Gender, Identity and Marginalization – Cross-Border Research: An Interview with Nida Kirmani
Nida Kirmani is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences…
No Nation for Women: Reportage on Rape from India, the World’s Largest Democracy by Priyanka Dubey (2018): A Review by Srilagna Majumdar
Feminism begins with a basic recognition and a simple question. The recognition is that women have adhered to a class…
Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx edited by Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (2023): A Review by Taanya Kapoor
There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to…
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (2022): A Review by Jagadhatri Singh
Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak by Madhumita Dutta (published by Zubaan in 2022) presents an unfiltered dialogue, among a…
Social Policy for Women in Pakistan by Sara Rizvi Jafree (2023): A Review by Adhvaidha Kalidasan
Sara Rizvi Jafree’s seminal work Social Policy for Women in Pakistan (published by Springer in 2023) is a remarkable and…
Hidden Struggles: Unveilling the Gendered Challenges Of Women Tea Workers – Vaishali Saikia
Introduction The tea industry is the largest organized sector which employs millions of labourers – both permanent and temporary, most…
Channar Revolt and the Contemporary Indian Context: Caste, Community and the Muslim Woman – Tahseen Fatima
The Channar Revolt that took place in the 19th century in the erstwhile princely state of Travancore reverberates even today.…
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici (2004): A Review by Anjali Chauhan
Histories have not only been simply histories but gendered histories, where women, as both subject-object of studies and writer-reader of…
Women in the Field: Gendered Challenges and Dilemmas of Ethnographic Fieldwork – Ruchika Ranwa
Fieldwork, as a static process, has been questioned in the existing debates on ethnography. Field is often changing, unpredictable and…
‘Normal’ Women in Cinema – Ashlesha Joshi
The world of cinema, like any other, has found itself faced with increased scrutiny in recent times (and rightly so)…