Handbook of Gender
Edited by Raka Ray
Table of Contents
The Politics of Knowledge: The Women's Movement and Gender Scholarship in India, Raka Ray
Part I: Law
1. The Foundations of Modern Legal Structures in India, Janaki Nair
2. Conjugality, Property, Morality and Maintenance, Flavia Agnes
Part II: Sexuality
3. Uneven Modernities and Ambivalent Sexualities: Women's Constructions of Puberty in Coastal Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, Kalpana Ram
4. Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen, Feminist Disruptions, Nivedita Menon
Part III: Masculinity
5. Potent Protests: The Age of Consent Controversy, 1891, Mrinalini Sinha
6. Style, Lawrence Cohen
Part IV: Caste
7. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism, and a Script for the Past, Uma Chakravarti
8. A Cartography of Resistance: The National Federation of Dalit Women, Kalpana Kannabiran
Part V: Media
9. Dharma and Desire, Freedom and Destiny: Rescripting the Man-woman Relationship in Popular Hindi Cinema, Patricia Uberoi
10. Forbidden Love and Passionate Denials: A Dialogue on Domesticities and Queer Intimacy, Shohini Ghosh
Part VI: Religion
11. Heroic Women, Mother Goddesses: Family and Organization in Hindutva Politics, Tanika Sarkar
12. Feminist Theory, Agency, and the Liberatory Subject: Some Reflections on the Islamic Revival in Egypt, Saba Mahmood
Part VII: Labour
13. Family and Factory: Women in the Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1919-1939, Radha Kumar
14. Women Workers, Liberalization and Social Citizenship in India, Amrita Chachhi
Part VIII: Environment
15. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India, Bina Agarwal
16. Genderscapes: Deepening Our Understanding of Gender-Environment Linkages, Sumi Krishna
Part IX: Women's Movement
17. Women's Politics in India, Ilina Sen
18. Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order, Mary John