People who live in South Asian cities re-shape politics and actualize constitutional rights, inparks, on playgrounds, and in city streets. Each chapter in this book discusses feminist,Transgender, and queer movements in urban India and Pakistan. The author has interviewedthose who are part of a generation of unabashedly courageous, intersectional feminists whoare living and working in South Asia and share their first-hand stories. These activists stageprotests and artistic interventions in a time-period of legal reforms regarding queer rights,public debates regarding sex, the rise of urbanization, and growing forms of Internet literacyand accessibility. Concrete Women is a rumination on the distances between life and death,between unremitting violence and the possibility of justice.Firsthand accounts of feminist, Transgender, and queer movements in urban India andPakistan.
Concrete Women