1 Introduction
Bishnupriya Dutt , Janelle Reinelt and Shrinkhla Sahai
Part I Citizenship, Law, and Rights: How is Citizenship Gendered?
2 The Dilemmas of Performative Citizenship
Shirin M. Rai
3 Making Citizenship Familiar: ‘Truth’ Tales and the Partition Archive(s)
Anupama Roy
4 When State Policy Refracts the Mother
Amrita Nandy and Sneha Banerjee
5 Spaces of Appearance, Politics of Exposure: Queer Publics, Sexual Justice and Activism in Eastern Europe and India
Ameet Parameswaran and Milija Gluhovic
6 Mapping the Nation: Performance Art in India and Narratives of Nationalism and Citizenship
Shrinkhla Sahai
7 Traversing Sites, Traversing History: Practising
Citizenship Through Art
Anuradha Kapur
Part II Media, Market, Commodifi cation: Challenging the Vulnerability of Women
8 Unmasking the Face of Gendered Citizenship: Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Acid and Free Outgoing
Elaine Aston
9 The Legal Unspeakable: Rape in 1980s Bombay Cinema
Ranjani Mazumdar
10 Murderous Maids: Reading Contemporary Migrant Domestic Labour Through Genet’s Maids
Silvija Jestrovic
11 India’s Daughter in India: Old Questions,
New Answers?
Nivedita Menon
12 The Glasgow Girls: Many Faces of Child Asylum Seekers
Susan Haedicke
Part III Violence Against Women: ‘Rescue’, Resistance and ‘Empowerment’
13 Is a Trafficked Woman a Citizen? Survival and Citizenship in Performance
Janelle Reinelt
14 ‘Processing’ Vulnerability, Trauma and Recovery for Women Victims: Rehabilitation Through Tools from Performance
Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
15 Becoming Citizens: Loss and Desire in the Social Reintegration of Guerrilla Ex-Combatants in Colombia
María Estrada-Fuentes
16 Laws and Marginalised Bodies: Sex Trafficking, Child Labour and Circus as a Site of Negotiations
Aastha Gandhi and Bishnupriya Dutt
17 Sexuate Agency and Relationality in Witnessing Kashmir Violence
Inshah Malik and Manola K. Gayatri
Epilogue: The Artist As Citizen: Resisting Official History
Index