Includes bibliographical references and index.

Gendered nationalism : from women to gender and back again? / Mrinalini Sinha -- Construction of gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Muslim Bengal : the writings of Nawab / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan -- Gender, women and partition : literary representations, refugee women and partition studies / Paulomi Chakraborty -- The contact zones of intersectionality : inequality and knowledge production on India / Leela Fernandes -- Dalit feminist thought / Shailaja Paik -- Brahmanical ignorance and dominant Indian feminism's origin stories / Dia D'Costa -- Gender and citizenship in India / Anupama Roy -- Gender, activism and democratic politics in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin -- Law, sex work and activism in India / Prabha Kotiswaran -- The Supreme Court of India and maintenance for Muslim women : transformatory jurisprudence / Vrinda Narain -- Female militancy : reflections from Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama -- Weaponizing women : Kashmir and the Indian military occupation / Ather Zia -- The political economy of moral regulation in Pakistan : religion, gender and class in a postcolonial context / Saadia Toor -- Gender, media and popular culture in a global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- Death and friendship : queer archives of the space between / Naisargi Dave -- Women's place-making in Santosh Nagar : gendered constellations / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Vernacular frames queer encounters / Navaneetha Mokil -- Global governance initiatives and garment sector workers in Sri Lanka : tracing its gender and development politics / Kanchana Ruwanpura -- An intersection of Marxism and feminism among India's informal workers : a second marriage? / Rina Agarwala -- A feminist commodity chain analysis of rural transformation in contemporary India / Priti Ramamurthy -- NGOs, state and neoliberal development in South Asia : the paradigmatic case of Bangladesh in a global perspective / Lamia Karim -- Gender and paid domestic work in Sri Lanka / Annemari de Silva -- The Aurat march : women's movements and new feminisms in Pakistan / Shama Dossa -- Feminism, sexual violence and the times of #MeToo in India / Mary John -- Dalit women between social and analytical alterity : rethinking the 'quintessentially marginal' / Manuela Ciotti -- Feminism, sexuality and the rhetoric of westernization in Pakistan : precarious citizenship / Moon Charania -- Mapping women's activism in India : resistances, reforms and (re)-creation / Rukmini Sen.

"This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia. The Handbook covers the central contributions that have defined this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives spanning both the humanities and social sciences, focussing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The revised edition is thoroughly updated and includes new chapters, thus adding new areas of scholarship. The handbook is organised thematically in five major sections: Historical Formations and Theoretical Framings; Law Citizenship and the Nation; Representations of Culture, Place, Identity; Labor and the Economy; Inequality, Activism and the State. The Handbook illustrates the ways in which scholarship on gender has contributed to a rethinking of theoretical concepts and empirical understandings of contemporary South Asia. Finally, it focuses on new areas of inquiry that have been opened up through a focus on gender and the intersections between gender and categories such as caste, ethnicity, sexuality and religion. This timely survey is essential reading for scholars who research and teach on South Asia as well as for scholars in related interdisciplinary fields that focus on women and gender from comparative and transnational perspectives"--

English.