Gendered citizenship: manifestations and performance

Table of Contents

1 Introduction
Part I Citizenship, Law, and Rights: How is Citizenship Gendered?
2 The Dilemmas of Performative Citizenship
3 Making Citizenship Familiar: ‘Truth’ Tales and the Partition Archive(s)
4 When State Policy Refracts the Mother
5 Spaces of Appearance, Politics of Exposure: Queer Publics, Sexual Justice and Activism in Eastern Europe and India
6 Mapping the Nation: Performance Art in India and Narratives of Nationalism and Citizenship
7 Traversing Sites, Traversing History: Practising
Citizenship Through Art
Part II Media, Market, Commodifi cation: Challenging the Vulnerability of Women
8 Unmasking the Face of Gendered Citizenship: Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Acid and Free Outgoing
Elaine Aston
9 The Legal Unspeakable: Rape in 1980s Bombay Cinema
10 Murderous Maids: Reading Contemporary Migrant Domestic Labour Through Genet’s Maids
11 India’s Daughter in India: Old Questions,
New Answers?
12 The Glasgow Girls: Many Faces of Child Asylum Seekers
Part III Violence Against Women: ‘Rescue’, Resistance and ‘Empowerment’
13 Is a Trafficked Woman a Citizen? Survival and Citizenship in Performance
14 ‘Processing’ Vulnerability, Trauma and Recovery for Women Victims: Rehabilitation Through Tools from Performance
15 Becoming Citizens: Loss and Desire in the Social Reintegration of Guerrilla Ex-Combatants in Colombia
María Estrada-Fuentes
16 Laws and Marginalised Bodies: Sex Trafficking, Child Labour and Circus as a Site of Negotiations
17 Sexuate Agency and Relationality in Witnessing Kashmir Violence

This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and performed across national and regional boundaries. Using ‘citizenship’ as its organizing concept, it brings together a collection of multidisciplinary approaches to the legal, socio-cultural and performative aspects of gender construction and identity: violence against women, victimhood and agency, and everyday issues of socialization in a globalized world.The volume examines citizenship as embodied and enacted, and explores various perspectives on gender in relation to citizenship. The essays featured here analyse citizenship struggles and challenges of recent significant global issues and cover a wide range of social, civic and political spaces. Gendered Citizenship brings together scholars of politics, media, and performance who are committed to dialogue across both nation and discipline. This book is the culmination of a two-year project on 'Gendered Citizenship', and is a compilation of research that is interdisciplinary and multinational, drawing on Indian, European, and North and South American contexts.This compilation of essays focusing on scholarship, creative practice, and activism would be a useful resource for students, scholars, academicians, activists and artists.

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