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Woolf argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write.
EssaysWomen's literatureUKEnglish143 pages
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The founding argument for women's education and rational equality with men.
Fatima Mernissi
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A pioneering study of sexuality, space and power between women and men in Morocco and Muslim thought.
Prem Chowdhry
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How caste councils and families police marriage choices in Haryana, and the violence against couples who defy them.
Tanika Sarkar
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Essays on how nineteenth-century Bengali nationalism, religion and print culture built the ideal of the Hindu wife.
A memoir of a Jerusalem childhood, exile in London and the loss that follows a family across generations.
A frank 1976 memoir of marriage, desire and writing.
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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.
A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer Pandita Ramabai and her challenge to Brahmanical patriarchy.
ed. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
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Two thousand years of writing on love between women and between men, from Indian literature and history.
A 1905 feminist utopia in which women run society and men are secluded.
Utopian fictionFictionIndiaEnglish24 pages
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Fawzia Koofi
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From an unwanted daughter left in the sun to deputy speaker of parliament: a politician's life.
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.
Khawar Mumtaz and Farida Shaheed
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A history of the Pakistani women's movement, including the resistance to Zia-ul-Haq's Islamisation laws.
Essays comparing how states in Muslim-majority countries, from Turkey to Bangladesh, have shaped women's lives.