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Book review: Heta Pandit (Transl.), Grinding Stories Retold: Songs from Goa Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Smita Tewari Jassal
Heta Pandit (Transl.), Grinding Stories Retold: Songs from Goa. The Heritage Network, 2021, 175 pages, ₹900 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-93-5566-083-1.
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Challenging Stigma, Shame and the Social Control of the Menstruating Body: Women’s Resistance in Contemporary India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Sancharini Mitra, Kalpana Karunakaran
The year 2015 saw a series of mobilisations, primarily by young students in India, which sought to destigmatise and visibilise the menstruating body through online activism and university-based campaigns in Delhi, Kolkata and Kochi. These campaigns foregrounded sexual violence and harassment through the lens of menstruation, pointing towards the institutional apathy towards sexual violence, yet disgust
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Book review: A. R. Vasavi, Differentiation and Disjunction: Interrogating India’s Education System Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Nirmali Goswami
A. R. Vasavi, Differentiation and Disjunction: Interrogating India’s Education System. Orient BlackSwan, 2022, 236 pp., ₹895. ISBN: 978-93-544-2306-2.
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Limits of Intelligibility: A Critique of The Legal Discourse on Intersexuality in Kerala Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Parvathy Das, Reju George Mathew
Intersex infants and individuals are subjected to inhuman violations, such as intrusive medical procedures and discriminating practices, all over the world. In India, it is a direct violation of the fundamental rights bestowed upon citizens. The article looks critically at the introduction of a third category, ‘intersex’/‘cannot be identified’, in birth and death registrations in Kerala. By locating
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Guardianship Law in India: Examining the Principle of ‘Best Interests’ of Minors and the Rights of Single Mothers as Sole Guardians Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-03 Shalu Nigam
Motherhood is glorified in history, literature, mythology and the media. Yet, despite the tenets of equality promised by the Constitution of India, the guardianship law upholds the rights of fathers, not mothers, as the natural guardians of minors. However, these rights are not absolute. This essay analyses the case law over decades, wherein single mothers have used their agency to knock on the courts’
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Work and Family: Conversations About Identity with Middle-class Women Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Mala Khullar, Ratna M. Sudarshan
‘Personal identity’ is a composite of several intersecting roles and performances, not a starting point but the net outcome of ascribed and achieved statuses. With the myriad transformations underway in India, are gendered identities also changing? We seek to throw light on the construction of educated middle-class women’s identity in the light of newer norms and to find out why so many educated women
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‘Are You a Real Woman?’: Stigma and the Childfree Indian Woman Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Meera Suresh Babu
India, a highly pronatalist country, places motherhood as a core element in defining women. Therefore, it is in this context that the choice of more and more women to be childfree needs to be analysed. This study attempted to explore the stigma and social exclusion faced by childfree women at home and in social settings. The qualitative methodology involving narrative enquiry was used to conduct in-depth
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Book review: Thea Buckley, Mark Thornton Burnett, Sangeeta Datta and Rosa García-Periago (Eds.), Women and Indian Shakespeares Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Angelie Multani
Thea Buckley, Mark Thornton Burnett, Sangeeta Datta and Rosa García-Periago (Eds.), Women and Indian Shakespeares. The Arden Shakespeare-Bloomsbury, 2022, 297 pp., ₹11,782 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1-3502-3432-1.
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Book review: Jayapadma R. V., Neelima Khetan and Vikram Singh Mehta (Eds.), Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Interventions That Made a Difference, Harper Collins India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Devika Bordia
Jayapadma R. V., Neelima Khetan and Vikram Singh Mehta (Eds.), Anchoring Change: Seventy-Five Years of Grassroots Interventions That Made a Difference, Harper Collins India, 2022, 380 pp., ₹469, (Paperback). ISBN: 93562918X.
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New Resources Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Madhu Shree, Akhlak Ahmad
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Book review: Shannon Philip, Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Post Colony Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Ketaki Chowkhani
Shannon Philip, Becoming Young Men in a New India: Masculinities, Gender Relations and Violence in the Post Colony. Cambridge University Press, 2022, 197 pages, £75. ISBN: 978-1-009-15871-8.
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Migrant South Asian Women in the Basque Country, Spain: Processes of Empowerment Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Simona Sokolovska, María Silvestre Cabrera
This work describes the personal and social empowerment of migrant women from South Asia in the Basque Country 1 , Spain, through the life history method. Gender roles, cultural identity and the migratory process as a transformative instrument are discussed. Based on in-depth interviews, and individual and group analysis of life histories, the findings indicated that migration had a positive effect
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Book review: Seema Chishti, Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family. Harper Collins Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Sakshi Dogra, Simi Malhotra
Seema Chishti, Sumitra and Anees: Tales and Recipes from a Khichdi Family. Harper Collins, 2022, 189 pp., ₹399 (Paperback). ISBN:978-93-5489-588-3.
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Reading Between the Lines: Maternity Benefit Law in India and Whom It Truly Benefits Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Suma Dadke
The gendered and performative role of motherhood, an ideal of patriarchy, has been codified into the letters of law. A feminist lens has been applied to understand how motherhood and patriarchy interact within the maternity benefit law in India, which is primarily regulated by the Maternity Benefit Act, 1961, as amended in 2017. An attempt is made to determine whether the extant law truly benefits
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Photograph Albums as Memory Banks Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Malvika Karlekar
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Book review: Ipshita Nath, Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Ranjana Sengupta
Ipshita Nath, Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India. Harper Collins, 2022, 325 pages, ₹699 (Hardbound). ISBN: 978-93-5629-008-2.
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Interested Gazes and Invisible Audiences: Judicial Narratives on Sex Work Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Stuti Rai
The dominant paradigm in Indian legal review is doctrinal and empirical. However, judgements of the Supreme Court of India are often couched in rhetoric and literary sources. In this regard, the law and literature paradigm has created different interpretive tools, including law as literature and literature in law. These are the tools that I utilise to explore how sex work is understood and how the
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Book review: Vibhuti Patel and Nandita Mondal (Eds.), Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Ishan Anand
Vibhuti Patel and Nandita Mondal (Eds.), Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India. Springer Nature, 2022, 277 pp., ₹10,858, ISBN 978-9811699733 (Hardcover).
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Book review: Ruth Vanita, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Kumkum Roy
Ruth Vanita, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species. Oxford University Press, 2022, 287 pages, ₹1,795. ISBN:9780192859822 hardback.
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The Precariat in Our Lives: Women Domestic Workers Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Mohan Rao
Caring Hands, Fragile Health: Unravelling Women’s Occupational Health and Well-being in Domestic Work, Jagori, New Delhi, 2023.
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New Resources Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Madhu Shree, Akhlak Ahmad
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Book review: Norena Shopland, A History of Women in Mens’ Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Anuja Jose
Norena Shopland, A History of Women in Mens’ Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment. Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2021, 344 pages, ₹1,679
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Social Implications of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) on Women in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Papia Raj, Puja Krishna
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a technological innovation enabling infertile women to conceive through medical procedures. However, social inferences of IVF need to be contextualised within gender dynamics, especially in India. Though several studies have examined specific social aspects of IVF none have delineated the combination of determinants as well as implications of IVF for women. The present
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Book review: Trina Nileena Banerjee, Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Jhuma Basak
Trina Nileena Banerjee, Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2021), 354 pp., ₹1795 (Hardbound). ISBN 978-0-19-012770-1.
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Constructing Adolescent Sexuality Through Schooling: Analysis on Gender Socialisation in All-girls Schools at the Secondary Level in Kerala Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Sathya Narendran
This article seeks to understand the processes of gender socialisation in schools. The article endeavours to analyse the construction of normative femininity in the strict contours of schooling and to capture the response of students to it. The context of this article is the critique of the celebrated Kerala development model, suggesting that a better status for women continues to be a challenging
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The Impact of COVID on Kerala Fish-vending Women Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Johnson Jament, Caroline Osella
This article discusses women’s role in Kerala’s small-scale marine fishing industry and changes that took place during COVID-19. Pandemic conditions enabled and accelerated the restructuring of Kerala’s fishing industry practices, leaving marginal groups even more marginal. Small-scale producers and sellers were edged out by larger players in a new wholesale market. Meanwhile, female vendors who utilised
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An Autoethnographic Reflection of COVID-19 and/as Biographical Disruption Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Anita Ghai, Suchaita Tenneti
The COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant measures to mitigate it have exacerbated pre-existing social inequalities and have proven to be major disruptive phenomena at both individual and community levels. People with disabilities and chronic illnesses have been some of the most drastically impacted social groups during the pandemic whose isolation and vulnerabilities have often been compounded in the
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Book review: Uma Chakravarti, Sadhana Arya and Vasanthi Raman (Eds), Stree Adhyayan: Ek Parichay Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Wandana Sonalkar
Uma Chakravarti, Sadhana Arya and Vasanthi Raman (Eds), Stree Adhyayan: Ek Parichay (trans. Vijay Jha). Vani Prakashan, 2021, 456 pages, ₹499 (paperback), ₹795 (hardbound). ISBN 8194939801.
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Book review: Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.), Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Deepa S. Reddy
Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.), Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism. Cambridge University Press, 2022, 360 pages (Hardbound). ISBN 978-1009123143.
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New Resources Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Madhu Shree, Akhlak Ahmad
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Book review: Nazia Akhtar, Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Shefali Jha
Nazia Akhtar, Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose. Orient Blackswan & The New India Foundation, 2022, 432 pages, ₹995. ISBN: 978-9354420641.
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Book review: Fearless Freedom Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Indu Agnihotri
Kavita Krishnan, Fearless Freedom. Penguin, 2020, 264 pages (e-book).ISBN 978-0143444688.
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Book review: Jayati Ghosh, The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Padmini Swaminathan
Jayati Ghosh, The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India. Aleph Book Company, 2022, 271 pages, ₹799 (Hardbound). ISBN 978-93-90652-96-9.
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Book review: Pamela Philipose, A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic’s Shadow Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Rinju Rasaily
Pamela Philipose, A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic’s Shadow. Yoda Press, 2023, 109 pages, ₹258 (Paperback). ISBN 978-9-38-257988-5.
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Gender During the Pandemic: Issues at Stake Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 A. Suneetha
COVID pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities as well as those between researchers and the researched. This experiential note discusses the ethical dilemmas and practical difficulties that I as a feminist researcher and activist have encountered between 2020 and 2022. This was while in the process of my research as well as engagement with COVID-19-related advocacy work. I argue that, even as one
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Hindu-Right Activism in Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Durga Vahini in Covid-19 Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Manisha Chachra
Women’s activism in the Hindu right has gone through communication and mobilisation shifts in the context of Covid-19. The article traces how the hierarchy and coordination within the Durga Vahini—...
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Women and Resistance in the Conflict-Affected Bodoland Territorial Council Region of Assam Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Amrita Saikia
The Bodoland territorial council (BTC) region of Assam has witnessed many conflicts in the past. The women of the conflicting communities, Bodo, Bengali-speaking Muslims, and Adivasi, have largely ...
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COVID-19 and Its Impact on Diverse Aspects of Women’s Lives Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Alfred J. Lawrence, Umama Fatima, Faiza Ali, Ancey Abraham, Saima Arif, Tahmeena Khan
The objective of this article is to study the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of women by exploring different aspects like their daily work patterns, hygiene practices, psychological effects and nu...
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The ‘Housewife’ on an Education Mission: An Ethnographic Portrait Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Hem Borker
The article employs the ethnographic portrait of the founder and co-owner of a chain of girls’ madrasas in a Muslim-dominated mofussil town in Uttar Pradesh to illuminate the current moment at whic...
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Disempowering Women and Constructing Muslims as ‘Other’: A Study of India’s Anti-Conversion Legislations Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Mohammad Jamshed, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, Sameena Banu
As a constitutional democracy, India remains committed to the cherished values of individual liberty and freedom of conscience which form the core of the fundamental rights enshrined in our constit...
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Falling Between the Cracks: Women’s Work and the Periodic Labour Force Survey Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Jyoti Thakur
This article reflects upon the changes introduced in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and their impact on the visibility of women’s work in India. In 2017–2018, the National Sample Survey Or...
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Book review: Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan. Witch Hunts: Culture Patriarchy and Structural Transformation Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Smita Tewari Jassal
Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan. Witch Hunts: Culture Patriarchy and Structural Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 272 pages, ₹699. ISBN 9781108490511 (Hardback).
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Book review: Kesav Desiraju, Gifted Voice the Life and Art of M. S. Subbulakshmi Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Lakshmi Subramanian
Kesav Desiraju, Gifted Voice the Life and Art of M. S. Subbulakshmi (Harper Collins, 2021), 499 pages, ₹699. ISBN 9789390327546 (Paperback).
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Book review: Mary E. John and Meena Gopal (Eds), Women in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Ritu Dewan
Mary E. John and Meena Gopal (Eds), Women in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives (Orient BlackSwan, 2021), 423 pages, ₹995, ISBN 9788194925897 (Paperback).
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Book review: Asha Hans, Amrita Patel, Bidyut Monhanty and Swarnamayee Tripathy, Women Reinventing Development: The Odisha Experience Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Sarada Prasanna Das
Asha Hans, Amrita Patel, Bidyut Monhanty and Swarnamayee Tripathy, Women Reinventing Development: The Odisha Experience (New Delhi: Aakar, 2020), 333 pp., ₹995, ISBN 978-93-5002-67-17 (Hardbound).
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The Letters of Sushila Gandhi: From Press Worker to Managing Trustee of Phoenix Settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977 Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
An epistolarium of over 80 letters written by a first-generation Gujarati migrant woman to South Africa provides the basis for the construction of her biography. The personal register of the letter...
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Book review: Muhammadi Begum, A Most Noble Life: The Biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum (1840–1903) Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Maroona Murmu
Muhammadi Begum, A Most Noble Life: The Biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum (1840–1903). C. M. Naim (Trans.) (Orient BlackSwan, 2022), 188 pages, ₹630 (Paperback). ISBN 9789354421150.
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Book review: Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Kumkum Roy
Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan (Oxford University Press, 2019), xxvii + 292 pages, ₹1195 (Hardback).
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Bodies That Cohere: Notes on Ganja and Gender in Colonial India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Utathya Chattopadhyaya
This essay explores what might result if histories of empire and colonialism took the material relationships of human and plant bodies as a fundamental framework. Gender both structured, and was re...
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Stranded: Indian Travelling Ayahs Negotiating Waiting and Repatriation Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Arunima Datta
The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both colonisers and colonised. This article focuses on the experiences of travelling ayahs (servants and nannies) who t...
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When Doors Are Opened Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Sharada Nayak
Exclusion of widows and discrimination. A village woman, unlettered and widowed, is employed to take care of three little girls. She argues that daughters and sons should have equity; that a daught...
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New Histories of Gender, Mobility and Labour: India and the Indian Diaspora Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Antoinette Burton
This essay introduces the themes of the special issue, with particular attention to the work of gender in restructuring social, economic and political histories.
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Introduction to the Book Forum on Ishita Pande’s Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Antoinette Burton
Introduction to the Book Forum on Ishita Pande’s Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937
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Women in Cantonments: Evolution of Regulated Military Prostitution in Colonial India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Sonia Mondal
From the mid-19th century the existence of a large number of native prostitutes in the British military cantonments confirmed the widespread prevalence of state-authorised prostitution in colonial ...
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Presence Without Empowerment?: Women in Rural Local Government in Bangladesh Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Nishat Afroze Ahmed, Md. Mohiuddin
This article explores the role of reserved-seat women members of the Union Parishad, the lowest unit of local government in Bangladesh. The number of women representatives has increased manifold ov...
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A Hauntology of Clandestine Transmissions: Spectres of Gender and Race in Electronic Music Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Chantelle Gray
Electronic music is often presented as originating with the Futurists, John Cage, Robert Moog, Kraftwerk and the Detroit techno scene, yet such descriptions elide the role of women in the history o...
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‘No Country for Old Women’: Female Aging in Bollywood Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Saurav Kumar
In 2013, Sharmila Tagore1 called Bollywood ‘[n]o country for old women’.1 Like all older women, aging female actors of Bollywood too have experienced what Susan Sontag calls ‘the double standard of...
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Locating Female Transgression against Heteronormative Society: A Comparative Study of Three African American Novels Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 U. H. Ruhina Jesmin
The study attempts to locate female transgressions against a racist and homophobic society as portrayed by Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor in their novels Loving Her (1974), The ...
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Book review: Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Padmini Swaminathan
Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020), 328 pp. ₹775 (Paperback), ISBN 9789390122073.
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Book review: Meera Kosambi, A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Veena Poonacha
Meera Kosambi, A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee. Ram Ramasamy, Madhavi Kolhatkar and Aban Mukerjee (Eds.) (London/New York: Routledge, South Asia Edition, 2020), 249 pages, ₹995, (Hardback). ISBN 9780429266386.