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<font face="Arial, Helvetica">Hello everyone. About two weeks
ago, I sent a query to this listserver asking if anyone had good
citations on gender and communication in South Asia. What follows
here is a list of responses. Thanks to everyone who gave me a hand
with this! <br><br>
Rachel Reynolds<br>
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Gender, Communication and Language in South Asia<br>
(generated from a query on linganth listserver, May 2003)<br>
Repondents included: Jim Wilce, Ellen Contini-Moravia, <br>
Maggie Ronkin, John McCreery<br>
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<dd>Ahearn, Laura M.
<dd>2001 Invitations to Love: Literacy, Love Letters, and
Social Change in Nepal. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
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<dd>Appadurai, Arjun, Frank J. Koram and Margaret Mills.
<dd>1991 Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian
Expressive Traditions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press.<br><br>
<dd>Grima, Benedicte
<dd>1992 The Performance of Emotion Among Paxtun Women:
“The Misfortunes Which Have Befallen Me”. Austin, TX: University of Texas
Press.
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is an accessible ethnography of communication and a fascinating
ethnographic account of culturally constructed and socially performed
emotions.]<br><br>
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<dd>Hall, Kira
<dd>1997"Go Suck Your Husband's Sugarcane..." <i>In</i> Queerly
Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. K. Hall and A. Livia, eds. Pp.
430-460. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Documents how
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">any acceptance or position
hijrasIndian transgendered personshave is won by their own assertions,
not granted by any sort of cultural value such as inclusivism.]<br><br>
<dd>Hall, Kira and O’Donovan, Veronica
<dd>1996<x-tab> </x-tab>"Shifting gender
positions among Hindi-speaking hijras". In V. Bergvall, J. Bing, and
A. Freed (eds.), Rethinking Language and Gender Research: Theory and
Practice. Longman<br><br>
<dd>Petievich, Carla. 2001.
<dd>2001.<x-tab> </x-tab>"Rekhti: Impersonating the
Feminine in Urdu Poetry". South Asia, vol. 24. [On one of a number
of Indo-Muslim poetries composed by men and narrated in the feminine
voice.] <br><br>
<dd>Raheja, Gloria Goodwin and Gold, Ann Grodzins
<dd>1994<x-tab> </x-tab>Listen to the Heron's
Words: Reimagining Gender and kinship in North India. U of California
Press<br><br>
<dd>Riessman, Catherine.
<dd>2000 Stigma and everyday resistance practices:
Childless women in South India. Gender and Society 14 (1):
111-135.<br><br>
<dd>Riessman, Catherine
<dd>2001 Positioning gender identity in narratives of
infertility: South Indian women’s lives in context. In M. C. Inhorn and
F. van Balen, eds. Infertility Around the Globe: New Thinking on
Childlessness,Gender, and Reproductive Technologies. Berkeley: University
of California Press. <br><br>
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<dd>2002. Spousal communication on reproductive illness among
rural women Culture, Health & Sexuality 4, no. 2 (2002):
223-236.<br><br>
<dd>Wilce, James M.
<dd>1998 Eloquence in Trouble: The Poetics and Politics
of Complaint in Rural Bangladesh Oxford Studies in Anthropological
Linguistics, No 21. [Shows how “complaints” in medical and other domains
become opportunities for resistance to gender hierarchies]<br><br>
</dl>Wilce, James M.
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press<x-tab> </x-tab>To
"speak beautifully" in Bangladesh: Subjectivity as
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<i>In</i> The Edge of Experience: Culture, Subjectivity, and
Schizophrenia. J. Jenkins and R. Barrett, eds. New York: Cambridge
University Press. [Uncovers gender bending as one of several keys to the
significance of “madness” in Bangladesh]<br><br>
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