Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 ‘(New) Woman’ as a Flashpoint Within the Nation: The Border as Method in Tales of Modernity

Chapter 4 The New Heroine ? Gender Representations in Contemporary Pakistani Dramas

Chapter 5 Bangladeshi New Women’s ‘Smart’ Dressing: Negotiating Class, Culture, and Religion

Chapter 6 Nepalese (New) Women Workers in the Hotel Industry: Exploring Women’s Work and Respectability

Chapter 7 Merging Career and Marital Aspirations: Emerging Discourse of ‘New Girlhood’ Among Muslims in Assam

Chapter 8 Earning as Empowerment?: The Relationship Between Paid Work and Domestic Violence in Lyari, Karachi

Chapter 9 Heterosexual Profession, Lesbian Practices: How Sex Workers’ Sexuality Right Positions Through Intersection of Sexuality, Gender, and Class Within the Hierarchy of LGBT Activism in Bangladesh

Chapter 10 ‘New’ Feminisms in India: Encountering the ‘West’ and the Rest