Body Maps

The body as social and cultural text provides a rich site for creative experimentation in this collection of short stories by contemporary women writers of South Asia. In a world that tends to equate the body with biology, and feminity with the reproductive function, these writers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka interrogate these assumptions and rein scribe the body as a source of resistance and self-empowerment. Identity, history, myth, scientific experiment, social hierarchies, sexuality, nationalism, violence, ethics and ecology are interwoven issues for which the body in these stories becomes a powerful signifier. Together, these bodymaps chart a subversive female geography that startles with its boldly inclusive vision.

ISBN: 8189884026
Author: Chakravarty, Radha
Published by: Kali For Women
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At The Cutting Edge

A critical engagement with nationalism and its linkages with gender, class and ethnicity has animated much of Jayawardena's work. Her pioneering book on Third World feminism and nationalism showed that feminism was not a western import and that its existence and growth in emerging post-colonial nation states was distinctly related to their modernising impulses. Importantly she paved the way for an understanding of Third World feminisms as varied and rooted in regional, historical and cultural specificities.

ISBN: 8188965375
Autshor: Mel, Neloufer De & Thiruchandran, Selvy
Published by:Kali For Women
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A Terrible Matriarchy

Young Dielieno is five years old when she is sent off to live with her disciplinarian grandmother who wants her to grow up to be a good Naga wife and mother. According to Grandmother, girls don't need an education, they don't need love and affection, or time to play, or even a good piece of meat with their gravy! Naturally Dielieno hates her with a vengeance.

ISBN: 9788189884079
Author: Iralu, Easterine
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A Question Of Silence?

ISBN: 8186706089
Author: Nair, Janaki & John, Mary E
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A Question Of Silence?

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ISBN: 8186706089
Author: Nair, Janaki & John, Mary E
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A Princess`s Pilgrimage

In 1870, Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal became the first Muslim woman of publish an account of her Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite and observances, then returned to India and wrote her impressions of her visit.

ISBN: 8188965383
Author: Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan
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A Chughtai Collection

ISBN: 8186706771
Author: Chughatai, Ismat
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21 Under 40

This exciting new anthology showcases 21 of the best short stories by South Asian women under the age of 40. Ranging from the lyrical to the humourous to the darkly disturbing, these previously unpublished stories highlight the desires, concerns and obsessions of young women from the subcontinent. A new generation of writers is emerging who are boldly tackling new forms and styles, including historical detective fiction, graphic short stories, stories intercut with email and sms messages. The stories are as varied as the women themselves, and celebrate the diversity and range of women's literature for the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 8189884034
Author: Roy, Anita
Published by: Kali For Women
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No Space For Further Burials

It's September, 2002, one year after 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan. A U.S. army medical technician is taken captive by Afghan rebels while on a recce mission, and thrown into an asylum with a dozen or so other inmates. Are they refugees from the war? Derelicts? Fugitives on the run? Men and women mad with grief and loss, or just exhausted by the repeated violation of their country? This astonishingly powerful novel unfolds the tragedy of Afghanistan, as told by the captive narrator, in hauntingly beautiful prose.

ISBN: 8188965316
Author: Gauhar, Feryal Ali
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A Chughtai Collection

ISBN: 8186706771
Author: Chughatai, Ismat
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My Girlhood

ISBN: 8186706461
Author: Nasrin, Taslima
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My Friend, My Enemy

ISBN: 8186706372
Author: Chughtai, Ismat
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Mirrors & Gestures

ISBN: 8186706151
Author: Lakshmi, C S
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Militarism And Women In South Asia

ISBN: 8186706429
Author: Chenoy, Anuradha M
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Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities

This study of Muslim, Sinhala and Tamil households, in Sri Lanka examines both the commonality of patriarchal structures and economic problems in such households, as well as the differences created by the ethnicities that divide them. The author looks at the nature and reliability of kinship support for female heads and the reciprocal obligations in terms of female propriety and conventional conduct extracted from female heads..

ISBN: 8189013041
Author: Ruwanpura, Kanchana N
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Marketing Reproduction

The Reproductive and Child Health policy (RCH) in India has been in force since 1995. Coming after the Cairo conference, 1994, the RCH was expected to usher in a 'paradigm shift' in India's population policy. From a family welfare programme that has historically been top-down, even coercive, the Indian government projected the RCH to be a participatory, women-centred reproductive health service. Ironically, the policy was devised barely four years after the start of the Indian State's tryst with market development, and was launched into a political environment in ideological transition. This book provides a political analysis of the RCH policy, tracking how neo-liberal and, purportedly, women-centred reproductive health discourses are positioned against each other..

ISBN: 8189013025
Author: Simon-Kumar, Rachel
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Mai

A glimpse into the life and consciousness of women of three generations and of the men around them, in a North Indian middle class family. Written in a deceptively simple style, the novel weaves a web of images and events around Mai, the mother, as seen through the eyes of the daughter. The translation from Hindi is followed by a discussion of the many nuances of mother the relationship of fiction to social science, and the question of translation..

ISBN: 8186706186
Author: Shree, Gitanjali
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Killing Days

In the aftermath of the political upheavals of the 1970s many who suffered for their political convictions have recounted the ruthless tyranny of those dark times in prison memoirs. Here, Joya Mitra recalls the less fortunate ones, the ones she left behind. These are portraits of women who overstepped the boundaries of social norms sometimes unknowingly, but most often because they were deprived of all choice, women who were banished from society and kept in prisons for 'correction'. Translated for the first time from the original Bengal, Hanyaman, which won the prestigious Ananda Puraskar.

ISBN: Kali For Women
Author: Mitra, Joya
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Honour

A collection of essays that examine global strategies to address æhonour crimesÆ. The authors give voice to the struggle to locate æhonour crimesÆ firmly within the international framework of violence against women and human rights, rather than positioning these abuses as specific to particular cultures or communities. The book will serve as a resource in addressing these crimes and more broadly, violence against women..

ISBN: 8189013807
Author: Welchman, Lynn & Hossain, Sara
Published by: Kali For Women/Zubaan
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Gender, Matriliny, And Entrepreneurship

This book focuses on the economic activities of Khasi women, a matrilineal tribe in North-East India.Like most womens in tribal societies,Khasi women's contribute significantly to the sustenance of the family.However , women's contribution to the economy remains a largely neglected area both in research as well as in policy,not only in North-East India but also nationally and internationally.

ISBN: 9788189013769
Author: Nongbri, Tiplut
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Gender Justice, Citizenship & Development

Although there have been notable gains for women globally in the last few decades, gender inequality and gender-based inequities continue to impinge upon girls' and women's ability to realize their rights and their full potential as citizens and equal partners. In this book, studies from Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, are prefaced by an introductory chapter that links current thinking on gender justice to debates on citizenship, entitlements, and law and development. A concluding chapter situates the discussion of gender justice, citizenship and entitlements in current development debates on poverty alleviation and social exclusion. The book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading feminist scholars of sociology, political science and legal studies, among others, and in doing so, provides new insights for both advocacy and research..

ISBN: 818988431X
Author: Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee & Singh, Navsharan
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Gender In The Hindu Nation

The insightful essays in Gender In The Hindu Nation offer a detailed account of women who are active in the RSS. It analyses differences in their, and the RSS' articulation of the place that women occupy in their ideology, in symbolic space, and in a Hindu Rashtra. Based on carefully researched archival material, secondary sources, including RSS publications and documents, and personal interviews, this is a theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich contribution to an analysis of the nation and the RSS.

ISBN: 8188965022
Author: Bacchetta, Paola
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Forest Interludes

ISBN: 8186706267
Author: Agnihotri, Anita
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First There Was Woman & Other Stories

The Dungri Garasiya, an indigenous group in north Gujarat, believed that the first being to be created was woman and so in their society women were as respected as men and property passed down from mother to daughter. At the dawn of creation, girls were as desired as sons. It was a time when girls beat boys in games and races: a time when there was no gender divide. And so also in these stories it is the women who are stronger, wiser, faster, sharper, and certainly far more beautiful than their men. It is they who think out of the box, who are imaginative and creative and full of wise ideas. From tales of ghostly possession to magic mantras, from kings and queens full of passion to village youth bursting with sexual ardour, these timeless folktales are full of the joy of being alive, of sensual enjoyment and pleasure. While Kudrat (God is imagined as being feminine) and Deva conspire and wreak havoc on their people, the dance of life continues with naked young maidens swimming in the streams or being courted by dark handsome youths amidst much laughter and teasing. The forests are full of birds and beasts and fish and life for the tribals is for the most part simple and innocent, truth and right always prevail and defeat the forces of darkness - be it a scheming stepmother, a murderous wife or lover, or a cruel and lustful king.

ISBN: 9788189884352
Author: Sres, Marija
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Fields Of Protest

The woman's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of women live, work and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home and social lives. Whether fighting for safe contraception, literacy, water and electricity or resisting sexual harassment, they are participating in vibrant and active women's movements that are thriving in many parts of India today. Fields of Protest explores the political and cultural circumstances under which groups of women organise to fight for their rights and self-worth. Starting with Bombay and Calcutta, Raka Ray discusses the creation of "political fields"- structured, unequal, and socially constructed political environments within which organisations exists, flourish or fail. Women's organisations are not autonomous or free agents; rather they inherit a field and its accompanying social relations, and when they act, they act in response to it and within it.

ISBN: 8186706232
Author: Ray, Raka
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Feminist Futures

The contributors to this book articulate a new theoretical framework that they call "Women, Culture and Development". They apply it to a range of issues including sexuality and gender; environment, technology and science..

ISBN: 8189013610
Author: Bhavnani, Kum-Kum & Foran, John & Kurian, Priya
Published by: Kali For Women/Zubaan Books
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Feminism, Nationalism And Exiled Tibetan Women

ISBN: 8186706526
Author: Butler, Alex
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Feminism In India

Why is 'feminist' a label that some liberal, emancipated women recoil from? Why is feminism often associated with aggressive women who disrupt social norms and harmonious families? Feminism In India brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate the issue in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore the theoretical foundations of feminism here. The inevitability of the association with western feminism, the status of women in colonial and independent India, and the more recent challenges to Indian feminism posed by globalization and the upsurge of the Hindu Right in Indian politics are discussed at length. Bridging the academic/activist, personal/political and local/global divides, this collection of feminist writing shows how the movement is part of a larger project of consolidating the liberal values of secularism and democracy. This collection is invaluable as a succinct overview of Indian feminism..

ISBN: 8186706763
Author: Chaudhuri, Maitrayee
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Deconstructing Mental Illness

The ethnographic context of the study is the interface between mental health professionals, patients and their families in a local psychiatric hospital in New Delhi. The book anchors the discussion around feminist thinking and praxis in the mental health realm, along with the traditions of cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology. Deconstructing Mental Illnessis relevant and contemporary, and makes an important contribution to the field of mental health of women. This important new work extends the frontiers of social science research and offers alternative perspectives on women, health and disability.

ISBN: 9788189884093
Author: Addlakha, Renu
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Cool, Sweet Water

ISBN: 8186706208
Author: Mastur, Khadija
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Borders And Boundaries

In 1947 India was simultaneously freed and divided. Partition affected everyone in one way or another, but it had a particular impact on women as they struggled to put to put their lives back together again. How did they find their place in this land of redrawn boundaries? What was Nation to them? Religion? Community? Freedom itself? Through the stories of women and an accompanying narrative that locates them in a social and political context we get another view, from the margins, as it were, of that momentous time and look anew not only at how history gets written, but at those age-old boundaries of religion, community, gender and nation.

ISBN: 8186706356
Author: Menon, Ritu, Bhasin, Kamla
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Body Maps

The body as social and cultural text provides a rich site for creative experimentation in this collection of short stories by contemporary women writers of South Asia. In a world that tends to equate the body with biology, and feminity with the reproductive function, these writers from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka interrogate these assumptions and rein scribe the body as a source of resistance and self-empowerment. Identity, history, myth, scientific experiment, social hierarchies, sexuality, nationalism, violence, ethics and ecology are interwoven issues for which the body in these stories becomes a powerful signifier. Together, these bodymaps chart a subversive female geography that startles with its boldly inclusive vision.

ISBN: 8189884026
Author: Chakravarty, Radha
Published by: Kali For Women
For more information, please visit www.indiabookmart.com

At The Cutting Edge

A critical engagement with nationalism and its linkages with gender, class and ethnicity has animated much of Jayawardena's work. Her pioneering book on Third World feminism and nationalism showed that feminism was not a western import and that its existence and growth in emerging post-colonial nation states was distinctly related to their modernising impulses. Importantly she paved the way for an understanding of Third World feminisms as varied and rooted in regional, historical and cultural specificities.

ISBN: 8188965375
Author: Mel, Neloufer De & Thiruchandran, Selvy
Published by: Kali For Women
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A Terrible Matriarchy

Young Dielieno is five years old when she is sent off to live with her disciplinarian grandmother who wants her to grow up to be a good Naga wife and mother. According to Grandmother, girls don't need an education, they don't need love and affection, or time to play, or even a good piece of meat with their gravy! Naturally Dielieno hates her with a vengeance.

ISBN: 9788189884079
Author: Iralu, Easterine
Published by: Kali For Women
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A Question Of Silence?

ISBN: 8186706089
Author: Nair, Janaki & John, Mary E
Published by: Kali For Women
For more information, please visit www.indiabookmart.com

A Princess`s Pilgrimage

In 1870, Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal became the first Muslim woman of publish an account of her Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite and observances, then returned to India and wrote her impressions of her visit.

ISBN: 8188965383
Author: Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan
Published by: Kali For Women
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A Chughtai Collection

ISBN: 8186706771
Author: Chughatai, Ismat
Published by: Kali For Women
For more information, please visit www.indiabookmart.com

21 Under 40

This exciting new anthology showcases 21 of the best short stories by South Asian women under the age of 40. Ranging from the lyrical to the humourous to the darkly disturbing, these previously unpublished stories highlight the desires, concerns and obsessions of young women from the subcontinent. A new generation of writers is emerging who are boldly tackling new forms and styles, including historical detective fiction, graphic short stories, stories intercut with email and sms messages. The stories are as varied as the women themselves, and celebrate the diversity and range of women's literature for the twenty-first century.

ISBN: 8189884034
Author: Roy, Anita
Published by: Kali For Women
For more information, please visit www.indiabookmart.com