New South Asian Feminisms

Srila Roy is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement (2012). She serves on the executive committee of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association, UK.

• Foreword by Shirin M. RaiIntroduction: paradoxes and possibilities - Srila Roy1. Sex workers' rights and women's movements in India: a very brief genealogy - Svati P. Shah2. AASHA's approach to instituting sexual harassment legislation in Pakistan - Sadaf Ahmad3. Family law organizations and the mediation of resources and violence in Kolkata - Srimati Basu4. Contemporary feminist politics in Bangladesh: taking the bull by the horns - Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan5. Offline issues, online lives? The emerging cyberlife of feminist politics in urban India - Trishima Mitra-Kahn6. Illusive justice: the gendered labour politics of subnationalism in Darjeeling tea plantations - Debarati Sen7. 'Speak to the women as the men have all gone': women's support networks in eastern Sri Lanka - Rebecca Walker8. Feminism in the shadow of multi-faithism: implications for South Asian women in the UK - Sukhwant Dhaliwal and Pragna Patel

The book encourages thoughtful reflection on the complexity of the issues before feminism in South Asia, their evolving nature, and the need for vigilance and care in interpreting women’s different oppressions and the interrelationships and interactions among these.