This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.
This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women's and gender studies in India. The essays describe today's and future challenges as well as offer clues for women's and gender studies in the country through a survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory: gender, caste and class: feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies: disability and feminism: feminist and queer pedagogies: and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, aesthetics, cinema, new media studies and folklore).