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A major study on gender and property in South Asia. Makes significant contributions to current debates on land reform, women's status and the nature of resistance.

Part of series: Three reports from Saheli: the first on anti-fertility vaccine research directed against women at the expense of their health

Part of series: Two volumes of selected articles on the girl child written by journalists on a media fellowship programme of the National Foundation for India

The object of this study of the attitudes of Muslim women was to understand their special needs and to analyse the impact of prevailing measures on them.

A real treat for all those in the women's movement who are involved in the area of health, reproduction and sexuality. Well-illustrated.

Clears many of the misconceptions surrounding feminism and its role in South Asian societies.

A handy introduction to the women's movement in India.

Part of series: Extraordinary compilation of original writing on issues relating to the liberation and emancipation of women and the assertion of their fundamental role in society.

Conservations with women on religion, spirituality and communalism.

Securalism under siege is a detailed documented account of the genesis, growth and development of the Ayodhya controversy, and its transformation from a local dispute into a national issues with international ramifications and finally the storming of the Babri Masjid by the saffron warriors.

A unique compilation of essays that records historical experiences of gender and resistance.

Sama is a Delhi based women’s group that is actively associated with campaigns against technologies that target women’s bodies and take control of their reproductive potential. To examine how these contraceptive technologies adversely affect the health and well being of women Sama conducted extensive research on the subject, interviewing large number of women so as to give voice to women’s own experiences, their perceptions of fertility and the context of their social realities which influences their decisions. The report titled Assisted Reproductive Technologies ad Women is the result of this exercise. Useful for those concerned with health and women’s issues.

In this book, published originally in Konkani, an ace counselor and social worker of great repute passes on the knowledge she has gained from over two decades of counseling to advice parents on how to bring up their children in a way that provides them care and affection but does not stifle them or prevent them from being themselves.

This book discusses the impact of globalization on women workers in general and in India as well and argues that it has been marked by declining wages, cultural degradation and widening gap between male female employment. Four sectoral studies of women workers are provided: two on factory women in garment exports, the third on home-based workers in a range of manufacturing processes and electronic industries and the fourth in the IT sector.

For the last quarter of a century the author, an IIT graduate, has worked among Bhil advasis in Central India, helping them in their struggle to preserve and protect their environment and cultural identity from destruction by local, national and global exploitative forces. This book recounts the saga of struggles fought by this valiant community.

Poetry from the pen of a well known Goan journalist.

Narratives of Women in Paradoxical Healing.

Twenty women who have made a critical contribution to the women’s, and women’s studies, movements recall the last quarter century of activism. Each memoir vividly covers the most momentous and memorable developments and campaigns of this period, recounting its triumphs and disappointments, speaking about alliances forged, reflecting on relationships lost – and found.