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Notable Selections A Comparison Between Women and Men - Tara Bai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonia by Rosalind O'Hanlon Why men don’t listen and women can’t read maps by Barbara   Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh - Remembering 1971 by Yasmin Saikia (ProductID: 30647 ~ ISBN: 8188965669 ~ Pub Year: 2011 ~ Pages: 302 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $55.00 USD Based on several oral accounts, this book traces the multiple experiences of Bangladeshi women in the 1971 war that led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Reservations for Women -, India by Meena Dhanda ,  Eminent Contributors (ProductID: 30639 ~ ISBN: 9788188965410 ~ Pub Year: 2008 ~ Pages: 390 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $55.00 USD This collection of essays and excerpts brings together, for the first time, a range of writings on the issue of affirmative action for increasing the presence of women in Parliament and legislative assemblies in India.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Staying Alive - Women, Ecology and Survival in India by Vandana Shiva (ProductID: 30646 ~ ISBN: 8188965588 ~ Pub Year: 2011 ~ Pages: 224 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $24.95 USD Taking the three related concerns of development, ecology and gender, this book argues that there is an intimate link between the degradation of women and the degradation of nature in contemporary society.   (Explore Similar Items) From Oppression to Assertion - Women and Panchayats in India by Nirmala Buch (ProductID: 30719 ~ ISBN: 9780415596312 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 208 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Routledge) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $39.95 USD Based on extensive field research with interviews of 1,200 panchayat representatives and community members in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh this book explores the experiences, impact and responses of women in village panchayats in India after a Constitutional Amendment in 1992 made it mandatory to reserve one-third positions for women.   (Explore Similar Items) Sensible Sensuality - A Collection of Essays by Sarojini Sahoo (ProductID: 29185 ~ ISBN: 9788172735418 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 194 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Authors Press) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $37.50 USD Redefining femininity with Eastern perspective, this study explores why sexuality plays a major role in our understanding of Eastern feminism. This book is rare of its kind and has covered the topics that have never been discussed so far in any Indian discourse. As an Indian feminist, many of Dr. Sahoo’s writings deal candidly with female sexuality, the emotional lives of women, and the intricate fabric of human relationships, depicting extensively about the interior experiences of women and how their burgeoning sexuality is seen as a threat to traditional patriarchal societies   (Explore Similar Items) Women and Child Trafficking in India - A Human right Perspective by Rekha Roy (ProductID: 29186 ~ ISBN: 9788183702379 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 262 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Akansha Publishing House) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $47.50 USD Trafficking in women and children is the most abominable violation of human rights. Women and children were becoming vulnerable to trafficking as they were unable to survive with dignity because of lack of livelihood options. This book gives a vivid accounts of women and child trafficking in India with a human right perspective.   (Explore Similar Items) Exploring Women Across the World by Sumanlata (ProductID: 29190 ~ ISBN: 9788183702362 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 283 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Akansha Publishing House) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $75.00 USD The present Endeavour is to portray the real picture of women across the world. Various issues like their role, status and problem of discrimination are elaborately dealt with taking instances from different countries-horizontally and vertically-of the globe.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Essays on Contemporary Gender Issues by S P Pani ,  Niranjan Pani (ProductID: 29191 ~ ISBN: 9788191014105 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 310 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Akansha Publishing House) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $69.95 USD The book Essays on Contemporary Gender Issues focuses on varied aspects of gender studies. Sixteen articles, contributed by Scholars of repute on diverse aspects of gender studies, make core of the work. Also it tries to explore gender aspects in languages, videos and advertisements.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Women of the Tagore Household by Chitra Deb (ProductID: 29213 ~ ISBN: 9780143066057 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 640 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Penguin) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $44.95 USD This book reveals hitherto unknown aspects of women’s emancipation in Bengal in which the women of the Jarasanko Tagore family were at the forefront-Chandramukhi and Kadambini were the first two female graduates of India. The Tagore family has long been the focus of public curiosity. Like its men, the women of this illustrious family have had a great and enduring influence on the life and people of Bengal.   (Explore Similar Items) Sex in Cinema - A History of Female Sexuality in Indian Films by Fareed Kazmi (ProductID: 29428 ~ ISBN: 9788129116215 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 376 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: Rupa) Usually Ships in 1 to 2 Business Days          Our Price: $34.95 USD This book is a brave forthright and well-researched book that analyses, and puts into perspective, the portrayal of women in Hindi films. It is an objective representation of women on celluloid through the generations. The book takes up Indian cinema, decade after decade and proceeds to delineate the portrayal of the Indian woman in cinema, and redefines the way many canonical films have been viewed, thought of and enjoyed.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Wanted Cultured Ladies Only ! - Female Stardom and Cinema in India by Neepa Majumdar (ProductID: 28461 ~ ISBN: 9780198066439 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 258 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Oxford University Press) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $65.00 USD This work maps out the early culture of stardom in Indian cinema from its emergence in the silent era to the decade after Indian independence in the mid-twentieth century. Beginning with a history of the idea of stardom in India, Majumdar considers questions of spectatorship, gossip, and popularity as they pertain to popular stars   (Explore Similar Items) Vermillion Clouds - A Century of Women’s Stories from Bengal by Radha Chakravarty (ProductID: 28640 ~ ISBN: 9788188965519 ~ Pub Year: 2010 ~ Pages: 231 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Kali/Women Unlimited) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $29.50 USD An astonishing variety of themes are present in this anthology as it grapples with, among other things, same-sex love, business entrepreneurship, love outside marriage, and the death of parents.   (Explore Similar Items) Yoga - Physical Education for Women by Sitadevi Yogendra (ProductID: 28680 ~ ISBN: 8185053103 ~ Pub Year: 2008 ~ Pages: 194 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Paperback ~ Publisher: The Yoga Institute) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $13.75 USD All yoga practises do not apply with equal benefit to women. Scientific researches conducted at the Yoga Institute reveal how some of the yoga processes may prove harmful to a beginner from amongst the fair sex. This is the first and only scientific text especially written for women by a women, to guide the gentle sex in their study of Yoga.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Rebels, Wives, Saints - Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times by Tanika Sarkar (ProductID: 28721 ~ ISBN: 9788178242477 ~ Pub Year: 2009 ~ Pages: 347 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Permanent Black) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $54.50 USD Tanika Sarkar’s writings on women, religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking. In this book, she again deploys to great effect her trademark focus on the small, the specific, and the emotive defining moment in history to arrive at larger, compelling pictures which show us how people actually felt and experienced life in that period.   (Read Table of Contents)   (Explore Similar Items) Kashmir - The History & Pandit Women's Struggle for Identity by Suneethi Bakhshi (ProductID: 27279 ~ ISBN: 9788189766696 ~ Pub Year: 2009 ~ Pages: 362 ~ Language: English ~ Binding: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Vitasta) Usually Delivers in 10 - 15 Business Days           Our Price: $49.95 USD This volume attempts to trace the history of the Kashmiri Pandit community from their claimed origins in the region of the Caspian Sea through the millennia to the present times. It is unique as it brings a perspective about the women of the community which has witnessed the worst of exoduses   (Explore Similar Items) Top Sellers Behind Closed Doors - Domestic Violence in India by Rinki Bhattacharya Woman, War and Peace in South Asia - Beyond Victimhood to Agency by Rita Manchanda What is Patriarchy? Gender Basics by Kamla Bhasin There Comes Papa - Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala, Malabar by G Arunima Single in the City - The independent woman's handbook by Sunny Singh Roles and Rituals of Hindu Women by Julia Leslie It's a Mom ! What You Should Know about the Early Years of Motherhood by Shefali Tsabary Next Items >>

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