Acknowledgements
Introduction: Gender, Modernity and Kerala
Meena T. Pillai
Confronting Histories
1. Return of the Uncanny Yakshi: Gendering the ‘Spectres’ of Kerala’s Modernities
Meena T. Pillai
2. Imaginations of Pleasure: Against a History of Desire in Kerala
Muraleedharan Tharayil
3. Re-reading Indulekha: Intimate Hierarchies in the Ambiguities of Sanskritised Registers and Domesticated Social Space
Arya K.
4. Stree, Purushan, Napumsakan: Shaping Femininities and Effeminacies in Early-Nineteenth-Century Kerala
Maalavika Ajayakumar
Unsettling Praxes
5. Fashioning the Reading Woman in Colonial Kerala: A Woman Reader’s Memoir in Perspective
Meera C.
6. Liminal Modernities: At the Intersections of Travel Discourses, Gender and Kerala (1880s–1920s)
Sucheta Sankar V.
7. Sewing Malayali Christian Women: Missionary Makings of Sartorial Morality and ‘Modern’ Domesticity in Travancore
Arya A.
8. Cookbooks from Kerala: Creative Adaptations and Inscriptions of Alternative Modernities
Gigy J. Alex
Disquieting Continuities
9. Television Modernity and Mediated Femininities in Kerala
Benita Acca Benjamin
10. Who is Afraid of the Raped Nun?: Discourses, Contestations and Digital Publics
Jobson Joshwa
Contributors
Publisher’s Acknowledgements