This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and performed across national and regional boundaries. Using citizenship as its organizing concept, it is a collection of multidisciplinary approaches to legal, socio-cultural and performative aspects of gender construction and identity: violence against women, victimhood and agency, and everyday issues of socialization in a globalized world. It brings together scholars of politics, media, and performance who are committed to dialogue across both nation and discipline.
This study is the culmination of a two-year project on the topic of 'Gendered Citizenship', arising from an international collaboration that has sought to develop a comparative and yet singular perspective on performance in relation to key political themes facing our countries of origin in the early decades of this century. The research is interdisciplinary and multinational, drawing on Indian, European, and North and South America
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Part I Citizenship, Law, and Rights: How is Citizenship Gendered? |
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2 The Dilemmas of Performative Citizenship |
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3 Making Citizenship Familiar: `Truth' Tales and the Partition Archive(s) |
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4 When State Policy Refracts the Mother |
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5 Spaces of Appearance, Politics of Exposure: Queer Publics, Sexual Justice and Activism in Eastern Europe and India |
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6 Mapping the Nation: Performance Art in India and Narratives of Nationalism and Citizenship |
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7 Traversing Sites, Traversing History: Practising Citizenship Through Art |
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Part II Media, Market, Commodification: Challenging the Vulnerability of Women |
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8 Unmasking the Face of Gendered Citizenship: Anupama Chandrasekhar's Acid and Free Outgoing |
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9 The Legal Unspeakable: Rape in 1980s Bombay Cinema |
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10 Murderous Maids: Reading Contemporary Migrant Domestic Labour Through Genet's Maids |
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11 India's Daughter in India: Old Questions, New Answers? |
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12 The Glasgow Girls: Many Faces of Child Asylum Seekers |
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Part III Violence Against Women: `Rescue', Resistance and `Empowerment' |
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13 Is a Trafficked Woman a Citizen? Survival and Citizenship in Performance |
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14 `Processing' Vulnerability, Trauma and Recovery for Women Victims: Rehabilitation Through Tools from Performance |
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15 Becoming Citizens: Loss and Desire in the Social Reintegration of Guerrilla Ex-Combatants in Colombia |
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16 Laws and Marginalised Bodies: Sex Trafficking, Child Labour and Circus as a Site of Negotiations |
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17 Sexuate Agency and Relationality in Witnessing Kashmir Violence |
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| Epilogue: The Artist As Citizen: Resisting Official History |
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Bishnupriya Dutt is Professor and Dean in the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and serves on the executive committee of IFTR.
Janelle Reinelt is Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, and former President of IFTR.
Shrinkhla Sahai is completing her PhD at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and is an independent media critic, radio professional and dancer in Delhi.
