Understanding Intersex from India: Ambiguity, Embodiment and Deconstruction.- Chaprer 2. Uncovering the Intricate Lived Experiences of Migrant Trans Men in Bengaluru through a Decolonial Lens.- Chapter 3. Gender, Space, and Geopolitics in the context of Nepal: A Focus on Localisation and Globalization.- Chapter 4. Communities, Spaces, and Subaltern Counterpublics: Case of Nachchi Sex Workers in Colombo, Sri Lanka.- Chapter 5. 'Sex/uality, New Media and Hyper-masculinity: Joyland and Transgenderism in Pakistan'.- Chapter 6. Pathways to the Future: Reimagining Scholarship in South Asia and Leadership on LGBTQIA+ Issues.- Chapter 7. Nuptial Hermeneutics: Love, Political Philosophy, Same-Sex Union in India.- Chapter 8. The past, present and future of Afghanistan's LGBTQI+ community.- Chapter 9. LGBTIQ+ Rights Movement in Bangladesh: Examining Visibility and Activism.- Chapter 10. The Movement for Transgender Legal Rights in Pakistan.
