South Asian Feminisms in Diaspora

Amina Jamal is Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University. Jane Ku is Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology at the University of Windsor. Maryam Khan is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, and Maryam KhanSection I: Identifications and Disidentifications1: The Dialogic of Praxis by Dolores Chew2: Placing Muslim Identity: Experiences of Bangladeshi Immigrant Women Operating Businesses in Toronto by Marshia Akbar3: Transgressing Boundaries of Izzat: Resisting, Surviving, and Understanding Honour-Related Violence Through the Stories of South Asian Women by Mandeep Kaur MucinaSection II: Unpacking the Problematics4: Is Feeling Like an Imposter a “Syndrome” or a “Protective Response” to the Colonial Gaze? by Nayyer Javed5: Blurred and Bright Boundaries: Reflexive Appraisals of Pakistani Canadian Home and Host Religions and Cultures by Sarah Shah6: Exploring Diasporic Indo-Caribbean Identity Through the Ms. Marvel Series by Safiyya Hosein7: Female Terrorism in the West: The Case of Rehab Dughmosh by Kanwal Khokhar8: Speaking Out About Abuse, Patriarchy, and Misogyny against South Asian Women: An Examination of Because We Are Girls by Peruvemba S. JayaSection III: Not All Together: Gender, Sexuality, Class, and Diverse Patriarchies9: The Names We Carry with Us: Challenging the Omission of Caste and Interrogating Caste Privilege among South Asian Feminists in Canada by Sailaja Krishnamurti10: “You Are Not a Muslim”: Critically Examining South Asian-Ness and Religious Politics in the Diaspora by Ayesha Mian Akram11: Queerness and Muslimness in the Lives of South Asian Muslim Women in the Diaspora by Maryam KhanSection IV: Anti-Racist Feminism and Settler Colonialisms: Solidarities, Activism, and Futures12: On Wings of Fire: Parsi Women’s Life Stories by Farah Mahrukh Coomi Shroff13: Claiming Physical Space in a Settler Colonial Context by Aaliya Khan14: Translating Chinese Indian Nationalism as the Site of Political Intervention by Jane Ku15: Queering Islam to Root Us in Our Lived Experiences by Ameera Sultana Khan16: Afterword: Reflections on Critical Diasporic South Asian Feminisms by Sunera ThobaniContributors

"This collection deftly articulates the internal diversity among South Asian populations, the different pressures faced by South Asian women, and the challenges of inhabiting a diasporic space." Faiza Hirji, McMaster University