Gender and Race Matter

Edited by Shaminder Takhar, School of Law and Social Sciences, London South Bank University, London, UK

• PART I: WOMEN’S RIGHTS, ACTIVISM, EDUCATION AND EMPOWERMENTA Century of Egyptian Women’s Demands: The Four Waves of the Egyptian Feminist Movement - Hala KamalThe Women’s Movement and Neo-Liberalism in Iran: Between Accommodation and Resistance - Tara PoveyBangladeshi Female Students in Higher Education: ‘Agentic Autonomy’ at the Race/Gender Trajectory - Shaminder TakharWomen’s Education and Employment in Iran - Elaheh Rostami-PoveyPART II: SEXUALITY AND GENDER SECURITY: INDIA AND AFRICAGender and Caste Intersectionality in India: an Analysis of the Nirbhaya Case, 41259 - Adrija Dey and Bev Orton Negotiating Gender Security: The Transnationalisation of Local Activist Discourses in Post-Conflict Burundi and Liberia - Maria Martin De AlmagroGender Security/Sexuality in South Africa: ‘I Am HIV-Positive. How Could You Do This to Me?’ - Bev Orton PART III: WOMEN’S BODIES, NATION AND PERFORMANCEAgency, Resistance and Subversion: Voices in the Field - Jaya Gajparia Re-Mapping Women’s Testimonies into Networked Subjectivities: the Quipu Project - Donatella Maraschin and Suzanne Scafe The Body Contours of Carnival: Mas-Playing and Race in Trinidad - Kavyta RaghunandanGender in Post-Liberalisation India: The Complex Trajectories of Gender and (Postcolonial) Nationalism in Hindi Cinema - Priyasha KaulPART IV: HAVING A VOICE: LITERATURE AND POETRYMigration, African Writing and the Post-Colonial/Diasporic Chimamanda Adichie Moment - Carole Boyce Davies SUHA - Jocelyn Watson Woman with Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit) - Dorothea Smartt

Social scientists in a wide range of disciplines contribute to feminist scholarship that highlights a destabilizing of established patterns of behavior and gender relations. They cover women's rights, activism, education, and empowerment; sexuality and gender security: India and Africa; women's bodies, nation, and performance; and having a voice: literature and poetry. Among specific topics are the women's movement and neo-liberalism in Iran: between accommodation and resistance; negotiating gender security: the trans-nationalization of local activist discourses in post-conflict Burundi and Liberia, re-mapping women's testimonies into networked subjectivities: the Quipu project, the body contours of Carnival: mas-playing and race in Trinidad, and 'Women With Golden Apple (No Ordinary Fruit).'