Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy

Abstract

Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India is a book that explores subject formation through queer feminist governmentality which the author Srila Roy articulates as “an assemblage of discourses, practices, and techniques aimed at empowering subaltern subjects” (2022, p. 5). The book grapples with the state of feminism in India after liberalisation in the 1990s where the country experiences neoliberalism, structural adjustment and a major socio-economic, cultural and political shift. The book unpacks feminism as a site of governance with the capacity not just for power and domination but also for selfmaking, self-transformation, resistance and contestation.