Affective Feminisms in Digital India: Intimate Rebels

This book explores digital feminist activism in contemporary India, analyzing how anti-rape narratives, Feminichy scandals, #MeToo movements, and menstrual activisms create 'affective digital feminisms' that break with and continue residual and emergent practices within feminisms. It focuses on vernacular forms of dissent to decolonize feminist imaginaries from their moorings in the West and explores new digital, cultural, and social geographies where politically untamed women use their precarity to unsettle deep sexist structures and mount a gendered critique of the political economy of the nation-state.

Format: Hardback
Length: 238 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the realm of digital feminist activism in contemporary India, offering a thorough and in-depth examination of the postmillennial digital era in the country. It explores how various forms of performative feminist dissent, including anti-rape narratives, Feminichy scandals, #MeToo movements, and menstrual activisms, have emerged in the digital landscape, shaping new modes of women's digital dissent. Through a comprehensive analysis of these narratives and their discursive medialities, the volume investigates how they create "affective digital feminisms" that both challenge and perpetuate residual and emergent practices within feminism in India.

The author also takes a closer look at digital women's speech from India, focusing on vernacular forms of dissent that aim to decolonize feminist imaginations from their Western influences. By examining these forms of dissent, the author seeks to unravel the complex geographies of power and resistance that shape women's lives in India.

The book makes a significant contribution to the study of feminism in India, offering valuable insights to students and researchers in the fields of gender and women's studies, cultural studies, digital sociology, intersectional feminism, transnational feminism, digital humanities, and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to readers with an interest in the history of women's dissent in India.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032322834