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Feminist Politics, Intersectionality and Knowledge Cultivation, Radhika Govinda engages with intersectionality - as critical theory, as critical methodology and as critical pedagogy - to make sense of feminist politics in India and beyond, and knowledge-making on feminist politics, as such.
List of contents
Introduction: Intersectionality, Coloniality and Feminist Knowledge Cultivation: Contours and Context
1. 'Third World Woman', Feminism and Empire
2. Doing Women's and Gender Studies in Contemporary India and the UK: Interrogating Margins and Marginalisation
3. 'Mirror Mirror on the Wall...' Decolonising Feminist Classrooms: The Promise and Perils of Intersectional Pedagogy
4. Beyond Tropes: Dalit Women's Diverse Narratives of Agency and Activism from Rural North India
5. In Pursuit of 'Southern Feminism'? Intersectionality, Coloniality and NGO-led Feminist Activism in India
6. Towards a Renewal of Feminist Politics? 'Bad Girls', Everyday Sexual Harassment and Activist Campaigns in Millennial India
7. From the Rear-View Mirror of the Taxi-Driver? Masculinity, Marginality and 'Rape Culture' in Urban India
8. 'First Our Fields, Now Our Women' Questions of Honour, Patriarchy and Intersectional Politics in Delhi's Urban Villages
Conclusion: Insights, Dilemmas and Hopes in Knowledge-making on Feminist Politics - A Meditation
About the author
Radhika Govinda is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, UK and the Director of GENDER.ED - the University's interdisciplinary hub for gender and sexualities studies. Her research and teaching bridge the fields of sociology of gender, international development and South Asian Studies. She is co-editor of
Doing Feminisms in the Academy, and
Gender in South Asia and Beyond.
Summary
In Feminist Politics, Intersectionality and Knowledge Cultivation, Radhika Govinda engages with intersectionality – as critical theory, as critical methodology and as critical pedagogy – to make sense of feminist politics in India and beyond, and knowledge-making on feminist politics, as such.
