... marriage but to resolve the tension between the demands of “Indian tradition” on middle-class young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by neoliberal discourses of autonomy. This dichotomy is symbolized in the novels in the tension between mothers and daughters and plays out primarily across...

... patriarchal norms. This resistance is also a reactive stance against Indian influence as embodied by the real and potential coupling of Nepali women and Indian men whose children would further “Indianize” Nepal. This article suggests that restricting Nepali women's right to pass citizenship is a form...

... connections between Indian struggles over the problem and two U.S. feminist texts, Donna Haraway's essay “Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order” and Rayna Rapp's ethnography Testing Women, Testing the Fetus . Many levels of disconnect across our respective “naturecultures” become visible...

... of nation and gender for the constitution of diasporic subjectivities. I have learned that such apparently benign constructs as Indian culture, Indian Womanhood, and the Indian Family can sometimes become sites for violence against women...

....” Yet, to call these women donors would be inaccurate; their explicit task in this global reproductive economy is to sell their ova for a specified sum of money. Indeed, all the egg providers I spoke with, both Indian and some South African...

... As Anannya Bhattacharjee has shown in her work on domestic violence within Indian immigrant communities in the United States, immigrant women are positioned by an immigrant male bourgeoisie as repositories of an essential “Indianness.” Thus...

... production, sperm can be shipped from the United States or wherever the clients reside. If needed, eggs can be sourced from working-­class Indian women, university students in the United States, or women from the Repub- lic of Georgia and even South...

... the villainous acts of Indian men and the victimization of Indian women.” Lazreg’s reading of Spivak’s reading, then, illus- trates Spivak’s construction rather than deconstruction of a gendered binary, thereby losing the opportunity...

... did not take women seriously or that he underestimated the importance of the feminine. Indeed he proceeded from the premise that if the colonizer had deprecated Indian men as inadequately masculine and had sought to “protect” Indian women...

... highlights the mutual imbrication of Ori- entalist and racialized discourses about Indian women’s sexuality. Annie avoided “escalating” the call to her supervisor because she was afraid that the supervisor would blame her for encouraging the customer...

... necessitated this denigration of Indian women in general was an imperialistic desire to demean the colonial subjects via a convoluted route of reasoning: “Officials in favor of abolition argued that such action was in fact consistent with upholding...

... of Indian women’s higher education and professionalization hailed by neoliberal capital hungry for cheaper labor. It is the twenty-­first-­century “new” Indian who both enables the “modern” romance and precipitates the “countermodern” clash between...

... adjacent to the ballroom local fashion retail- ers displayed designer Indian clothes at steep prices. During the pageant proceedings the women’s bathroom became a scene of intense competition: older and younger South Asian women, who ostensibly had...

... opinions on women’s issues, which are quite often discussed in the popular media in India, are not surveyed. This new profile of the Indian consumer suggests a change from the older version of media marketing in which women were seen...

... feudal history in film, as evidenced in the range of contradictory emotions elicited by Hindi cinema’s haveli. Havelis and the Affect of Paramountcy Historically, precolonial havelis created segregated spaces for women of North Indian Hindu...

... how her elderly grandmother, who was from a generation where women still had their feet bound, was not spared and was roughly transported to the camp. Many of the individuals interviewed make it a point to inform viewers that they identify with being Indian despite the experience. Yin Marsh says...

..., network, and travel. See Wayne Persons and Minnie Persons, personal communication, 1997; also cf. Rijnhart, With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple. Also, Beatrice Miller says that when World War II trade brought Tibetan women traders down to India, Indian...

... and five-­star hotels the dancers are train- ing in classical Indian and Western dance traditions, and hence dance is a profession of choice for them; whereas for women dancing in the dance bars, it is not a profession of choice but a necessity...

... commonalities to organize on certain issues that affected us in the United States. In 1991, with four other recent Indian American university graduates, I formed the South Asian Alliance For Action (SAAFA). One of the most...

... that, however, seems to desire to uncouple the traffic between food and deceit and to establish a hierarchy of pure and polluted foods. This one is about the colonial rise of curry powder from Madhur Jaffrey’s first cookbook, An Invitation to Indian...