Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)Longing (Hardcover, 2015)

Part I: (BE)LONGING IN TIME .- Chapter 1: Curiosity Killed the... Woman: Modern Rewritings of "Bluebeard" in Literary Representations of Marital Abuse.- Chapter 2: New Feminine Myths as Builders of New Transcultural Horizons.- Chapter 3: Not by Faith Alone: Religion, Gender and the Public Domain in India.- Chapter 4: Subverting Brahminical Patriarchy through Myths and Folktales: Karnad's Hidden Polemic.- Chapter 5: Religion and the Position of Women in Indian Society: De-masculinizing Mythologies and Religio-Sexual Rites.- Part II: (BE)LONGING IN SPACE .- Chapter 6: Through Other Eyes: Nineteenth-Century Irish Women in South America.- Chapter 7: "God knows five daughters is enough for anyone": Gender Issues in India and Japan.- Chapter 8: Rewriting Genre/Gender: Crime Fiction by Women from India and Latin America.- Chapter 9: Gender Revolution in Socialist Cuba: Up to a Certain Point.- Chapter 10: Bodies of Pleasure: Rethinking Gender, Space and Identity.- Part III: PERFORMING (BE)LONGING .- Chapter 11: 'Devadasi' Reform in Colonial South India: The Case of Radhika Santwanam.- Chapter 12: Gender and Performance: The Case of Re-invention of Mohiniyattam in Early Twentieth Century Kerala.- Chapter 13: Wayward Women, Wicked Singing.- Chapter 14: Gendered Bhavas: Perpetuating Notions of 'Ideal' Male and Female Behaviour through Specific Emotions Highlighted in Acting in Mayabazar.- Chapter 15: The Relevance of Gender in the Narco Corrido/Narco Novel.- Part IV: MODERNITY, TECHNOLOGY AND (BE)LONGING .- Chapter 16: Tagore's Women Heralding the 'New Indian Woman': A Critique of the Women's Question in the Nationalist Discourse.- Chapter 17: Manasi to Neera: the Evolution of the Concept of 'Muse' in Modern Bengali Poetry.- Chapter 18: "Gulabi Talkies": Technology, Empowerment and Changing Spaces Women Occupy.- Chapter 19: 'Because You're Worth It': The New Woman in Post Liberalisation Women's Magazines in India.- Chapter 20: "Googling Baby".