A Comparison Between Women and Men
Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
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Tarabai Shinde, ed. and trans. Rosalind O'Hanlon
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Tarabai Shinde's fierce 1882 Marathi attack on men's double standards, with Rosalind O'Hanlon's study of its world.
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
Fatima Mernissi
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A pioneering study of sexuality, space and power between women and men in Morocco and Muslim thought.
Three stories about women's bodies, labour and state violence.
Short storiesFictionIndiaBengali160 pages
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Haideh Moghissi
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A critique of scholarship that treats Islamist movements as good for women, drawing on Iran after 1979.
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.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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On how Palestinian children in Jerusalem are arrested, detained and denied a childhood.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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Essays on how women are represented in Indian culture and politics, from sati to television and rape.
How Western and Iranian feminists have imagined Persian women, from the nineteenth century to the diaspora.
Essays and speeches on difference, anger, poetry and the uses of the erotic.
EssaysBlack feminismUSAEnglish191 pages
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A Mahar woman's account of community life, caste oppression and the change brought by Ambedkar's movement. Translated by Maya Pandit.
Reporting from women's struggles in 1970s Maharashtra, among farm labourers, workers and activists.
Interviews with women held in solitary confinement in Iran, gathered by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.