Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India

Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India
by: Swathi Krishna S. (Author),Srirupa Chatterjee(Author)
Publisher:Lexington Books
Publication Date: 15 Aug. 2023
Language:English
Print Length:270 pages
ISBN-10:1666902322
ISBN-13:9781666902327
Book Description
This book examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through the analysis of artistic representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films and graphic narratives to narratives of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, the book resists gendered violence and champions women’s right to mobility.
About the Author
Review 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.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.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. About the Author Swathi Krishna S. is assistant professor of English in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management at IIT Bhubaneswar, India.Srirupa Chatterjee is associate professor of English in the Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Hyderabad, India.