This compilation of over 300 plants, and review of their medicinal value, has been put together by Shodhini, a network of women's health activists that seeks to address the health needs of the most disadvantaged women. Gynaecological complaints are common, but may remain neglected for most of a woman's life. The remedies in this book are the result of five years' experience in treating women across India, for everything from vaginal discharge and menstrual disorders to pregnancy and uterine complaints, and urinary tract infections.

Touch Me, Touch-Me-Not- Women, Plants and Healing

Shodhini

Medical Books

Zubaan Books

Atlas of Women and Men in India

TOWNSEND

Peter J. Atkins

Saraswati Raju

Naresh Kumar and Janet G. Townsend

Kumar-, Raju- Atkins

Reference

The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of women live, work and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home and social lives. Whether fighting for safe contraception, literacy, water and electricity or resisting sexual harassment, they are participating in vibrant and active women's movements that are thriving in many parts of India today. "Fields of Protest" explores the political and cultural circumstances under which groups of women organize to fight for their rights and self-worth. Starting with Bombay and Calcutta, Raka Ray discusses the creation of "political fields" - structured, unequal, and socially constructed political environments within which organizations exist, flourish or fail. Women's organizations are not autonomous or free agents; rather, they inherit a "field" and its accompanying social relations, and when they act, they act in response to it and within it. Drawing on the literature of both social movements and feminism, Ray analyses the striking differences between the movements in these two cities.

Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India

Raka Ray

Words, Language & Grammar

Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir

Politics & Social Sciences

Urvashi Butalia

Social Sciences

Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. This book shows that it is not ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women's decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs.

She Comes To Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety

SRIMATI BASU

Women's Studies

Democratization and Women's Grassroots Movements: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan

The essays in this volume consider the significance of nation and gender in the context of post 1989 transitions in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and in the context of post-partition India. The texts critique the way in which the narratives of nationhood and womanhood naturalize and essentialize difference and hierarchy. The authors explore uses of sexualized/gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space. This volume considers the significance of nation and gender in the context of post-1989 transitions in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and in the context of post-partition India. The texts critique the ways in which narratives of nationhood and womanhood naturalize and essentialize difference and hierarchy. The authors explore uses of sexualized/gendered imagery in defining the space of the nation and sexualized/gendered metaphors of state fatherhood and motherhood in defining the distribution of power within that space.

From Gender to Nation

Julie Mostov

Rada Ivekovic

Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing contemporary feminism. Forging vital links between daily life and collective action and between theory and pedagogy, Mohanty has been at the vanguard of Third World and international feminist thought and activism for nearly two decades. This collection highlights the concerns running throughout her pioneering work: the politics of difference and solidarity, decolonizing and democratizing feminist practice, the crossing of borders, and the relation of feminist knowledge and scholarship to organizing and social movements. Mohanty offers here a sustained critique of globalization and urges a reorientation of transnational feminist practice toward anticapitalist struggles.Feminism without Borders opens with Mohanty's influential critique of western feminism ("Under Western Eyes") and closes with a reconsideration of that piece based on her latest thinking regarding the ways that gender matters in the racial, class, and national formations of globalization. In between these essays, Mohanty meditates on the lives of women workers at different ends of the global assembly line (in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States); feminist writing on experience, identity, and community; dominant conceptions of multiculturalism and citizenship; and the corporatization of the North American academy. She considers the evolution of interdisciplinary programs like Women's Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies; pedagogies of accommodation and dissent; and transnational women's movements for grassroots ecological solutions and consumer, health, and reproductive rights. Mohanty's probing and provocative analyses of key concepts in feminist thought—"home," "sisterhood," "experience," "community"—lead the way toward a feminism without borders, a feminism fully engaged with the realities of a transnational world.

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory Practicing Solidarity

Chandra Tal Mohanty

The last decade saw the emergence andassertion of separate Dalitbahajun women's organizations both at the nationaland regional levels. This assertion against their exclusion from political andcultural spheres sought to transform Dalit and feminist politics in India. Inthe same decade, anti-Madal protests saw upper caste youth mourning the 'deathof merit' and publicly endorsing endogamy. The reproduction of caste in modernspaces like universities, bureaucracies and women's movements and studies wasthus apparent. The assumptions about caste identities being private and personalwere called into question and serious challenges posed for understanding casteand gender in contemporary India. Located within this context, Women Writing Castebrings together extracts from KumudPawade's Anta Sphot (Thoughtful Outburst), Babytai Kamble's Jeene Amuche (Ourlives), Shantabai Kamble's Mazhya Jalmachi Chitarkatha, (The Picturesque Storyof My Life), Mukta Sarvagod's Mitleli Kawade (Closed Doors), Shantabai Dan'sRatraandin Amba (For Us...these Days and Nights), Vimal More's Teen DagadanchiChul (The Hearth of Three Stones) and Janabai Girhe's Marankala (Deadly Pains).

Writing Caste, Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios.

History

Sharmila Rege

Asia

Feminist Post-Development Thought addresses the crucial question of what development means for women. Is it still their best hope of social progress and equality, or does it simply raise false expectations for the future? In this groundbreaking collection with its diverse perspectives, feminist thinkers explore whether Third World women ought to continue along the path of development or abandon full-scale modernization and seek post-development alternatives instead. It represents the first attempt to ascertain the possibilities, and limitations, of the post-development path for women.

Feminist Post-Development Thought: Rethinking Modernity, Post-Colonialism and Representation

Business & Money

Kriemild Saunders

Economics

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