Rethinking New Womanhood: Practices of gender, class, culture and religion in South Asia

Hussein, Nazia (2018) Rethinking New Womanhood: Practices of gender, class, culture and religion in South Asia. In: Rethinking New Womanhood Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-67899-3 (In Press)

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Abstract

Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New Womanhood effectively introduces a ‘new’ wave of gender research from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the world. The volume conceptualises ‘new womanhood’ as a complex, heterogeneous and intersectional identity. By deconstructing classification systems and highlighting women’s everyday ongoing negotiations with boundaries of social categories, the book reconfigures the concept of ‘new woman’ as a symbolic identity denoting ‘modern’ femininity at the intersection of gender, class, culture, sexuality and religion in South Asia. The collection maps new sites and expressions on women and gender studies around nationhood, women’s rights, transnational feminist solidarity, ‘new girlhoods ’, aesthetic and sexualised labour, respectability and ‘modernity’, LGBT discourses, domestic violence and ‘new’ feminisms.

The volume will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including gender studies, sociology, education, media and cultural studies, literature, anthropology, history, development studies, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Women, Gender, South Asia, Class, Culture, Religion, Muslim women, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, boundary work, respectability, empowerment, education, work place, urban, feminism
Subjects:	L100 Economics L200 Politics L300 Sociology L400 Social Policy L500 Social Work L600 Anthropology L700 Human and Social Geography L900 Others in Social studies N900 Others in Business and Administrative studies P300 Media studies Q200 Comparative Literary studies Q300 English studies T300 South Asian studies T400 Other Asian studies X900 Others in Education
Divisions:	Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences > Dept. Criminology and Sociology UoA Collections > UoA23: Sociology
Depositing User:	Nazia Hussein
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2018 08:25
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2018 08:25
URI:	http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/5804

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