A Time For Tea: Women, labor and post-colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation
Piya Chatterjee
In this creative, ethnographic and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, P...
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Are Other Worlds Possible?: Talking New Politics
Jai Sen & Mayuri Saini (Eds.)
In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum held in Mumbai, India in January 2004, civil activist...
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Atlas of Women and Men in India
Saraswati Raju, Peter J. Atkins, Naresh Kumar and Janet G. Townsend
This compilation of almost 100 maps is put together using date from the 1991 Census of India. The A...
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Birth on the Threshold: Childbirth and Modernity in South India
Cecilia Van Hollen
Winner of the 2005 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize
Even childbirth is affected by globaliz...
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Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay
Ashwini Tambe
This remarkable study focuses on the relationship between forms of prostitution, discourses on law m...
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Creating Voice and Carving Space: Redefining Governance from a Gender Perspective
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay & Shamim Meer
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Deconstructing Mental Illness: An Ethnography of Psychiatry, Women, and the Family
Renu Addlakha
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Democratization & Women's Grassroots Movements
Jill M Bystydzienski and Joti Sekhon (Eds.)
Jill M Bystdzienki is Director of Women's Studies and Professor of Sociology at Iowa State Universit...
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Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory Practicing Solidarity
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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Feminism, Nationalism and Exiled Tibetan Women
Alex Butler
Alex Butler is an Australian social scientist who has been involved in the Tibet support movement fo...
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Feminist Futures: Re-imagining Women, Culture and Development
Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran & Priya Kurian (Eds.)
Globalization and the failure of development have led to the feminization of poverty, environmental ...
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Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Post-colonialism and Representation
Kriemild Saunders (Ed.)
Feminist Post-Development Thought addresses the crucial question of what development means for women...
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Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India
Raka Ray
Raka Ray is an Assistant Professor in the department of Sociology at the University of California, B...
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From Gender to Nation
Rada Ivekovic and Julie Mostov (Eds.)
This volume considers the significance of nation and gender in the context of post-1989 transition...
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Gender and the Built Environment in India
Madhavi Desai (editor)
At various levels, from the city to the institutions and from the neighbourhood to the dwelling, the...
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Gender Politics of Development, The
Shirin M. Rai
In this important study, Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has e...
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Gender, Citizenship and Development
Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay and Navsharan Singh
Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality...
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Gender-Violent Conflict-Development
Dubravka Zarkov (Ed.)
The last few decades have witnessed growing theoretical and practical concerns with intersections be...
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Genderscapes: Revisioning Natural Resource Management
Sumi Krishna
Why does gender bias persist in natural resource management policies and programmes, despite increas...
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Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions
Naila Kabeer (Ed.)
Inclusive Citizenship seeks to go beyond the intellectual debates of recent years on democratization...
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Indian Women in the House of Fiction
Geetanjali Singh Chanda
Like homeless wanderers, Indo-English women writers are constantly yearning for a home—be it a natio...
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Individuals, Householders, Citizens: Family Planning in Kerala
J. Devika
The creation of widespread public consent for family planning in Kerala, which ensured the non-coerc...
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Institutions, Relations and Outcomes
Edited by Naila Kabeer and Ramya Subrahmanian
The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of ef...
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Knowing our Rights: Women, Family, Laws and Customs in the Muslim World
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
Knowing Our Rights is designed as a tool for activists engaged in lobbying and advocacy related to M...
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Land Tenure, Gender and Globalisation: Research and Analysis from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Dzodzi Tsikata and Pamela Golah (eds)
Drawing from field research in Cameroon, Ghana, Viet Nam and the Amazon forests of South America, th...
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Locked Homes, Empty Schools: The Impact of Distress Seasonal Migration on the Rural Poor
Smita, Photographs by Prashant Panjiar. Foreward by Amartya Sen
Every year millions of impoverished families living in the rainfed parts of India leave their homes ...
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Macroeconomics and Gender
Ritu Dewan and Seeta Prabhu (eds)
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Making Babies: Birth Markets and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in India
Sandhya Srinivasan (ed.)
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) are usually publicised as ‘miracle cure for infertility.’ ...
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Marketing Reproduction: Political Rhetoric and Gender Policy in India
Rachel Simon-Kumar
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Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities: A Feminist Nirvana Uncovered
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
In rejecting falsely homogenizing accounts of women’s lives, feminist economists have, in recent yea...
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Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers
Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner and Ann Grodzins Gold (Editors)
Vividly showcasing new ethnographic research on extraordinary South Asian women who have abandoned w...
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Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency & India
Purnima Bose
Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist...
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Peripheral Centre, The: Voices from India's Northeast
Preeti Gill (editor)
When Thangjam Manorama was arrested and killed by the Assam Rifles in July 2004 in Manipur, it unlea...
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Playing with Fire
Sangtin Yatra
Playing with Fire is a chorus where nine voices from varied sociopolitical locations self-reflexivel...
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Poster Women: A Visual History of the Women's Movement in India
Zubaan
Poster Women is an archive of over 1500 posters from the Indian Women’s Movement, collected over an ...
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Recasting Women – Essays in Colonial History
Edited by Kumkum Sangari & Sudesh Vaid
This collection of essays stands at an unarticulated conjuncture within the feminist movement and wo...
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Rewriting History- The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai, (With new Afterword)
Uma Chakravarti
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She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety
Srimati Basu
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Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum
Atreyee Sen
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Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir
Urvashi Butalia (Ed.)
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Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire
Mrinalini Sinha
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States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia
Piya Chatterjee, Manali Desai and Parama Roy (eds)
In the last couple of decades, violence as an analytic category has loomed large in the historical, ...
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The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
Radha Kumar
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The Other Half of the Coconut: Women Writing Self-Respect History
Edited and translated by K Srilata
K Srilata teaches English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of T...
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The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women’s Lives in India
Mohan Rao (Ed.)
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The Violence of Development: The Political Economy of Gender in India
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The Women, Gender & Development Reader
Nalini Visvanathan (Co-ordinator), Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff & Nan Wiegersma (Eds.)
Third World women were long the undervalued and ignored actors in the development process but are no...
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Touch Me, Touch Me Not: Women, Plants and Healing
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Tracking Gender Equity Under Economic Reforms: Continuity and Change in South Asia
Swapna Mukhopadhyay & Ratna Sudarshan (Eds.)
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Translating Women
N. Kamala (ed.)
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Victims, Perpetrators or Actors? Gender, Armed Conflict and Political Violence
Caroline O. N. Moser and Fiona C. Clark (Eds.)
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Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal
Mahua Sarkar
Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized in nationalis...
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Waves in the Hinterland: The Journey of a Newspaper
Farah Naqvi
Khabar Lahariya, an eight-page newspaper published every fortnight since 2002 from Uttar Prad...
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We Also Made History (Aamhihi Itihaas Ghadavlaa)
Meenakshi Moon & Urmila Pawar Translated by Wandana Sonalkar
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this book, a contemporary classic, details for the first ti...
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Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History
Janaki Nair
A concern for the position of women in law has a long history in India.The foundations of a concerte...
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Women, Citizenship and Difference
Nira Yuval-Davis & Pnina Werbner (Eds.)
This book makes an important contribution towards an understanding of citizenship as mediated by oth...
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Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios
Sharmila Rege
The last decade saw the emergence and assertion of separate Dalitbahajun women’s organizations both ...
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Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader
Mala Khullar (Ed.)
This collection provides a synoptic representation of the development of women’s studies in India fr...
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