A few years ago, this reviewer was discussing women's representation in the media at a course on gender. The session focused on the invisibility of women's
Mailing pink chaddis, setting brasseries afire and more, all for the sake of women´s rights.
According to popular myth, women's-libbers of the 1960s burned their brassieres
The relationship between feminism and the left movements in India has long been a contested one. Marxists accuse feminists of trying to subvert the politics of class, while feminists criticise
A review of 'Women, Gender and Development Reader' edited by Nalini Visvanathan, Lynn Duggan, Laurie Nisonoff and Nan Wiegersma, New Delhi: Zubaan 2006.
Two anthropologists examine the Maoists' claims of radical social transformation in the light of women's experiences on the ground. Based on fieldwork in several areas, they consider
Under-5 mortality rate
Seven Million South Asian r children under the age of five died in 1990. In 2000 the figure had declined to about 3 million. However, the
Inventing Boundaries—Gender, Politics and the Partition of India Edited by Mushirul Hasan Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2000 ISBN: 019 565103 0
Pakistan came into being not simply because
The Nepali Supreme Court's landmark decision against virginity tests reaffirms the legal definition of marriage but it is not as progressive as it appears to be.
