Asian Women’s Project
Bisexual Women
Black Feminist
British South Asian Muslim Women
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Clothing Practices
cultural embodiment
Diasporic South Asian
Diasporic South Asian Film
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Female Feticide
gender
gendered diaspora research
identity performance
intersectionality studies
knowledge production critique
Middle Class Aesthetics
Newham Asian Women’s Project
Oriental Tale
postcolonial feminist theory
qualitative fieldwork methods
race
Raped Woman
Salwaar Kameez
Sex Selection
Sonar Bangla
South Asian
South Asian American Youth
South Asian Diaspora
South Asian Lesbian
South Asian Muslim Women
South Asian women
South Asian Youth
Southall Black Sisters
White America
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859736968
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Nirmal Puwar Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology,University College Northampton Parvati Raghuram International Studies Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
