9780143063773-0143063774-Women's Studies in India: A Reader

Women's Studies in India: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780143063773
ISBN-10: 0143063774
Edition: 1st Ed.
Author: Mary E. John
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 680 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780143063773
ISBN-10: 0143063774
Edition: 1st Ed.
Author: Mary E. John
Publication date: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 680 pages

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Women's Studies in India: A Reader (ISBN-13: 9780143063773 and ISBN-10: 0143063774), written by authors Mary E. John, was published by Penguin Books in 2008. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Women's Studies in India: A Reader (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.34.

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Women s studies first emerged in India during the 1970s as a forceful critique of those processes that had made women invisible after independence invisible not only to society and the state, but also to higher education and its disciplines. Since that beginning, so much has happened in this already vast field that it would be hard to find a major issue or subject that has not been addressed by scholars and activists. This comprehensive reader sets out to provide a map of the development of women s studies and the ever expanding terrain that it has been investigating. The introduction explores the growth of the field from the upheavals of the 1970s to the transformed conjunctures of the 1990s. In the process, the often elusive relationships between women s studies, the women s movement and the structures of higher education are highlighted. Over eighty edited essays have been brought together in this single volume under distinct thematic clusters from the new beginnings of the 1970s to politics, history, development, violence, the law, education, health, family and household, caste and tribe, religion and communalism, sexualities, and literature and the media. This reader is for both newcomers to women s studies and for those who have long been part of it. Book Reviews
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