Feminism Today: Course Material and Reader
The reader offers a map of the contemporary terrain of feminism and its history in the Indian context that could be used as teaching material for students at the post-graduate level. An objective of the reader is to introduce a new generation of readers to new issues and discussions in the women’s movement.
The reader draws on a wide range of texts -- from film songs to matrimonial columns, from popular television serials to chat-room discussions -- so that it can speak to a larger audience interested in understanding the experience of gender in India today. The reader is divided into three sections: Growing Up, Body and Relationships. Some of the questions it seeks to engage with are: how have sexuality, the politics of intimate relationships, the opening up of the singular category of ‘woman’, or the gendering of public spaces become crucial issues in the feminist debates in India today? What are the inter-linkages of feminism with the caste question and communalism? The feminist reader has been edited by Dr. Navaneetha Mokkil and Shefali Jha. The volume is in press and is likely to be available mid 2011.