CONTENTS: List of Abbreviations vii Teaching/Writing Resistance: An Introduction 1 PART 1 | Disciplining Gender/Gendering Disciplines: Reflections on Possibilities 1. Unfolding the Story of Women’s Studies in India: Understanding and Learning from Difference 19 Devaki Jain 2. Women’s Studies and the Caste Question: Revisiting Social Reform and the Making of Indian Culture 33 Mary E. John PART 2 | Women’s Studies and its Institutionalisation 3. Teaching Resistance and Critique: Some Reflections on Women’s Studies in an Interdisciplinary Institution 53 U. Vindhya 4. Interdisciplinarity and Women’s Studies Degrees: Some Questions 70 Arpita Anand 5. In Defence of Indiscipline: Disciplining and Decentring Women’s Studies in Non-metropolitan Tamil Nadu 95 Nithila Kanagasabai PART 3 | Ruptures or Repetitions? 6. Westerning Feminist Futures: Women’s and Gender Studies in the Age of Terror 117 Sunera Thobani 7. Women’s Studies is Dead! Long Live Women’s Studies! 145 Panchali Ray 8. The Future of Women’s Studies, or Women’s Studies ‘to Come’ 164 Rajlaxmi Ghosh Note on the Contributors 178 Index 180.