An accessible tour of feminist thinking through Indian debates on the family, the body, sexuality, desire and the law.
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12 booksFeminist theory ×English ×250 pages and over ×
An accessible tour of feminist thinking through Indian debates on the family, the body, sexuality, desire and the law.
Patricia Hill Collins
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Sets out Black women's knowledge as a standpoint and the 'matrix of domination' of race, gender and class.
Argues that misogyny is the system that polices and punishes women who challenge male dominance.
Feminist theoryPhilosophyUSAEnglish368 pages
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Kavita Krishnan
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An argument for women's freedom to take risks and make choices, against protection that becomes control.
A reader on the history and debates of Indian feminism, from colonial reform to contemporary politics.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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Collects Mohanty's essays, including 'Under Western Eyes', on decolonising feminism and building solidarity across borders.
On how feminist theory is made in everyday life, from being a 'feminist killjoy' to building shelters for each other.
Saba Mahmood
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An ethnography of the women's mosque movement in Cairo that challenges liberal feminist ideas of agency.
Questions feminism's reliance on law and rights through debates on abortion, sexual violence and the Uniform Civil Code.
How Bedouin women and men use short poems to voice feelings their code of honour forbids them to say.
Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade
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Argues that women's right to loiter in the city, without purpose or excuse, is the real test of their access to public space.
A wide-ranging reader of key writing from Indian women's studies and the women's movement.
