Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal IndiaSrirupa Chatterjee, Swathi Krishna S. Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India examines the vulnerability of women in public spaces in India through an analysis of narrative representations ranging from emerging digital media, commercial Hindi films, and graphic narratives to accounts of real and lived experiences of women. In doing so, this collection initiates a scholarly discussion on manifold forms of emotional, mental, epistemic, and above all sexual violence female travelers face in male-dominated public spaces. Gendered Violence in Public Spaces therefore challenges contemporary readers to re-frame India’s public spaces against misogyny and gendered violence. |
Contents
HOSTILE TERRAINS EMPOWERING | 17 |
Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati | 33 |
Mirrors of Reality Toxic Masculinity Traveling | 51 |
BOLLYWOODS TRAVELING WOMEN | 71 |
Celluloid Women Rewriting Rules of Travel | 93 |
BOLLYWOODS TRAVELING WOMEN II | 113 |
Traveling Women and Their Male Companions Framing | 131 |
TROUBLES OF THE OUTDOORSY WOMAN | 149 |
Negotiating Violence and Traversing the City Female | 165 |
STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL WORKING | 183 |
Women Journalists Negotiating Space in Indias | 201 |
TRAVELING SOLO TRAVELING STRONG | 221 |
Conclusion | 245 |
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