Rethinking New Womanhood | Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia

Nazia Hussein

ISBN 10: 3030098168 / ISBN 13: 9783030098162

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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Rethinking New Womanhood | Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia | Nazia Hussein | Taschenbuch | xi | Englisch | 2019 | Palgrave Macmillan | EAN 9783030098162 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking New Womanhood | Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030098168
• ISBN 13: 9783030098162
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 14D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 321 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Nazia Hussein is Lecturer in Sociology, Birmingham City University, UK.