Gender Perspectives in Indian Context

Today gender studies as an interdisciplinary academic field has gained much momentum in India. Contrary to conventional idea that a person born either as a boy or a girl must conform to his or her sex in his or her growth dress and behaviour modern Indian outlooks have rather started changing with the fast approaching new gender free world crowded with agender bigender genderfluid genderqueer nonbinary and third gender people against conventional gender binary male and female. Last few years apart from schemes for women’s security and empowerment have also seen the announcement of many welfare schemes for the health and wellbeing of third gender people of India and decriminalisation of homosexuality from Indian soil. With same spirit the present anthology is an endeavour to shed some light on the glaring issues of rape abuse discrimination exploitation and violence arising out of gender essentialism in Indian context. The anthology with an aim to serving larger sections of humanity covers twenty seven multidisciplinary articles hardly missing any aspect untouched from this field of study in Indian context.