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21 booksFeminist history ×English ×
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.
Links the witch hunts to the rise of capitalism and the control of women's labour and bodies.
Marxist feminismFeminist historyItalyEnglish416 pages
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Nahla Abdo
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Testimonies of Palestinian women political prisoners and their resistance inside Israeli prisons.
Shows how colonial officials and Indian reformers argued over sati while the women burned were left out of the debate.
A classic comparative history of women's movements tied to anti-colonial nationalism across Asia and the Middle East.
Julie Peteet
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An ethnography of Palestinian women in the resistance movement in Lebanon's refugee camps.
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 history of Palestinian women's organising from the first intifada to the rise of Islamist women's movements.
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.
Frances S. Hasso
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A study of women in the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and how gender shaped their politics.
A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer Pandita Ramabai and her challenge to Brahmanical patriarchy.
A history of marriage, sexuality and gender in Iran from the Qajar era to the Islamic Republic.
An illustrated history of movements for women's rights and feminism in India from 1800 to 1990.
Ellen L. Fleischmann
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A history of the Palestinian women's movement under the British Mandate.
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.
Reporting from women's struggles in 1970s Maharashtra, among farm labourers, workers and activists.
A history of women in Islamic societies from the ancient Middle East to modern Egypt.
How Iranian women took part in, and were defined by, the constitutional revolution, modernisation and the Islamic revolution.
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.
Afsaneh Najmabadi
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How ideas of beauty, love and gender were remade as Iran modernised in the nineteenth century.
