Roy Srila Roy

Changing the Subject (eBook, PDF)

Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India

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Produktbeschreibung

In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India's liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development and NGOs signaled the co-optation and depoliticization of struggles for women's rights, even as they amplified the visibility and vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of activist and NGO work around issues of gender and sexuality through a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other on rural women's empowerment. Tracing changes in feminist governmentality that were entangled in transnational neoliberalism, Roy shows how historical and highly local feminist currents shaped contemporary queer and nonqueer neoliberal feminisms. The interplay between historic techniques of activist governance and queer feminist governmentality's focus on changing the self offers a new way of knowing feminism-both as always already co-opted and as a transformative force in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478023517
• Artikelnr.: 66282617

Autorenporträt

Srila Roy is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India’s Naxalbari Movement, and editor of New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Preface: We, Feminists  xi
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction. Changing the Subject of Indian Feminism  1
1. Indian Feminism in the New Millennium: Co-optation, Entanglement,
Intersection  26
2. Queer Activism as Governmentality: Regulating Lesbians, Making Queer  47
3. Queer Self-Fashioning: In, out of, and beyond the Closet  77
4. Feminist Governmentality: Entangled Histories and Empowered Women  101
5. Subaltern Self-Government: Precarious Transformations  132
Conclusion. On Critique and Care  160
Notes  177
References  215
Index  243