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Gendered Violence in Public Spaces

Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India

Swathi Krishna S. (Anthology Editor) , Srirupa Chatterjee (Anthology Editor) , Pronoti Baglary (Contributor) , Rima Bhattacharya (Contributor) , Srirupa Chatterjee (Contributor) , Jana Fedtke (Contributor) ,
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Gendered Violence in Public Spaces

Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India

Swathi Krishna S. (Anthology Editor) , Srirupa Chatterjee (Anthology Editor) , Pronoti Baglary (Contributor) , Rima Bhattacharya (Contributor) , Srirupa Chatterjee (Contributor) , Jana Fedtke (Contributor) ,
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Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through an analysis of narrative representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films, and graphic narratives to accounts of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, this collection initiates a scholarly discussion on manifold forms of emotional, mental, epistemic, and above all sexual violence female travelers face in male-dominated public spaces. Gendered Violence in Public Spaces therefore challenges contemporary readers to re-frame India’s public spaces against misogyny and gendered violence.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hostile Terrains, Empowering Textual Spaces: Neoliberal Literature and the Female Traveler
Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee

Chapter 1. No Longer Innocent: Male Gaze, Violence, and Female Kinship in Kishwar Desai’s The Sea of Innocence
Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee

Chapter 2. Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Jana Fedtke

Chapter 3. Mirrors of Reality: Toxic Masculinity, Traveling Women, and The Representation of Acid Attack Victim-Survivors in Priya’s Mirror

Nidhi Shrivastava

Part II: Bollywood’s Traveling Women (I): Misogyny, Roads, and Female Vulnerability

Chapter 4. Stepping Out: Global Bollywood, Gendered Landscape, and Undercurrents of Neo-liberal Pleasures
Madhuja Mukherjee

Chapter 5. Celluloid Women Rewriting Rules of Travel in Contemporary Hindi Cinema
Rima Bhattacharya

Part III: Bollywood’s Traveling Women (II): Vexed Dualities of Freedom and Fear

Chapter 6. The Conditional Promise of Empowerment and Pleasure: An Intersectional Analysis of Hindi Film Portrayals of Women Navigating Public Spaces in India
Uttara Manohar

Chapter 7. Traveling Women and their Male Companions: Framing Risks and Vulnerabilities in Indian Road Films
Pronoti Baglary

Part IV: Troubles of the Outdoorsy Woman: Multiple Genres/Multiple Voices

Chapter 8. Roads, Dreams, and Violence: Tracing the Mental Landscape of India’s Domestic Workers
Bonnie Zare and Ditto Prasad

Chapter 9. Negotiating Violence and Traversing the City: Female Vulnerability in Delhi Crime (2019) and She (2020)
Shreya Rastogi and Srirupa Chatterjee

Part V: Struggle for Survival: Working Women and Pitfalls of Indian Roads

Chapter 10. Working Night Shifts, Traversing Neoliberal Roads: Spatial-Temporal Confluence and the Male Gaze
Sucharita Sen

Chapter 11. Women Journalists Negotiating Space in India’s ‘Small’ Cities”
Ranu Tomar

Part VI: Traveling Solo, Traveling Strong: Women Braving Neoliberal Roads

Chapter 12. Travel with Care: Reinforcing Patriarchy through Tips for Solo Female Travelers in India
Kiranpreet Kaur Baath

Conclusion

Product details

Published Oct 10 2023
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 274
ISBN 9781666902327
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 2 b/w photos
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

SS
Anthology Editor

Swathi Krishna S.

SC
Anthology Editor

Srirupa Chatterjee

PB
Contributor

Pronoti Baglary

RB
Contributor

Rima Bhattacharya

SC
Contributor

Srirupa Chatterjee

JF
Contributor

Jana Fedtke

KB
Contributor

Kiranpreet Kaur Baath

SS
Contributor

Swathi Krishna S.

UM
Contributor

Uttara Manohar

MM
Contributor

Madhuja Mukherjee

DP
Contributor

Ditto Prasad

SR
Contributor

Shreya Rastogi

SS
Contributor

Sucharita Sen

NS
Contributor

Nidhi Shrivastava

RT
Contributor

Ranu Tomar

BZ
Contributor

Bonnie Zare

SP
Foreword

Shilpa Phadke

Reviews

  • What happens to women who travel? To those who transgress into male dominated spaces (e.g. the world)? Gendered Violence in Public Spaces provides insights into these questions. Comprised of 12 beautifully written chapters, the book explores how women’s travel has been represented through literature, film, and print. Anxiety, anticipation, joy, risk, comfort, violence, vulnerability, and danger – these are all things the reader will encounter in this book which makes a valuable contribution to feminist geography, literature and media studies.

    Kaitlynn Mendes, University of Western Ontario

  • Gendered Violence in Public Spaces makes an important contribution to the study of women’s writing from India that interrogates the vulnerability of women in public spaces. In bringing together theorization of space along with the work of feminist geographers, this book provides excellent readings of a range of literary texts, films, and television shows. This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of South Asian, feminist, and literary scholars.

    Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, Seattle University

  • Compelling and lucid, this anthology often veers into policy debates on reclaiming India’s public spaces rife with misogyny and sexual violence for the empowered female traveler. Its innovative and original approach brings value-addition to scholarship on female empowerment in the Indian subcontinent.

    Gurumurthy Neelakantan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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