This is an updated and revised version of the extraordinarily successful survey first published to track the interconnections between sexuality and the arts throughout history. Art & Queer Culture explores the societal constraints on sexuality in the context of representations of queerness and sexuality in art.

This article explores film's unique power in the larger context of queer and feminist ethnographic methodologies.

Behera’s research examines the dual axes of gender and conflict, and gender and migration. This series of essays is compiled to bring together oral histories, ethnographic studies, textual-based research, and more on the unique experiences of women in conflict-driven migration journeys.

A rich compilation consisting of artist interviews, essays, and visual art pieces, Queering Contemporary Asian American Art invites readers to challenge preconceived assumptions of Asian American art. The contributors embrace queer theory to help create an interdisciplinary, comprehensive survey of Asian American experience, identity, diasporic communities, and how this all contributes to producing Asian American art.

Dube explores many common themes in the female experience: limitations in education, marriage and relationships, family organization and hierarchy, sexuality, seclusion and exclusion. In the context of South Asian communities, Dube analyzes the similarities and differences in gender construction and identity across these selected cultures.

The Phulkari shawl tradition was nearly a lost practice, but thanks to a recent resurgence in recognizing its artistic integrity, there has been more extensive scholarship around the subject. Maskiell explores the Phulkari shawl tradition through the lens of its historical and cultural importance, as well as its significance in shaping gender roles and identity. Especially with the recent influx in Phulkari work, it is important to understand the ways in which it has historically bound women to gendered tasks.

This is a wide-reaching, yet rich survey of the more technical aspects of the Phulkari shawl tradition. McKnight catalogues the historical evolution of the Phulkari embroidery processes and documents the works of current artists using the techniques.

This book explores the ways in which 21st century diasporic communities create new homes while continuing to adhere to cultural heritage and tradition. Focusing on communities with roots in India and Pakistan, the book draws from artists, writers, filmmakers, and other who identify as first or second-generation South Asian Americans. This interdisciplinary framework combines ethnographic studies with literature, essays, and first-hand accounts of what it means to "belong" in diasporic communities.

A specified study of South Asian-Canadian immigrants, this work examines the generational trauma of conflict-driven migration. It features interviews from women ages 16-34 from South Asian communities in Canada. There is an in-depth discussion on the shifts of gender norms and gender roles in diasporic communities and households.

In Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora, the author dives into a variety of aspects of South Asian immigrant identity. Each section, from “making a modern diaspora” to relating to the old homeland,” discusses the challenging reality for diasporic communities recreating stability in the realm of the unknown. It also examines the dual process of remembering and honoring one’s homeland and traditions in the midst of accepting one’s new “homeland.”

Only in the past few decades have historians begun to seek and develop a genuine narrative of the 1947 Partition of India. Historical research has been done from a nationalistic, official standpoint of the Pakistani, Indian, and British governments, leaving a chasm between the experiences of ordinary people and what was being written about the events they had witnessed. In this piece, the author recontextualizes the Partition with a focus on the cultural and societal shifts that occurred as a result.

Virdee worked on the ground in South Asian communities to document the experiences of women in Partition in its aftermath. This article demonstrates how integral oral history and oral storytelling is in empowering women. Virdee tackles the gendered dimension of Partition studies through the inclusion of previously marginalized, silenced voices of the Partition.

A brilliant example of how film can give an in-depth, comprehensive account of historical events. These scholars used popular film from both India and Pakistan to examine the cultural setting of Partition and its societal, economic, and artistic aftermath.

Art in Motion provides thoughtful analysis of animation produced throughout the world. The first half of the book provides an overview of the relationship between animation studies and media studies, and focuses on specific aesthetic issues concerning flat and dimensional animation, limited and full animation, new technologies, and other key areas. The second half contains a series of studies on particular topics, including abstract animation, audiences, race and ethnicity, gender issues, postmodernism, and adaptation. Art in Motion is an indispensable resource for researchers, students of animation, and anyone with an interest in animation. It is an essential textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of animation, media studies, film/TV studies, and art education.

Anthropological cinema continues to be dominated by straight, white male filmmakers. Recognizing a lack of representation of immigrant and diasporic queers of color, Gill highlights the work of four key filmmakers who are working to dismantle the existing power relations in ethnography, anthropology, and filmmaking. Their work reexamines historical colonial structures within these aforementioned fields through giving voices to those who have been subjected to queers of color erasure.

For many years the only history of the Indian subcontinent’s artistic traditions, Indian Art is an accessible, comprehensive survey of visual art in Indian communities from prehistory to present. Vidya employs a contextual approach in her work to make sense of the interconnections between art and religion and culture throughout India’s history. Filled with carefully selected visual aids and images of the art discussed, this serves as an enriching introduction to the artistic heritage of the Indian subcontinent.

Dadi has provided an essential guide to understanding contemporary Muslim art in South Asia within a new context. For too long, art history neglected to deeply examine non-Western art in its own rights. With the rise of postcolonial scholarship, there has been an emergence of research and appreciation for other areas of the world, such as South Asia. This book contributes to this emergence of artistic subjectivity in relation to nationalism, modernism, tradition.

Stadtner provides a brief overview of the history of South Asian art and its representation up until the emergence of postcolonialism. This article critiques traditional, Western-focused art history on the ways in which it has excluded South Asian art, citing primarily the unwillingness of Western art history to recontextualize its notions of "art" and "worthy subjects" to allow South Asian art to be celebrated in its own right.