Description
| Product ID: | 9781032322834 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Affective Feminisms in Digital India |
| Subtitle: | Intimate Rebels |
| Authors: | Author: Meena T Pillai |
| Page Count: | 238 |
| Subjects: | Regional / International studies, Regional studies, History, Cultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology, Impact of science and technology on society, Humanities, Cultural studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Sociology, Impact of science & technology on society, Asia, India, 21st century |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book studies digital feminist activism in contemporary India. It provides a close and comprehensive analysis of the postmillennial digital moment in India which has given rise to new modes of women’s digital dissent. This book studies digital feminist activism in contemporary India. It provides a close and comprehensive analysis of the postmillennial digital moment in India which has given rise to new modes of women’s digital dissent. The volume examines how anti-rape narratives, Feminichy scandals, #MeToo movements, and menstrual activisms, amongst a host of other performative feminist dissent and their discursive medialities create ‘affective digital feminisms’ which both break with and continue the residual and emergent practices within feminisms in India. It looks at digital womanspeak from India and focuses on vernacular forms of dissent, through which the author aims to decolonize feminist imaginaries from their moorings in the West. The author explores new digital, cultural, and social geographies where politically untamed women use their precarity to unsettle deep sexist structures and mount a gendered critique of the political economy of the nation state.
An important contribution to the study of feminism in India, the volume will be useful for students and researchers of gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, digital sociology, intersectional feminism, transnational feminism, digital humanities, and South Asian studies. It will also be appeal to readers interested in the history of women’s dissent in India. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge India |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-09-29 |
