Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies

This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in breathtaking ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead raising newer questions and dilemmas while unravelling the complexities of the terrain.

Auteur

Kalpana Kannabiran is Professor and Director at the Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, India. Among her book publications are Tools of Justice: Non-Discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012) and the edited volumes The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities (2005), Women and Law: Critical Feminist Perspectives (2014) and Violence Studies (2016). She has taught at NALSAR University of Law and is co-founder of Asmita Resource Centre for Women. Kannabiran has written on gender, caste, tribe, violence, disability, law and free speech and is recipient of the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research (2003) and the Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists (2012), both for her work in the field of law. She is on the editorial advisory committee of the Review of Women's Studies of Economic and Political Weekly.

Padmini Swaminathan is Professor and Chairperson of the School of Livelihoods and Development at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India. A former Director at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, she also held the Reserve Bank of India Chair in Regional Studies at MIDS. Her research work covers industrial organization, labour, occupational health and skill development, all from a perspective of gender. Her recent publications include the edited volume Women and Work (2012). She currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Gender, Technology and Development, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Entrepreneurship and the editorial advisory committee of the Review of Women's Studies of Economic and Political Weekly.

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Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: re-presenting feminist methodologies

KALPANA KANNABIRAN AND PADMINI SWAMINATHAN

PART I Mapping terrains

Section 1: Feminist journeys

1 Studying women and the women's movement in India: methods and impressions

JOAN P. MENCHER

2 'To bounce like a ball that has been hit': feminist reflections on the family

KALPANA KANNABIRAN

3 Masculinities in fieldwork: notes on feminist methodology

ROMIT CHOWDHURY

4 Real-life methods: feminist explorations of segregation in Delhi

GHAZALA JAMIL

Section 2: Unpacking disciplines

5 Stories we tell: feminism, science, methodology

BANU SUBRAMANIAM

6 Researching online worlds through a feminist lens: text, context and assemblages

USHA RAMAN AND SAI AMULYA KOMARRAJU

7 The erotics of risk: feminism and the humanities in flagrante delicto

BRINDA BOSE

8 Impractical topics, practical fields: notes on researching sexual violence in India

PRATIKSHA BAXI

PART II Exploring themes

Section 3: Development

9 Planning for modernization? feminist readings of plans and planned development in India

PADMINI SWAMINATHAN

10 Unpacking 'win-win': how feminists interrogate microfinance

K. KALPANA

11 Globalizations, mobility and agency: understanding women's lives through women's voices

BHAVANI ARABANDI

12 'Ladkiyaan phir aage?' towards understanding the formal school system

KUMKUM ROY

Section 4: Health

13 Researching assisted conception from a feminist lens

SAROJINI NADIMPALLY AND ANINDITA MAJUMDAR

14 RUWSEC Clinic: challenges faced by a grassroots feminist clinic

SUBHA SRI B. AND T.K. SUNDARI RAVINDRAN

15 Feminist critical medical anthropology methodologies: understanding gender and health care

in India

CECILIA VAN HOLLEN

Index