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Introduction : feminism, religion and the secular / Ania Loomba and Ritty Lukose

From Shahbano to Kausar bano : contextualizing the "Muslim woman" within a communalised polity / Flavia Agnes

Global discourses, situated traditions, and Muslim women's agency in Pakistan / Amina Jamal

Martial tales, right-wing Hindu women and "history-telling" in the Bombay slums / Atreyee Sen

Of moments, not monuments : feminism and labor activism in post-national Sri Lanka / Sonali Perera

Feminism, migration and labor : movement building in a globalized world / Anannya Bhattacharjee

Uncomfortable alliances : women, peace and security in Sri Lanka / Vasuki Nesiah

Feminist politics and maternalist agonism / Malathi De Alwis

Witnessing as feminist intervention in India-administered Kashmir / Angana Chatterji

Transnational politics of reading and the (un)making Taslima Nasreen / Lamia Karim

Rewriting the rape script in Dalit women's literature / Laura Brueck

Subject to sex : a small history of the Gomantak Maratha Samaj / Anjali Arondekar

Sex workers' movements and rights discourse / Firdous Azim

"Civilizing" political society or "politicizing" civil society? : examining sex worker mobilization in Sonagachi, Calcutta / Toorjo Ghose

Queering approaches to sex, gender and labor in India : examining paths to sex worker unionism / Ashwini Sukthankar

Hecklers to power : the waning of human rights and challenges to feminist activism in South Asia / Ratna Kapur

A global perspective on gender : what's South Asia got to do with it? / Mrinalini Sinha.