Feminism in India: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDF565 |
| Author: | Edited By: Maitrayee Chaudhuri |
| Publisher: | Women Unlimited |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2006 |
| ISBN: | 8188965219 |
| Pages: | 359 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5" X 5.5" |
| Weight | 510 gm |
Book Description
The second in the series Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism this volume brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they discuss feminism in the context of the culture society and politics of India providing an overview of the history of Indian feminism. These essays shoe how the women's movement is part of the larger project of consolidating secularism and democracy in India. The inevitability of the association with western feminism the status of women in colonial and independent India and recent challenges to feminism posed by the tide of globalization and the upsurge of the Hindu Right are discussed at length.
About the Author:
MAITRAYEE CHAUDHURI teaches sociology at the Centre for the study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has written widely on different aspects of gender studies. Her earlier works include The Indian Women's Movement: Reform and Revival and The Practice of Sociology. Her current research interests are cultural and political aspects of globalization, and pedagogical questions.
| Series Note Rajeswari Sunder Rajan |
V | |
| Acknowledgement | X | |
| Introduction Maitrayee Chaudhuri |
Xi | |
| 1 | 'Feminism': Questions From the Indian Context | 1 |
| Some Questions on Feminism and Its Relevance in South Asia Kamla Bhasin and Nighat Said khan |
3 | |
| Feminism: Indian Ethos and Indian Convictions Suma Chitnis |
8 | |
| A Horror of 'Isma': Why I do not Call Myself a Feminist Madhu Kishwar |
26 | |
| Feminism in India and the West: Recasting a Relationship Mary E. John |
52 | |
| Thinking Beyond Gender in India Ruth Vanita |
69 | |
| 2. | Some Early Feminist Visions | 80 |
| Stri Purush Tulana by Tarabai Shinde. Extract from a Comparison Between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Rosalind O'Hanlon |
82 | |
| Stray thoughts of an Indian Girl by Cornelia Sorabji, The Nineteenth Century, October 1891. Antoinette Burton |
94 | |
| Sultana's Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones Rokeya Sakhawat Hossian |
103 | |
| 3. | The Nationalist Feminist Framework and Some Questions | 115 |
| The Indian Women Movement Maitrayee Chaudhuri |
117 | |
| Appendix No. 6 What Swaraj will Include Karachi Congress Resolution,1931 | 134 | |
| Report of the sub-Committee, Women's Role in Planned Economy, National Planning Committee Series (1947) Leela Kasturi |
136 | |
| Periyar, Women and an Ethic of Citizenship V. Geetha |
156 | |
| 4. | Feminism in Independent India | 175 |
| Women's Movement: Some Idealogical Debates Gail Omvedt |
177 | |
| Women's Politics in India Ilina Sen |
187 | |
| Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of Difference and towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position Sharmila Rege |
211 | |
| 5. | Challenges to Feminism: Globalization and Hindutva | 226 |
| Birthing terrible Beauties: Feminisms and 'Women Magazines' Ipshita Chanda |
228 | |
| Gender and Development in India, 1970-90s: Some reflections on the Constitutive Role of Contexts Mary E. John |
246 | |
| Problem for a Contemporary Theory of Gender Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana |
259 | |
| Feminism in the Print Media Maitrayee Chaudhuri |
271 | |
| Women's Enpowerment as International Showbiz: Rendezvous in Niala Vimala Ramachandran |
280 | |
| 6. | 'Indigenous Feminisms'? | 284 |
| New Movement and New Theories in India Gail Omvedt |
286 | |
| Marathi Literature as a Source for Contemporary Feminism Vidyut Bhagwat |
296 | |
| Is the Hindu Goddess a Feminist? rajeswari Sunder Rajan |
318 | |
| Perspectives for a Grassroots Feminist Theory U. Kalpagam |
334 | |
| Bibliography | 349 | |
| Contributors | 354 | |
