Editors:
- Draws upon intellectual contributions to include women from different religions, classes and minority caste backgrounds
- Provides a comparative perspective on the ‘new woman’ as an object in literature and the media and the ‘new woman’ as a subject negotiating with various social forces in everyday lives
- Includes contributions on literature, TV plays and advertisements, matters of dress and conduct and education
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Politics of Representation: New Woman in Literature and the Media
-
Front Matter
-
-
New Women Subjects in Everyday Life: Practices of Gender, Sexuality, Class, Culture and Religion
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
About this book
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.
Reviews
“Challenging our prevailing understandings of womanhood, Islam, feminism, and identity, this book makes a crucial contribution.” (Smitha Radhakrishnan, Wellesley College, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
-
Department of Sociology, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nazia Hussein
About the editor
Nazia Hussein is Lecturer in Sociology, Birmingham City University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking New Womanhood
Book Subtitle: Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia
Editors: Nazia Hussein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67900-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-67899-3Published: 20 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09816-2Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-67900-6Published: 09 April 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 231
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Women's Studies, Asian Culture, Culture and Gender, Culture and Gender, Social Structure, Social Inequality