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
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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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Author: Nair, Janaki & John, Mary E
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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
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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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