Concrete Women
Gender, Urbanism, and Protest in South Asia
Description
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.