Product Description: Against Purity confronts the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues of gender with other forms of difference, such as race, ethnicity and nation. This pioneering study places recent feminist theory from India in critical conversation with the work of key Western thinkers such as Butler, haraway and Irigaray and argues that, through such postcolonial encounters, contemporary feminist thought can begin to work 'against purity' in order to develop more complex models of power, identity and the self, ultimately to redefine 'women' as the subject of feminism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reprint of 1995 edition. In this newly-expanded edition of a highly regarded collection of papers, two women anthropologists explore unifiying themes in the ancient tradition and modern reality of the lives of Indian women. This covers women as goddesses and wives, women and Hindu tradition, Hindu childbirth rituals, and women and jewelry in Central India...read more

Product Description: This is the first systematic and comprehensive history of the status of women in Orissa from the earliest times to the present.

Contributed research papers.

Product Description: This study describes and analyses the new social movements that have arisen in India over the past two decades, in particular the anti-caste movement (of both the untouchables and the lower-middle castes), the women's liberation movement, the farmers' movement (centred on struggles arising out of their integration into a state-controlled capitalist market), and the environmental movements (opposition to destructive development, including resistance to big dam projects and the search for alternatives)...read more

Autobiography of a scholar and woman activist.

Product Description: Book by Maitra0Sinha, Anjana

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Study, with special reference to India.

Product Description: Religious and social moves have long relegated women in India to low status, and only recently has public pressure grown strong enough to challenge their unequal treatment. This volume analyzes the emergence and growing popularity of Indian women's groups as well as the reasons behind their formation and evolution...read more

Product Description: Book by Lateef, Shahida (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)