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Gendered citizenship : manifestations and performance / edited by Bishnupriya Dutt, Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhla Sahai. - xx, 345 p. : illu ; 22 cm

1. Introduction Bishnupriya Dutt , Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhla Sahai;
Part I. Citizenship, Law and Rights: How is Citizenship Gendered? ;
2. The dilemmas of performative citizenship/Shirin M. Rai;
3. Making citizenship familiar: truth tales and the partition archive(s)/Anupama Roy;
4. When state policy refracts the mother/Amrita Nandy and Sneha Banerjee ;
5. Spaces of appearance, politics of exposure: queer publics, sexual justice and activism in Eastern Europe and India/Ameet Parameswaran and Milija Gluhovic ;
6. Mapping the nation: performance art in India and narratives of nationalism and citizenship/Shrinkhla Sahai ;
7. Traversing sites, traversing history: practicing citizenship through art/Anuradha Kapur ;
Part II. Media, Market, Commodification: Challenging the Vulnerability of Women;
8. Unmasking the face of gendered citizenship: Anupama Chandrasekhar s acid and free outgoing/Elaine Aston ;
9. The legal unspeakable: rape in 1980s Bombay Cinema/Ranjani Mazumdar;
10. Murderous maids: reading contemporary migrant domestic labour through genet s maids/Silvija Jestrovic;
11 India s Daughter in India: old questions, new answers?/Nivedita Menon
12. The Glasgow girls: many faces of child asylum seekers/Susan Haedicke;
Part III. Violence Against Women: Rescue , Resistance and Empowerment ;
13. Is a trafficked woman a citizen? Survival and citizenship in performance/Janelle Reinelt;
14. Processing vulnerability, trauma and recovery for women victims: rehabilitation through tools from performance/Urmimala Sarkar Munsi;
15. Becoming citizens: loss and desire in the social reintegration of guerrilla ex-combatants in Colombia/María Estrada-Fuentes;
16. Laws and marginalised bodies: sex trafficking, child labour and circus as a site of negotiations/Aastha Gandhi and Bishnupriya Dutt
17. Sexuate agency and relationality in witnessing Kashmir violence/Inshah Malik and Manola K. Gayatri. Epilogue: The Artist As Citizen: Resisting Official History;
Index.


ISBN: 9789352871971 (hbk.)

Source: Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office

LCCN: 2017350405

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Performing arts--Political aspects.
Gender identity--Political aspects.
Theater--Political aspects.
Theater and society.
Feminism and theater.
Women--Intellectual life.

Dewey Class. No.: 323.6 DUT