The narratives in this volume constitute immense challenges and small but profoundly significant triumphs. Located within a personal journey of emergence from a space fraught with silences and half-truths, the book documents the life-stories of ten working-class queer women living in north India. In doing so, it dispels the myth that lesbians in India are all urban, westernized and come from upper and middle classes. These real-life narratives create a space for voices with little or no privilege, providing these women with an opportunity to share their lived realities with one another and with others. The stories effectively challenge the notion of women as sexual beings without agency, and it is hoped, will influence the women’s movement towards the inclusion of lesbian women in the movement.
This ground-breaking work argues that 'homosexuality' cannot capture the many intersecting idioms of same-sex desire in India whose breadth and romance extend far beyond the term. Instead, Akhil Ka...
This reader attempts to see the workings of gender in day-to-day lives. The selection of material is wide ranging in terms of form and content, including creative writings in English and translations ...
Vasanth Kannabiran, noted feminist, activist, and writer gathers the many strands of her “helter-skelter” life to pen a feminist memoir that recounts not only the milestones in her own journey,...
The centrality of gender to nationalism, and to imagining the nation, has been convincingly argued by feminist scholars and activists across the world. As Rada Ivekovic says, it is probably the fir...
Revolutionary Desires examines the lives and subjectivities of militant-nationalist and communist women in India from the late 1920s, shortly after the communist movement took root, to the 1960s, w...
Lives of women, particularly in rural India, cannot be visualized without agriculture and allied activities. As per census of 2011 figures, four out of five women workers in rural India work as agr...
Androgyny is an engaging subject of discussion and research in the present times. This volume makes an effort to understand concepts of androgyny and 'nari bhav' or sensibility of the feminine beyo...
In a culture where large numbers of people continue to live in joint families, marriage is not just a bond between husband and wife. These kinship ties in India are strong bonds between families an...
The international financial system is in a transitional phase – the world centre of capitalist accumulation will soon be East Asia with Japan at its centre. Based on original research in Asia, th...
Working with Muslims goes down to the ground in eight major states of India and investigates the reality of non-government organizations and their development work, with the largest margin...