A Comparison Between Women and Men
Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
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11 booksFeminist history ×India ×
Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin
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Uses women's testimonies and government records to trace the abduction, 'recovery' and resettlement of women after 1947, and how the state decided where they belonged.
Shows how colonial officials and Indian reformers argued over sati while the women burned were left out of the debate.
Tanika Sarkar
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Essays on how nineteenth-century Bengali nationalism, religion and print culture built the ideal of the Hindu wife.
ed. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid
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Influential essays on how colonial rule and social reform reshaped patriarchy, caste and class in India.
Srila Roy
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Women's memories of the Naxalbari movement in Bengal, and the gendered violence within radical politics.
A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer Pandita Ramabai and her challenge to Brahmanical patriarchy.
An illustrated history of movements for women's rights and feminism in India from 1800 to 1990.
Urvashi Butalia
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Oral histories of Partition from women, children and Dalits, recovering the abductions, killings and silences missing from official accounts.
Urmila Pawar and Meenakshi Moon
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Recovers the part Dalit women played in Ambedkar's movement through interviews and archives. Translated by Wandana Sonalkar.
Reporting from women's struggles in 1970s Maharashtra, among farm labourers, workers and activists.