Aishika Chakraborty is Professor and Director of the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, India.

Nandita Banerjee Dhawan is an Associate Professor at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University, India.

Introduction

Part 1: Cultures of Exclusion, Narratives of Protest
1. Sweat and Salt on Broken Skin: Examining the Culture of Silence around Sexual Harassment in Classical Indian Dance Pedagogy
2. "Tonite and Everynite": Gender, Class, and Performance in Calcutta Nightlife (1940s-1980s)
3. In Good Hands: "Mobilisation" as a Collective Tool for Collective Praxis
4. Women's Assertion and a New Space for Citizenship: Shaheen Bagh

Part 2: (Im)pure Bodies, (Il)legitimate Realities
5. Outside the Frame: Disabled Women in Urban Spaces
6. Against the Odds: Gendered Politics of Labour, Infrastructure, and Claim-Making in Kolkata's Poor Localities
7. Gendered Embodiment: The Everyday Lived Experiences of Transmen
8. Reproductive Empowerment and Self-Care: In Context of Menstrual and Contraceptive Choices in India

Part 3: Violent Institutions, Feminist Conversations
9. Contextualizing Multiculturalism and Women's Citizenship Rights in India
10. Birangona to Muktijoddha: The Juxtaposed Burden of Victimhood, Valorisation, and Agency
11. Violence, Home, and Care Networks: Contemporary Feminist Explorations
12. The Invisible Violence of Words, Gesture, and Silence: A Feminist Exploration of Linguistic Abuse
13. Escape from Marriages: Feminisms and Anti-Feminisms in India
14. Doing Feminism: Mahatma Jotirao Phule, Supportive Practices and Higher Educational Institutions

Part 4: Spaces of Assertion, Politics of Belonging
15. Mobilising Higher Education and Hope: Gender, Stigma, and Intergenerational Mobility
16. Enabling and Constraining Conditions Impacting Academic Agency to Promote Sustainable Transformation in South African and Indian Universities
17. Under Conditions of Intersecting Injustices: Recognising Multifaceted Politics of Representation and Authorship in Post-Colonial Academia
18. Black Decolonial Feminism Is For Everyone: Feeling Our Way towards Intersectional Antiracism on the Way to Decolonisation in Universities

Index