Sonora Jha is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Seattle University.　Alka Kurian is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, USA.

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• Introduction (Sonora Jha and Alka Kurian) Part 1: Theoretical Imaginings and Context 1. Sex Wars and the Return to the Autonomous: Theoretical Imaginings on the Fourth Wave Feminisms in South Asia (Alka Kurian)2. From Mathura to Jyoti: Mapping Public Protests and Anti-Rape Laws in India(Bidisha Biswas)Part 2: Social Media3. Gathering Online, Loitering Offline: Hashtag Activism and the Claim for Public Space by Women in India Through the #WhyLoiter Campaign (Sonora Jha)4. From Bombay Dost to Global Host: Mobile Imaginings of Cybergaysians in Contemporary Queer India (Rahul Gairola)5. Writing New Sastras: notes towards building an Indian feminist archive (Padmini Ray Murray)6. The two faces of Afghan women: Oppressed and exotic (Shahnaz Khan)Part 3: Film7. Feminist Masculinism: Imagined Response to Violence Against Women in Pradeep Sarkar’s Hindi Film, Mardaani (Shreerekha Subramanian)8. Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan (Amrita Ghosh)9. Gender, War, and Resistance: Documentary Cinemas of Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Nepal (Alka Kurian) 10. Queering South Asia? Deviant sexualities and the role of the Indian media in shaping perceptions. (Shoba Sharad Rajgopal)11. The Complexities of Transnational Female Solidarity in Driving with Selvi (Rajni Srikanth)12. Ethical Encounters: Friendship, Reckoning, and Healing in Shameem Akhtar’s Daughters of History (1999) (Elora Chowdhury)Part 4: Literature13. Beyond Violence: South Asian American Feminism in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland(Nalini Iyer)14. The Whole Inside the Hole: Recent Telugu Dalit Women’s Revolutionary Life Writing (Bonnie Zare)

Sonora Jha is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Seattle University.　Alka Kurian is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, USA.

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• Introduction (Sonora Jha and Alka Kurian) Part 1: Theoretical Imaginings and Context 1. Sex Wars and the Return to the Autonomous: Theoretical Imaginings on the Fourth Wave Feminisms in South Asia (Alka Kurian)2. From Mathura to Jyoti: Mapping Public Protests and Anti-Rape Laws in India(Bidisha Biswas)Part 2: Social Media3. Gathering Online, Loitering Offline: Hashtag Activism and the Claim for Public Space by Women in India Through the #WhyLoiter Campaign (Sonora Jha)4. From Bombay Dost to Global Host: Mobile Imaginings of Cybergaysians in Contemporary Queer India (Rahul Gairola)5. Writing New Sastras: notes towards building an Indian feminist archive (Padmini Ray Murray)6. The two faces of Afghan women: Oppressed and exotic (Shahnaz Khan)Part 3: Film7. Feminist Masculinism: Imagined Response to Violence Against Women in Pradeep Sarkar’s Hindi Film, Mardaani (Shreerekha Subramanian)8. Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan (Amrita Ghosh)9. Gender, War, and Resistance: Documentary Cinemas of Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Nepal (Alka Kurian) 10. Queering South Asia? Deviant sexualities and the role of the Indian media in shaping perceptions. (Shoba Sharad Rajgopal)11. The Complexities of Transnational Female Solidarity in Driving with Selvi (Rajni Srikanth)12. Ethical Encounters: Friendship, Reckoning, and Healing in Shameem Akhtar’s Daughters of History (1999) (Elora Chowdhury)Part 4: Literature13. Beyond Violence: South Asian American Feminism in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland(Nalini Iyer)14. The Whole Inside the Hole: Recent Telugu Dalit Women’s Revolutionary Life Writing (Bonnie Zare)

Sonora Jha is Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Seattle University.　Alka Kurian is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, USA.

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• Introduction (Sonora Jha and Alka Kurian) Part 1: Theoretical Imaginings and Context 1. Sex Wars and the Return to the Autonomous: Theoretical Imaginings on the Fourth Wave Feminisms in South Asia (Alka Kurian)2. From Mathura to Jyoti: Mapping Public Protests and Anti-Rape Laws in India(Bidisha Biswas)Part 2: Social Media3. Gathering Online, Loitering Offline: Hashtag Activism and the Claim for Public Space by Women in India Through the #WhyLoiter Campaign (Sonora Jha)4. From Bombay Dost to Global Host: Mobile Imaginings of Cybergaysians in Contemporary Queer India (Rahul Gairola)5. Writing New Sastras: notes towards building an Indian feminist archive (Padmini Ray Murray)6. The two faces of Afghan women: Oppressed and exotic (Shahnaz Khan)Part 3: Film7. Feminist Masculinism: Imagined Response to Violence Against Women in Pradeep Sarkar’s Hindi Film, Mardaani (Shreerekha Subramanian)8. Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partition Pakistan (Amrita Ghosh)9. Gender, War, and Resistance: Documentary Cinemas of Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Nepal (Alka Kurian) 10. Queering South Asia? Deviant sexualities and the role of the Indian media in shaping perceptions. (Shoba Sharad Rajgopal)11. The Complexities of Transnational Female Solidarity in Driving with Selvi (Rajni Srikanth)12. Ethical Encounters: Friendship, Reckoning, and Healing in Shameem Akhtar’s Daughters of History (1999) (Elora Chowdhury)Part 4: Literature13. Beyond Violence: South Asian American Feminism in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland(Nalini Iyer)14. The Whole Inside the Hole: Recent Telugu Dalit Women’s Revolutionary Life Writing (Bonnie Zare)