Gendered (In)visibilities

Socio-Political Activism in and from South Asia
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-98285-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Politics and Society in India and the Global South

This book examines women's political and social participation across colonial and postcolonial contexts, showing how gendered activism has both shaped and been shaped by shifting political, cultural, and ideological currents. The volume interrogates how women's political and social labour is rendered invisible or obscured in archives, movements, and media. Bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives from history, politics, anthropology, and gender and subaltern studies, its chapters trace women's roles in anti-colonial, revolutionary, feminist, Dalit, indigenous, and right-wing campaigns.

By exploring continuities and ruptures in the (in)visibilisation of women's agency, the collection offers a critical intervention into debates on representation, power, and historiography in South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of gender studies, political science, modern history, legal history, social policy, and sociology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Framke, Maria

Titzmann, Fritzi-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Gendered (In)visibilities. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Activism Part A: Historicising (In)Visibility 1) Rethinking Solidarities in Nationalist Struggles: A Case Study of South Africa and India 2) Gender, nationalism and student activism: female-only students' associations in colonial Bengal (late 1920s) 3) Hidden Histories: Krishnabai Nimbkar and the Question of Rural Development in India 4) Debating Patriarchy, Debating Feminism: Late 20th Century Telugu Discourse on the Women’s Question Part B: (In)Visible Modes of Contemporary Activism 5) Nuclear invisibilities: Feminised performativities of dissent in Koodankulam 6) Governing on the Margins: Gendered Processes of Invisibility and Women’s Political Activism in Rural Sri Lanka 7) The ‘Empowered’ mahila karyakarta: Gender and Party Politics in the Bharatiya Janata Party 8) Local Lens, Global Vision: South Asian Women Architects Pioneering Critical Regionalism

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Framke is a historian of modern South Asia at Rostock University, Germany. Maria’s research and publications cover the history of international organizations, imperial and nationalist politics and humanitarianism, development and gender in the 20th century.

Fritzi-Marie Titzmann is a scholar specializing in gender, media, and social movements, with a particular focus on contemporary South Asia. She holds a Ph.D. in South Asian Studies from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has over 15 years of research and teaching experience.