Nirmal Puwar Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology,University College Northampton Parvati Raghuram International Studies Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University

'This edited collection is a rich and extensive set of interventions into the disabling paradigms within which South Asian women are located. It is an essential read.'Cultural Geographies'A significant and valuable contribution to the interconnected areas of gender, migration and identity studies.'Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology'Considering the small number of recent anthropological works on kingship, for anyone interested in the topic this is an important contribution.'Richard Feinberg, Anthropological Forum

• ContentsAcknowledgementsviiNotes on Contributorsix1(Dis)locating South Asian Women in the AcademyNirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram1Part I South Asian Women and Paradigmatic (Im)possibilities2Melodramatic Postures and ConstructionsNirmal Puwar193Still 'In Progress?' - Methodological Dilemmas, Tensions and Contradictions in Theorizing South Asian Muslim WomenFauzia Ahmad434Fashioning the South Asian Diaspora: Production and Consumption TalesParvati Raghuram675Conceptualizing Emigrant Indian Female Subjectivity: Possible Entry PointsMala Pandurang87Part II Embodying South Asian Femininities6Romantic Transgressions in the Colonial Zone: Reading Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not DieNandi Bhatia97 7Undressing the DiasporaBakirathi Mani117 8Re-producing South Asian Wom(b)en: Female Feticide and the Spectacle of CultureTej Purewal137 9Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the Nation in BangladeshNayanika Mookherjee157Part III Engagements10A Kiss is Just a Kiss. . . Or Is It? South Asian Lesbian and Bisexual Women and the Construction of SpaceRani Kawale17911'Changing Views': Theory and Practice in a Participatory Community Arts ProjectSamina Zahir19912South Asian Women and the Question of Political OrganizationShaminder Takhar21513Engendering Diasporic IdentitiesHasmita Ramji227Index243

Nirmal Puwar Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology,University College Northampton Parvati Raghuram International Studies Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University

'This edited collection is a rich and extensive set of interventions into the disabling paradigms within which South Asian women are located. It is an essential read.'Cultural Geographies'A significant and valuable contribution to the interconnected areas of gender, migration and identity studies.'Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology'Considering the small number of recent anthropological works on kingship, for anyone interested in the topic this is an important contribution.'Richard Feinberg, Anthropological Forum

• ContentsAcknowledgementsviiNotes on Contributorsix1(Dis)locating South Asian Women in the AcademyNirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram1Part I South Asian Women and Paradigmatic (Im)possibilities2Melodramatic Postures and ConstructionsNirmal Puwar193Still 'In Progress?' - Methodological Dilemmas, Tensions and Contradictions in Theorizing South Asian Muslim WomenFauzia Ahmad434Fashioning the South Asian Diaspora: Production and Consumption TalesParvati Raghuram675Conceptualizing Emigrant Indian Female Subjectivity: Possible Entry PointsMala Pandurang87Part II Embodying South Asian Femininities6Romantic Transgressions in the Colonial Zone: Reading Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not DieNandi Bhatia97 7Undressing the DiasporaBakirathi Mani117 8Re-producing South Asian Wom(b)en: Female Feticide and the Spectacle of CultureTej Purewal137 9Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the Nation in BangladeshNayanika Mookherjee157Part III Engagements10A Kiss is Just a Kiss. . . Or Is It? South Asian Lesbian and Bisexual Women and the Construction of SpaceRani Kawale17911'Changing Views': Theory and Practice in a Participatory Community Arts ProjectSamina Zahir19912South Asian Women and the Question of Political OrganizationShaminder Takhar21513Engendering Diasporic IdentitiesHasmita Ramji227Index243

Nirmal Puwar Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology,University College Northampton Parvati Raghuram International Studies Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University

'This edited collection is a rich and extensive set of interventions into the disabling paradigms within which South Asian women are located. It is an essential read.'Cultural Geographies'A significant and valuable contribution to the interconnected areas of gender, migration and identity studies.'Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology'Considering the small number of recent anthropological works on kingship, for anyone interested in the topic this is an important contribution.'Richard Feinberg, Anthropological Forum

• ContentsAcknowledgementsviiNotes on Contributorsix1(Dis)locating South Asian Women in the AcademyNirmal Puwar and Parvati Raghuram1Part I South Asian Women and Paradigmatic (Im)possibilities2Melodramatic Postures and ConstructionsNirmal Puwar193Still 'In Progress?' - Methodological Dilemmas, Tensions and Contradictions in Theorizing South Asian Muslim WomenFauzia Ahmad434Fashioning the South Asian Diaspora: Production and Consumption TalesParvati Raghuram675Conceptualizing Emigrant Indian Female Subjectivity: Possible Entry PointsMala Pandurang87Part II Embodying South Asian Femininities6Romantic Transgressions in the Colonial Zone: Reading Mircea Eliade's Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi's It Does Not DieNandi Bhatia97 7Undressing the DiasporaBakirathi Mani117 8Re-producing South Asian Wom(b)en: Female Feticide and the Spectacle of CultureTej Purewal137 9Gendered Embodiments: Mapping the Body-Politic of the Raped Woman and the Nation in BangladeshNayanika Mookherjee157Part III Engagements10A Kiss is Just a Kiss. . . Or Is It? South Asian Lesbian and Bisexual Women and the Construction of SpaceRani Kawale17911'Changing Views': Theory and Practice in a Participatory Community Arts ProjectSamina Zahir19912South Asian Women and the Question of Political OrganizationShaminder Takhar21513Engendering Diasporic IdentitiesHasmita Ramji227Index243