Sociology and Anthropology

Feminists & Science Critiques & Changing Perspectives in India by Sumi Krishna, 9381345074, 9789381345078, StreeSamya

About the Book Feminist Subversion and Complicity brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who...

Feminism in the United States: A Concise Introduction presents readers with the key debates and ideas central to contemporary US feminism. With a f...

About the Book Feminism is outmoded. Or so it would seem in the academy, where feminism is outflanked by issues of globalization and localization, ...

About the Book Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about th body and it's importance in western culture. They are assumed to be fi...

About the Book Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost. Too good to be true? T...

About the Book This distinctive text makes social theory accessible to and usable by students. Whereas social theory is often seen as abstract, eso...

About the Book Originally published in 1975. The main concern of this book is the nature of the gap between the theoretical issues, raised at an ab...

About the Book By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy d...

The unifying motif of Bimal Krishna Matilal's work is the study of rational traditions in Indian philosophical thought. With his ability to span th...

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of E...

About the Book Healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. Both the central and the...

This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disa...

Sailing Safe in Cyberspace is an excellent resource on safe computing. It gives in-depth exposure to the various ways in which security of informa...

About the Book: Empire Calling: Administering Colonial Australasia and India The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the men...

About the Book Anna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly becoming ...

About the Book Since the key developments that policy and research have undergone over the course of the past years, meeting the specific needs of ...

About the Book Introducing the concept of observation to social work students can be a complex and challenging task. Assessing their observation sk...

About the Book More than a third of out-of-school children of the world live in South Asia. The promise of universal quality education for all chil...

This book examines the phenomenon of colorism in India and the Global South and critically analyses the obsession with fair skin and its associatio...

About the Book An increasing number of poor women in urban India work as maids in middle-class households. However, this sector of unorganized labo...

About the Book A timely revision of a compassionate guide to the practical and emotional aspects of divorce The first edition of Divorce and New B...

About the Book South Asia's significant water resources are unevenly distributed, with about a fifth of the population lacking adequate access. Acr...

This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulation...

Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism In New Delhi

About the Book Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, Disputed Legacies examines the situat...

About the Book This study highlights some emerging issues in the study of displaced persons in India, like the agency and voices of people who flee...

This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized ...

Disability and Care Work: State, Society and Invisible Lives explores the lived reality of children with disabilities and those involved in parent...

About the Book Through proven learning experiences that are as close to real-life practice as can be obtained from a book, DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACT...

About the Book This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about ne...

This study of one of the earliest social reform movements in Kerela investigates the relationship between social reform, religion and caste.

About the Book This book addresses a gap in the academic and professional literature in the area of criminal justice social work.   This compilati...

About the Book The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the sam...

About the Book This work is about the Qureshi Muslim butchers of Delhi-an endogamous group among Muslims in India, traditionally involved in the Is...

About the Book We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigrati...

This book problematises and then reshapes critical social work to bring a range of perspectives to what constitutes truly effective and ethical soc...

About the Book Language users ordinarily suppose that they know what thoughts their own utterances express. We can call this supposed knowledge min...

One in every six women in the world lives in India, more than the combined female populations of North America, the European Union and the Middle E...

About the Book Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling et...

About the Book There is a scarcity of professional literature and research that focuses on women's spiritual development and experiences and how th...

About the Book George Curzon was post-Mutiny India's most imperialistic Viceroy. From 1899-1905, he attempted to single-handedly implement a 12 poi...

About the Book How does one achieve a sense of freedom and meaning in a confusing, over-bureaucratized, and unequal world? Scott McNall offers the ...