This book examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films and graphic narratives to narratives of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, the book resists gendered violence and champions women’s right to mobility.
This book examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films and graphic narratives to narratives of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, the book resists gendered violence and champions women’s right to mobility.
SwathiKrishna S. is assistant professor of English in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management at IIT Bhubaneswar, India. Srirupa Chatterjee is associate professor of English in the Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Hyderabad, India.
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Introduction: Hostile Terrains, Empowering Textual Spaces: Neoliberal Literature and the Female Traveler Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee Chapter 1. No Longer Innocent: Male Gaze, Violence, and Female Kinship in Kishwar Desai's The Sea of Innocence Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee Chapter 2. Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Jana Fedtke Chapter 3. Mirrors of Reality: Toxic Masculinity, Traveling Women, and The Representation of Acid Attack Victim-Survivors in Priya's Mirror Nidhi Shrivastava Part II: Bollywood's Traveling Women (I): Misogyny, Roads, and Female Vulnerability Chapter 4. Stepping Out: Global Bollywood, Gendered Landscape, and Undercurrents of Neo-liberal Pleasures Madhuja Mukherjee Chapter 5. Celluloid Women Rewriting Rules of Travel in Contemporary Hindi Cinema Rima Bhattacharya Part III: Bollywood's Traveling Women (II): Vexed Dualities of Freedom and Fear Chapter 6. The Conditional Promise of Empowerment and Pleasure: An Intersectional Analysis of Hindi Film Portrayals of Women Navigating Public Spaces in India Uttara Manohar Chapter 7. Traveling Women and their Male Companions: Framing Risks and Vulnerabilities in Indian Road Films Pronoti Baglary Part IV: Troubles of the Outdoorsy Woman: Multiple Genres/Multiple Voices Chapter 8. Roads, Dreams, and Violence: Tracing the Mental Landscape of India's Domestic Workers Bonnie Zare and Ditto Prasad Chapter 9. Negotiating Violence and Traversing the City: Female Vulnerability in Delhi Crime (2019) and She (2020) Shreya Rastogi and Srirupa Chatterjee Part V: Struggle for Survival: Working Women and Pitfalls of Indian Roads Chapter 10. Working Night Shifts, Traversing Neoliberal Roads: Spatial-Temporal Confluence and the Male Gaze Sucharita Sen Chapter 11. Women Journalists Negotiating Space in India's 'Small' Cities" Ranu Tomar Part VI: Traveling Solo, Traveling Strong: Women Braving Neoliberal Roads Chapter 12. Travel with Care: Reinforcing Patriarchy through Tips for Solo Female Travelers in India Kiranpreet Kaur Baath Conclusion
Introduction: Hostile Terrains, Empowering Textual Spaces: Neoliberal Literature and the Female Traveler Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee Chapter 1. No Longer Innocent: Male Gaze, Violence, and Female Kinship in Kishwar Desai's The Sea of Innocence Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee Chapter 2. Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness Jana Fedtke Chapter 3. Mirrors of Reality: Toxic Masculinity, Traveling Women, and The Representation of Acid Attack Victim-Survivors in Priya's Mirror Nidhi Shrivastava Part II: Bollywood's Traveling Women (I): Misogyny, Roads, and Female Vulnerability Chapter 4. Stepping Out: Global Bollywood, Gendered Landscape, and Undercurrents of Neo-liberal Pleasures Madhuja Mukherjee Chapter 5. Celluloid Women Rewriting Rules of Travel in Contemporary Hindi Cinema Rima Bhattacharya Part III: Bollywood's Traveling Women (II): Vexed Dualities of Freedom and Fear Chapter 6. The Conditional Promise of Empowerment and Pleasure: An Intersectional Analysis of Hindi Film Portrayals of Women Navigating Public Spaces in India Uttara Manohar Chapter 7. Traveling Women and their Male Companions: Framing Risks and Vulnerabilities in Indian Road Films Pronoti Baglary Part IV: Troubles of the Outdoorsy Woman: Multiple Genres/Multiple Voices Chapter 8. Roads, Dreams, and Violence: Tracing the Mental Landscape of India's Domestic Workers Bonnie Zare and Ditto Prasad Chapter 9. Negotiating Violence and Traversing the City: Female Vulnerability in Delhi Crime (2019) and She (2020) Shreya Rastogi and Srirupa Chatterjee Part V: Struggle for Survival: Working Women and Pitfalls of Indian Roads Chapter 10. Working Night Shifts, Traversing Neoliberal Roads: Spatial-Temporal Confluence and the Male Gaze Sucharita Sen Chapter 11. Women Journalists Negotiating Space in India's 'Small' Cities" Ranu Tomar Part VI: Traveling Solo, Traveling Strong: Women Braving Neoliberal Roads Chapter 12. Travel with Care: Reinforcing Patriarchy through Tips for Solo Female Travelers in India Kiranpreet Kaur Baath Conclusion
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