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_bROY/N
245 0 _aNew south asian feminisms/
_bparadoxes and possibilities
_cRoy,Srila [ed.]
250 _a1st.ed.
260 _aLondon:
_bZed books,
_c2012.
300 _a198
505 _aForeword / Shirin M. Rai -- Introduction: paradoxes and possibilities / Srila Roy -- Sex workers' rights and women's movements in India: a very brief genealogy / Svati P. Shah -- AASHA's approach to instituting sexual harassment legislation in Pakistan / Sadaf Ahmad -- Family law organizations and the mediation of resources and violence in Kolkata / Srimati Basu -- Contemporary feminist politics in Bangladesh: taking the bull by the horns / Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan -- Offline issues, online lives? The emerging cyberlife of feminist politics in urban India / Trishima Mitra-Kahn -- Illusive justice: the gendered labour politics of subnationalism in Darjeeling tea plantations / Debarati Sen -- 'Speak to the women as the men have all gone': women's support networks in eastern Sri Lanka / Rebecca Walker -- Feminism in the shadow of multi-faithism: implications for South Asian women in the UK / Sukhwant Dhaliwal and Pragna Patel.
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