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Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of essays, this book corrects this lacuna. Moving beyond the traditional feminist focus on slavery and trafficking, HIV/AIDS, and other health issues, i...

Using old photographs, old and new documents, excerpts from letters, books and informal writings, the author documents the growing involvement of women and the formation of the early Indian women's organizations; she examines the foregrounding of ...

The Magic Key is a series of folktales retold by India's third president DrZakir Husain. ???For all children,??? he wrote, ???the first books they read arethe key to the magic of the world.??? Translated into English by the author's great-granddau...

For over 40 years, Professor Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, carried out pioneering research, individually and in partnership with her colleagues. The range of subjects she covered includes gender and dev...

This remarkable study focuses on the relationship between forms of prostitution, discourses on law making, and law enforcement practices. Across the 19th and early 20th centuries, the colonial government in Bombay city formulated laws on prostitut...

The essays in this book are an outcome of discussions thattook place in the fourth World Social Forum, held in Mumbai in January 2004. They offer the reader different and complex waysof understandings the processes that have helped to shape the Wo...

PRAISE FOR: “…leaves you unsettled. Akkai means to disturb and disrupt us.” — Vrinda Grover, lawyer and women’s rights activist “Akkai Padmashali’s forceful and eloquent new book, A Small Step in a Long Journey, tells of the awe-inspiring life of...

The Magic Key is a series of folktales retold by India's third president Dr Zakir Husain. "For all children," he wrote, "the first books they read are the key to the magic of the world." Translated into English by the author's great-granddaughter,...

Jealous of the ‘success’ of his hardworking farmhands, the rich farmer cuts off access to their land; a free gift won by a working-class family is appropriated by their rich employer who feels his status entitles him to such benefits, a teacher fi...

Seventy-year-old Temsula Ao is a pioneer of northeastern Indian literature, who was recognized with India’s highest civilian honor in 2007 for her work. The author of many volumes of poetry and short stories, Ao returns in this book to her belo

In every class, there’s a kid who’s a little bit different, a little bit on the ‘slow’ side. When she first sees Sushmita, with her sweet round face and innocent eyes, the principal of Rugged Rocks High is worried. “Putting that lovely child among...

About the Book: Along the Red River: A Memoir This unique autobiography by veteran BBC and Associated Pressjournalist Sabita Goswami documents the extraordinary,single-handed fight of an ordinary woman in the heart of Assam,against family and soci...

The last decade saw the emergence andassertion of separate Dalitbahajun women's organizations both at the nationaland regional levels. This assertion against their exclusion from political andcultural spheres sought to transform Dalit and feminist...

About the Book Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force--becoming important ...

About the Book In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the m...

Water Management is not an engineering matter alone; it involves ecological, socio-political, administrative and legal concerns. Gender is a key factor but has been neglected both conventionally and in recent water reform policies and structures. ...

Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs ...

Takes you through women's lives in feudal Bundelkhand, on dusty roads, through caste prejudice, water shortages, police stations, polling booths, and the world of small time journalism.

About the Book In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" t...

About the Book Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to ex...

Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized in nationalist discourse than their Hindu counterparts. She considers how their near-invisibility, except as victims, underpins the construction of the ideal ci...

Description: In unruly visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation of affect, archive, region and aesthetics through an examination of a wide range of contemporary qu...

1943: As the British Empire draws to a close, the state of Bengal is just emerging from the grip of famine. Exploited mercilessly by feudal landlords, landless peasants rise in protest and launch a movement to retain two-thirds of the grain they h...

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don’t usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. E...

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) at Cairo brought about a "paradigm shift" in the way population is conceptualized. This involves going beyond maternal health and family planning, to the broader framework of reprod...

The revelatory collection of essays by journalists explores a range of issues - from the quinacrine sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is the assisted reproduction industry, to the declining age of marriage among Muslim girls in Malabar. W...

About the Book In The Song Seekers , the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to li...

About the Book At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In The Search for Justice , a collect...

Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar spent almost her entire life fighting against the devadasi system in Tamil Nadu, a practice that dedicated young girls to temples, where they were meant to be available for the sexual needs of priests and landowners. ...