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People who live in South Asian cities re-shape politics and actualize constitutional rights, in parks, on playgrounds, and in city streets.
Each chapter in this book discusses feminist, Transgender, and queer movements in urban India and Pakistan. The author has interviewed those who are part of a generation of unabashedly courageous, intersectional feminists who are living and working in South Asia and share their first-hand stories. These activists stage protests and artistic interventions in a time period of legal reforms regarding queer rights, public debates regarding sex, the rise of urbanization, and growing forms of Internet literacy and accessibility. Concrete Women is a rumination on the distances between life and death, between unremitting violence and the possibility of justice.
Drawing on interviews and lived experience, this book examines how feminist, transgender, and queer activists in urban India and Pakistan reclaim public space, challenge violence, and pursue justice amid rapid social and legal change.
Each chapter in this book discusses feminist, Transgender, and queer movements in urban India and Pakistan. The author has interviewed those who are part of a generation of unabashedly courageous, intersectional feminists who are living and working in South Asia and share their first-hand stories. These activists stage protests and artistic interventions in a time period of legal reforms regarding queer rights, public debates regarding sex, the rise of urbanization, and growing forms of Internet literacy and accessibility. Concrete Women is a rumination on the distances between life and death, between unremitting violence and the possibility of justice.
Drawing on interviews and lived experience, this book examines how feminist, transgender, and queer activists in urban India and Pakistan reclaim public space, challenge violence, and pursue justice amid rapid social and legal change.