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The Business of Sex

Laxmi Murthy, Saraswathi Seshu

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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...

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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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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 ...

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Queer Activism In India: A Story in the Anthroplogy of Ethics

Naisargi Dave

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Little Chicken in a Hurry

Zakir Husain

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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...

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Gender in South Asia and Beyond

Shruti Chaudhry, HUGO Gorringe, Radhika Govinda

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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...

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Codes Of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution In Late Colonial Bombay

Ashwini Tambe

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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...

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Are Other World Possible: Talking New Politics

Sen

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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...

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A Small Step In A Long Journey: A Memoir By Akkai Padmashali

Akkai Padmashali

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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...

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A Flower's Song

Zakir Husain

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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,...

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The Stomach that Chewed Hunger and other stories

Bama

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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...

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Aosenla's Story

Temsula Ao

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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

The Dugong and the Barracudas

Ranjit Lal

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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...

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Along The Red River: A Memoir

Sabita Goswami

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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...

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The Peripheral Centre: Voices from India's North East

Preeti Gill

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The Peripheral Centre: Voices from India's North East

Preeti Gill

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The Maharaja'S Household: A Daughter's Memories of Her Father

M.K. Binodini, L. Somi Roy

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Swarnalata

Tilottoma Misra

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Riddle of the Seventh Stone

Monideepa Sahu

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Nuns, Yoginis, Saints And Singers: Women’S Renunciation In South Asia

Meena Khandelwal, Sondra L. Hausner, Ann Grodzins Gold

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No Outlaws In The Gender Galaxy

Chayanika Shah, Raj Merchant

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New Intimacies, Old Desires – Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times

Oishik Sircar, Dipika Jain

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My Homage To All

Kanan Devi

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Mannequin: Working Women in India's Glamour Industry

Manjima Bhattacharjya

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Karuppu

Praveena Shivram

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In My Mother'S House: Civil War In Sri Lanka

Sharika Thiranagama

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I Have A Question!: An Adolescent's Diverse Menstrual Experiences

Sonal Jain, Natasha Bandodkar

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Genderscapes: Revisioning Natural Resource Management

Sumi Krishna

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Genderscapes: Revisioning Natural Resource Management

Sumi Krishna

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Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Reconceptualising Dignity AfterPuttaswamy Vs. Union Of India

Kalpana Kannabiran, Devi Jagani

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Drawing The Line

Priya Kuriyan, Larrisa Bertonasco, Ludmilla Bartscht

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Do You Remember Kunan-Poshpora?

Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq

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Desire and Its Discontents: Queer Politics in Contemporary India

Oishik Sircar

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Blowing Hot Blowing Cold

Husain

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A Terrible Matriarchy

Easterine Kire

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Ambiguity Machines, and Other Stories

Vandana Singh

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A Life Less Ordinary

Baby Halder

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21 Under 40: New Stories for a New Generation

Anita Roy

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101 Indian Children's Books We Love !

Samina Mishra

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Squiggle takes a walk

Natasha Sharma

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Seeing Like a Feminist

Menon Nivedita

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Lifelines – New Writing from Bangladesh

Farah Ghuznavi

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Writing Caste Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’S Testimonios

Sharmila Rege

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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...

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Women'S Eye, Women'S Hand - Making Art And Architecture In Modern India

D. Fairchild Ruggles

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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 ...

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Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Ashild Kolas

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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...

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Women Water Professionals: Inspiring Stories From South Asia

Sumi Krishna, Arpita De

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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. ...

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Why Would I Be Married Here: Marriage, Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India

Reena Kukreja

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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 ...

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Waves In The Hinterland: The Journey Of A Newspaper

Farah Naqvi

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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.

Waiting

Nighat Gandhi

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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...

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Voices and Values: The politics of Feminist Evaluation

Ratna M.Sudarshan

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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...

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Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood In Late Colonial Bengal

Mahua Sarkar

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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...

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Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora

Gayatri Gopinath

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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...

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Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of Women in the Tabhaga Movement

Kavita Panjabi

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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...

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Transgressing Boundaries: The Songs Of Shenkottai Avudai Akkal

Kanchana Natarajan

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Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women

Daniel Majchrowicz, Sunil Sharma

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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...

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The Violent Domestic: Law its Practice, and Strategies of Survival

Supurna Banerjee

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The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women's Lives in India

Mohan Rao

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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...

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The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health And Women’S Lives In India

Mohan Rao

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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...

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The Song Seekers

Saswati Sengupta

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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...

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The Search For Justice

Kumari Jayawardena, Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena

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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...

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The Life and Work of Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar

B Jeevasundari (Author), V Bharathi Harishankar

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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. ...

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