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.
Bina Agarwal
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A landmark study arguing that women's own rights to land are central to their well-being and equality across South Asia.
ed. Sharmila Rege
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Ambedkar's writings on caste and women, introduced by Rege as the work of a feminist thinker.
Minoo Moallem
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How Islamic nationalism and Western representations both build gendered images of Iranian men and women.
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.
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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An argument for women's freedom to take risks and make choices, against protection that becomes control.
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.
Essays on how caste and gender shape each other in modern India.
Caste and genderAnthologyIndiaEnglish390 pages
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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.
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.
A novel following four generations of a Palestinian family from 1948 onwards.
A history of Palestinian women's organising from the first intifada to the rise of Islamist women's movements.
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.
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.
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.
A history of marriage, sexuality and gender in Iran from the Qajar era to the Islamic Republic.
Fawzia Koofi
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From an unwanted daughter left in the sun to deputy speaker of parliament: a politician's life.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
AnthologyWomen's literatureIndiaEnglish576 pages
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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.
