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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.

Presents narratives of change wrought by women in the face of the often negative impact of development in their lives and on their environment.

Attempts to identify the areas of bias against women prevailing in society and presents a global picture of the status of women in textual materials. Offers practical suggestions to authors for developing alternative literature with a view to eliminating discrimination against women.

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.

The book is about 12 women who, in the course of their lives, challenged an exploitative status quo and worked, independently and together, to build a movement for women’s emancipation in India. These are extraordinary stories of extraordinary lives.

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.

A study of women in Pune district whose marriages had broken up. The study shows that women’s education in Maharashtra helps women make good wives rather than good, independent human beings and that these assumptions have remained unaltered even in the present century.

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.

The spirit and intent of the recently enacted Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act is praiseworthy. It is a landmark legislation intended to protect women in domestic relationships (wife, daughter, daughter-in-law, sister etc) in case of physical and other abuse. This Manual is specifically intended to act as a guide to understanding t he law, its implications, how it can be used . The Manual is written in a simple and user friendly manner and it is not necessary to have a legal background tounderstand the essence of the book, although lawyers and NGOs will find in it relevant case law to help them assist their clients.

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.