MEGHA ANWER is a clinical assistant Professor in the Honors College at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Culture, Victorian Studies, Global South, ARIEL, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Short Film Studies, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, and Wide-Screen.
ANUPAMA ARORA is professor of English and women's and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She is co-editor (with Rajender Kaur) of India in the American Imaginary 1780s-1880s.

Introduction

Part I Family and Nation

1. Koel Banerjee and Jigna Desai, "Mompreneur in the Multiplex: Entrepreneurial Technologies of the "New Woman" Subject in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization"

2. Sangita Gopal, "Lethal Acts: Bollywood's new woman and the Nirbhaya Effect"

3. Baidurya Chakrabarti, "Beyond the Couple Form: The Space of the New Woman in Yash Raj Films"

4. Aparajita De, "Mera Saaya: Shadows of the Woman in Bollywood's Cultural Imagination"

Part II Body Matters

5. Gohar Siddiqui, "New Womanhood and #LipstickRebellion: Feminist Consciousness in Lipstick Under My Burkha"

6. Debadatta Chakraborty, "Queering Bollywood: Sexuality of the disabled Body - A Case Study"

7. Ajay Gehlawat, "Plus-size Femininity: The Multiple Figurations of Bhumi Pednekar"

8. Puja Sen, "The Many Bodies of Vidya Balan: The Dirty Picture, Kahaani, and Tumhari Sulu"

Part III Geographies of the New Woman

9. Anjali Ram, "Out of India: Educating the New Woman in Queen, EnglishVinglish, and Badrinath ki Dulhaniya"

10. Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey, "Learning to Love The(ir) World: Using Feminist Spaces and Cosmopolitan Impulses against the Heteropatriarchy in Queen and English Vinglish"

11. Namrata Rele Sathe, "Single in the City: The Female Flâneur in Queen"

12. Madhavi Biswas, "Dedh Ishqiyaand Ishqiya "Glocal Women: Gender, Genre, and Performance in Abhishek Chaubey's Part IV New Media and the New Woman

13. Kuhu Tanvir, "All Broken Up and Dancing: Looking at Katrina Kaif in eight GIFs"

14. Tanushree Ghosh, "Reshaping 'Bollywood': Dissident New Media Femininities and Hindi Cinema"

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index