Transcultural Negotiations of Gender Studies in (Be)longing
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how gender is negotiated along the two axes of ‘belonging’ and ‘longing’– the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It
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anscultural Negotiations of Gender Studies in (Be)longing
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender
Saugata Bhaduri · Indrani Mukherjee Editors
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender Studies in (Be)longing
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Editors Saugata Bhaduri Centre for English Studies School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
Indrani Mukherjee Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi India
ISBN 978-81-322-2436-5 ISBN 978-81-322-2437-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2437-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015945604 Springer New Delhi Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer India 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer (India) Pvt. Ltd. is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)longing comprises revised versions of 20 selected peer-reviewed papers from scholars from India and abroad—both well-established academics and researchers from premier institutes—presented at an international conference on “Gender Studies: Expanding Horizons of Trans/Inter-Culturality”, coordinated by the two editors of this volume (i.e. the two of us, both from the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), in collaboration with the Indian Council for Social Science Research, held on 7 and 8 March 2013. When we decided to organize the conference, we were not very sure where we were headed, or what the ultimate shape of the output of the conference would be like. Committed as we both were to issues of gender and sexuality, and convinced as we both were that gender relations are indeed getting continuously re-negotiated, and corollarily the field of gender studies is itself continuously expanding, in this increasingly trans/inter-cultural world of ours, we thought of simpl
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