Re-defining Feminisms
Contents: Foreword/Pushpa Bhave. Preface. I. Re-design: 1. Re-defining feminism: a personal note/Vidya Bal. 2. Invisible women: disability, gender and feminism/Shilpa Das. 3. Need to re-define women's activities in Gujarat; a case study AWAG/Ila Pathak. 4. Discourse on sexual harassment-free workplace for women/Vibhuti Patel. II. Re-think: 5. A second look at Michelangelo's painting--original sin/Esther David. 6. At the crossroads/Lakshmi Kannan. 7. Courage never to submit or yield: short stories by women in India/G.S. Jayashree. 8. Re-presenting and re-visioning engendered bodies: contemporary Tamil Theatre: a feminist perspective/A. Mangai. 9. Gender representation paradigm in Indian Media: a post-feminist perspective/Shobhana Nair. 10. "What do we know (not)?" Alternative patriarchies alternative female sexualities--anti-essentialism/Aniruddhan Vasudevan. III. Re-view: 11. The feminine facets of a Masculine Christ/Jean D'Souza. 12. Nineteenth century social reform and the 'women's question'/Balaji Ranganathan. 13. Identical expressions in visual and literary experience with reference to female space/Vaijayanti D. Shete. 14. Women in soap operas: Devi, Demon, or?/Indira Nityanandam. 15. Mis(re)-presentation of women tennis players on and off the court/Vidya G. Rao. IV. Re-mark: 16. The Burden of Shakti: female agency and literary creativity in Orissa/Sachidananda Mohanty. 17. Literary cross-dressing: portrayal of women in Gujarati Dalit short stories by male writers/Rupalee Burke. 18. Powerless matriarchs: a hidden truth/Smitha Sivadasan. 19. Staging resistance: a feminist exploration of women's theatre in India/Kavita Patel. 20. Psychodynamics of female creativity: looking back at Gangasati/Darshana Trivedi. 21. Looking glass as a metaphor for self-realization in Kamala Das' poetry/Javed Khan. Index.
"We are now inhabiting an academic world filled with the prefix 'post' -- post-structuralism, post-modernism, post-colonialism, post-feminism... More than debating the various connotations of the prefix, scholars are now increasingly engaged in identifying the space offered by it in order to interrogate, negotiate and transform the movements defined by it. This book, Re-defining Feminism, is one such attempt aimed at examining the process that paves way for re-definition of the different types of feminisms in the Indian context. The critical anthology is an outcome of the peer reviewed and revised papers presented at a national conference and a few invited contributions. While literature is the underlying matrix for the anthology, it covers diverse fields like fine arts, creative writings, social work, activism, media studies and many more. The editors of the anthology have identified four stages to the process of re-definition, namely, re-design, re-think, re-view and re-mark. All the contributions have been arranged within the four stages, which appear as the four sections of the book. Altogether, the book provides a rich texturing of the subtle nuances of feminisms and interweave by counterpointing articles across the different sub-sections and finally across disciplines." (jacket)
