South Asian Feminisms: Contemporary Interventions / Ania Loomba and Ritty A. Lukose 1

I. Feminism, Religion, and the Secular

From Shah Bano to Kausar Bano: Contextualizing the "Muslim Woman" within a Communalized Polity / Flavia Agnes 33

Global Discourses, Situated Traditions, and Muslim Women's Agency in Pakistan / Amina Jamal 54

Martial Tales, Right-Wing Hindu Women, and "History Telling" in the Bombay Slums / Atreyee Sen 75

II. Feminism, Labor, and Globalization

Of Moments, Not Monuments: Feminism and Labor Activism in Postnational Sri Lanka / Sonali Perera 97

Feminism, Migration, and Labor: Movement Building in a Globalized World / Anannya Bhattacharjee 117

III. Feminism, War, Peace

Uncomfortable Alliances: Women, Peace, and Security in Sri Lanka / Vasuki Nesiah 139

Feminist Politics and Maternalist Agonism / Malathi de Alwis 162

Witnessing as Feminist Intervention in India-Administered Kashmir / Angana P. Chatterji 181

IV. Feminism, Figuration, and the Politics of Reading and Writing

Transnational Politics of Reading and the (Un)making of Taslima Nasreen / Lamia Karim 205

At the Intersection of Gender and Caste: Rescripting Rape in Dalit Feminist Narratives / Laura Brueck 224

Subject to Sex: A Small History of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj / Anjali Arondekar 244

V. Feminism, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality

Keeping Sexuality on the Agenda: The Sex Workers' Movement in Bangladesh / Firdous Azim 267

Politicizing Political Society: Mobilization among Sex Workers in Sonagachi, India / Toorjo Ghose 285

Queering Approaches to Sex, Gender, and Labor in India: Examining Paths to Sex Worker Unionism / Ashwini Sukthankar 306

VI. Feminist Crisis and Futures

Hecklers to Power? The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in India / Ratna Kapur 333

A Global Perspective on Gender: What's South Asia Got to Do with It? / Mrinalini Sinha 356

Bibliography 375

Contributors 407

Index 411