| South Asian Women in the Diaspora Contributor(s): Puwar, Nirmal (Editor), Raghuram, Parvati (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1859736963 ISBN-13: 9781859736968 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2003 Annotation: South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are 'performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with 'indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.488 |
| LCCN: 2004351191 |
| Lexile Measure: 1560 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.42" W x 8.7" (0.94 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: South Asian women have frequently been conceptualized in colonial, academic and postcolonial studies, but their very categorization is deeply problematic. This book, informed by theory and enriched by in-depth fieldwork, overturns these unhelpful categorizations and alongside broader issues of self and nation assesses how South Asian identities are 'performed'. What are the blind spots and erasures in existing studies of both race and gender? In what ways do South Asian women struggle with Orientalist constructions? How do South Asian women engage with 'indo-chic?' What dilemmas face the South Asian female scholar? With a combination of the most recent feminist perspectives on gender and the South Asian diaspora, questions of knowledge, power, space, body, aesthetics and politics are made central to this book. Building upon a range of experiences and reflecting on the actual conditions of the production of knowledge, South Asian Women in the Disapora represents a challenging contribution to any consideration of gender, race, culture and power. |
Contributor Bio(s): Raghuram, Parvati: - Parvati Raghuram is an International Studies Lecturer, at Nottingham Trent University.Puwar, Nirmal: - Nirmal Puwar is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology, University College Northampton. |
