TY - JOUR
T1 - Reorganisation of desire : cultural lives of young women in globalising India
AU - NIRANJANA, Tejaswini
AU - VASUDEVAN, Nitya
N1 - Support for the research done at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in 2012–14 was provided by the Indian Council for Social Science Research.
PY - 2016/4/2
Y1 - 2016/4/2
N2 - Discussions about violence and safety dominate public discourse about women in 21st century India. In urban spaces, this discourse appears to have specific characteristics—such as the focus on young women’s occupation of globalised workplaces, their clothing, and their movements in the city. Drawing on recent research conducted in Bengaluru, this paper argues that the links between women and social transformation are being obscured by the intensified concern with safety, and suggests that redescribing women’s experience may throw up a new set of issues with which feminist scholarship might productively engage.
AB - Discussions about violence and safety dominate public discourse about women in 21st century India. In urban spaces, this discourse appears to have specific characteristics—such as the focus on young women’s occupation of globalised workplaces, their clothing, and their movements in the city. Drawing on recent research conducted in Bengaluru, this paper argues that the links between women and social transformation are being obscured by the intensified concern with safety, and suggests that redescribing women’s experience may throw up a new set of issues with which feminist scholarship might productively engage.
UR - http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/14/special-articles/reorganisation-desire.html
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/6063
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
VL - 51
SP - 70
EP - 78
JO - Economic and Political Weekly
JF - Economic and Political Weekly
SN - 0012-9976
IS - 14
ER -
