目次

1. Introduction; Nazia Hussein; Part 1: ‘New Woman’: the real and the imagined.- 1. ‘New Woman’ as a Flashpoint within the Nation: The Border as Method in Tales of Modernity; Nandita Ghosh.- 2. Understanding the 'New Woman' in the Intersectional Grid of Caste, Class, Gender and Religion through the Works of Women Writers in India; Sanchayita Paul Chakrobarty.- 3. The New Heroine: Gender Representations in Contemporary Pakistani Dramas; Virginie Dutoya.- 4. Mis(s)guided by Popular Feminisms: TV commercials in India and the ‘New Woman’; Deepali Yadav.- Part2: New Woman’: the consumer, student and worker.- 5. Re-imagining the Traditional Buying Roles: Exploring the 'New Women' in Delhi.- 6. Enacting ‘New girlhoods’: Muslim girls’ education in Assam; Saba Hussain.- 7. Bangladeshi New Women’s Smart Dressing: Conforming, Negotiating and Resisting Organizational and Middle Class Respectable Aesthetic Standards; Nazia Hussein.