Songs of Desire and Defiance

Nasrin Khandoker holds a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship for her research project at University College Cork, Ireland, and previously received a Wenner-Gren Wadsworth Fellowship for her doctoral work. She is a Bangladeshi feminist anthropologist who specialises in gender studies, ethnomusicology, cultural resistance, social movements, emotions, embodiment, and the social studies of science and technology. She writes extensively for both academic audiences and the public on these issues. Her research uniquely combines anthropology, ethnomusicology, and gender studies, emphasizing the intersections of emotion, borders, and technology.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Identities and Bhawaiya in Their Subversive Margins2. Subjectivity of Deviant, Defiant and Dangerous Women3. Becoming the Woman of Bhawiaya4. Negotiating Authentic SubjectConclusionBibliographyIndex

The discourse of sensuality and romance is a timely burning issue in the scholarly investigation which her book intends to approach. This book creates a scholarly quest to deconstruct feminine agency and ‘deviance’ as a form of defiance.