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The sociologist Mangala Subramanian researched the women's movement in India since the 1970s in the context of globalization with attention to class, caste, religious and geographic influences. The book presents case studies of different programs of empowerment and the dalit movement.
The essays in this volume map the concerns of gender onto the terrain of nation, finding significant connections, disjunctions, and tensions between them. The authors argue that for any cultural analysis to be performed in the context of the decolonized nation-space, gender must take centre stage.
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The massive pornography and cosmetics industries that objectify women, as well as popular media and other male-centric industries that promote dangerous gender roles and stereotypes all comprise what Kamla refers to as "capitalist patriarchy."
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This collection of essays focuses on the post-1980s period of the Indian feminist movement, a moment rich in new and different modes of resistance, of widespread political engagements with issues of rights, of justice, of identity and much more. The writers here, all well-known activists and founders of some of the most important of feminist institutions, describe their individual and collective journeys, bringing attention to the movement, to their struggles, their campaigns, their victories and the challenges they have faced. In using the tools of feminist analysis – a focus on life stories, on oral accounts, on group formation and more – they also make a case for advocacy through lega...
This work includes 1000 entries covering the spectrum of defining women in the contemporary world.
With reference to India; contributed articles.
Contributed articles presented earlier at several seminars on women's studies and feminism in India.
The contributors to this volume look to the future of feminist theory and practice, specifically in terms of their complex relationship with the global and local configurations of postmodernity. It focuses on political issues and on questions of the body.