Against the Madness of Manu: B.R Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy
Sharmila Rege
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A feminist reading of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's writings, by Sharmila Rege.
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Sharmila Rege
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A feminist reading of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's writings, by Sharmila Rege.
A proposal to make India safe for women, through a gender equal and just society by 2047.
An accessible tour of feminist thinking through Indian debates on the family, the body, sexuality, desire and the law.
A landmark study arguing that women's own rights to land are central to their well-being and equality across South Asia.
Woolf argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write.
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The founding argument for women's education and rational equality with men.
The memoir of the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan's parliament, who denounced its warlords.
Afghan women's own accounts of war, exile and invasion, against the idea that foreign powers came to save them.
War and violencePostcolonial feminismAfghanistanEnglish176 pages
ed. Sharmila Rege
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Ambedkar's writings on caste and women, introduced by Rege as the work of a feminist thinker.
Examines the impact of racism and sexism on Black women, and feminism's blind spots.
Black feminismFeminist theoryUSAEnglish206 pages
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Cynthia Enloe
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Shows how international politics depends on women's work, from banana plantations to military bases.
Minoo Moallem
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How Islamic nationalism and Western representations both build gendered images of Iranian men and women.
Fatima Mernissi
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A pioneering study of sexuality, space and power between women and men in Morocco and Muslim thought.
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
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How Palestinian women in the Galilee make choices about family size amid state and nationalist pressures.
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.
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.
Prem Chowdhry
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How caste councils and families police marriage choices in Haryana, and the violence against couples who defy them.
Shows how colonial officials and Indian reformers argued over sati while the women burned were left out of the debate.
Key essays that set out Dalit feminist theory and its challenge to both mainstream feminism and caste politics.
Questions the rescue narratives used to justify war and intervention in the name of Muslim women.
Argues that misogyny is the system that polices and punishes women who challenge male dominance.
Feminist theoryPhilosophyUSAEnglish368 pages
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Afiya Shehrbano Zia
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Makes the case for secular feminist politics in Pakistan against the scholarly turn to religious agency.
An argument for women's freedom to take risks and make choices, against protection that becomes control.
Haideh Moghissi
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A critique of scholarship that treats Islamist movements as good for women, drawing on Iran after 1979.
A classic comparative history of women's movements tied to anti-colonial nationalism across Asia and the Middle East.
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.
A critique of white middle-class feminism and a call for a movement that starts from the margins.
A primer on the idea of gender and how it is produced in the family, at work and in culture. Part of the Theorizing Feminism series.
Essays on how caste and gender shape each other in modern India.
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Julie Peteet
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An ethnography of Palestinian women in the resistance movement in Lebanon's refugee camps.
Argues that gender is performed rather than innate.
Queer theoryFeminist theoryUSAEnglish221 pages
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Shows how caste is kept in place by controlling women's sexuality, marriage and labour, and why caste and gender have to be studied together.
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.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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On how Palestinian children in Jerusalem are arrested, detained and denied a childhood.
The Nobel laureate lawyer's account of defending women and children's rights in Iran after 1979.
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
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Clerics in Qom debate women's rights, and what these debates show about the possibilities of Islamic feminism.
An ethnography of how Afghan women navigated the gender politics of reconstruction after 2001.
Flavia Agnes
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A history of the personal laws of India's communities and how they shape women's rights in marriage, divorce and property.
An anthropology of how women lived with the violence of Partition and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in everyday life.
On how feminist theory is made in everyday life, from being a 'feminist killjoy' to building shelters for each other.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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How military occupation shapes violence against Palestinian women, and how women resist and survive it.
A novel following four generations of a Palestinian family from 1948 onwards.
A frank 1976 memoir of marriage, desire and writing.
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A history of Palestinian women's organising from the first intifada to the rise of Islamist women's movements.
A clear introduction to how patriarchy works, drawing on Indian and global examples. Part of the Theorizing Feminism series.
Maria Mies
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Links capitalism, colonialism and the unpaid work of women, drawing on research with women lace makers in India.
Marxist feminismGender and developmentGermanyEnglish254 pages
Saba Mahmood
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An ethnography of the women's mosque movement in Cairo that challenges liberal feminist ideas of agency.
Afsaneh Najmabadi
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An ethnography of trans and same-sex-desiring lives in Iran, and the state's policies on gender change.
An ethnography of rape trials showing how courts, police and medical examinations turn survivors' testimony into doubt.
A teacher's memoir of a secret class reading Western novels with young women in the Islamic Republic.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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Essays on how women are represented in Indian culture and politics, from sati to television and rape.
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.
Questions feminism's reliance on law and rights through debates on abortion, sexual violence and the Uniform Civil Code.
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.
How Western and Iranian feminists have imagined Persian women, from the nineteenth century to the diaspora.
A critique of how development theory and planning have treated women, and a framework for doing better.
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.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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On how surveillance and security reach into Palestinian homes, bodies and births in occupied East Jerusalem.
A history of marriage, sexuality and gender in Iran from the Qajar era to the Islamic Republic.
Wry diaries of daily life in Ramallah during curfews and sieges.
Essays and speeches on difference, anger, poetry and the uses of the erotic.
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A 1905 feminist utopia in which women run society and men are secluded.
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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.
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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Argues that gender was not a central organising category in Yorùbá society before colonialism.
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.
Torunn Wimpelmann
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How the international push to end violence against women in Afghanistan played out in law, courts and politics.
Naila Kabeer
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Compares Bangladeshi women garment workers in Dhaka and London to rethink choice, work and agency.
Looks at how the Indian state, law and citizenship shape women's lives.
Law and genderIndiaEnglish313 pages
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Nayanika Mookherjee
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How the wartime rape of women in 1971 has been remembered, used and silenced in Bangladesh.
ed. Kalpana Kannabiran
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Essays on everyday violence against women in India, from the home to the workplace and the state.
A short introduction to the difference between sex and gender and why it matters.
How Bedouin women and men use short poems to voice feelings their code of honour forbids them to say.
Reporting from women's struggles in 1970s Maharashtra, among farm labourers, workers and activists.
A short, plain-spoken introduction to patriarchy, written for workshops and first-time readers.
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 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.
A two-volume anthology of women's writing in India across languages and centuries.
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Essays comparing how states in Muslim-majority countries, from Turkey to Bangladesh, have shaped women's lives.
A history linking abolition, suffrage and labour to show how race and class shape feminist politics.
Black feminismMarxist feminismUSAEnglish258 pages
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A wide-ranging reader of key writing from Indian women's studies and the women's movement.
Sharmila Rege
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Translations of Dalit women's life narratives from Marathi, with Rege's argument for a Dalit feminist standpoint.