Renowned Goddess of Desire. Women, Sex, and Speech in Tantra.
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2007. viii + 300pp, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179296. More
India - Gender Issues
Hindu Women and the Power of Ideology.
Massachusetts. Bergin & Garvey Publishers. 1989. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 168pp, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index, covers fairly worn with lightly sunned spine, a sound secondhand hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179306. More
Women in Indian Society.
New Delhi. Sage Publications. 1988. 310pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket slightly worn with sunned spine, contents sound and clean, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178170. More
From the Margins of Hindu Marriage. Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture.
New York. Oxford University Press. 1995. Black and white illustrations, xii + 250, index, bibliography, glossary, a very good paperback copy. "Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus..... More
Sati, the Blessing and the Curse The Burning of Wives in India
United States: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994. Map, 214pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to..... More
Sati. The Blessing and the Curse. The Burning of Wives in India.
New York. Oxford University Press. 1994. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 214pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, a very good paperback copy. "To those who revere it, sati symbolizes ultimate loyalty and self-sacrifice. It often figures near the core of a Hindu identity that feels embattled in a...... More
Appropriating Gender. Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia.
New York. Routledge. 1998. xi + 276pp, index, bibliography, editor inscription half title page, a very good paperback copy. "Appropriating Gender is a comprehensive collection of essays that examines the roles of women in fundamentalist movements, as well as the gender policies of these movements and of the South Asian..... More
Intimate Relations. Exploring Indian Sexuality.
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1989. 161pp, notes, index, few neat pencilled notes in text, dustjacket little shelf worn and a little faded on spine, a sound secondhand hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179287. More
Siva and Her Sisters. Gender, Caste, & Class in Rural South India.
Boulder. Westview Press. 1995. Black and white photographic illustrations, xv + 269pp, bibliography, index, few neat pencilled notes throughout text, covers shelf worn and creased, a sound secondhand paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179316. More
Voices from Within. Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women.
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1993. Black and white photographic plates, xv + 227pp, bibliography, index, covers fairly shelf worn and creased, a sound secondhand paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179310. More
Fetal/Fatal Knowledge. New Reproductive Technologies and Family-Building Strategies in India.
Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Inc, 2010. 153pp, index, very good paperback copy. "In an intimate and revealing ethnographic study, Sunil K. Khanna, Ph.D., reflects on his role during fieldwork in India as a 'native' anthropologist, examines the historical and cultural underpinnings of son preference, and considers why this preference..... More
Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity. Essays on Education in India.
United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Black and white plans, viii + 345pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket edges slightly bent, pencil markings throughout text, prior owner's name front free endpapers, overall a very good copy. This volume deals with multiple sites of production of education including the homes and..... More
Invented Identities. The Interplay of Gender, Religion and Politics in India.
New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2000. xiii + 309pp, dustjacket spine sunned, otherwise a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179307. More
Liberalization's Children. Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India.
Durham. Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 284, index, bibliography, notes. Very good paperback copy. "Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between 'midnight's children', who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism..... More
Home Truths. Stories of Single Mothers.
New Delhi. Penguin. 2003. xii + 260pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. Stories of 17 Indian mothers, women who are rearing their children outside the structure of marriage, whether divorced, widowed, separted or unmarried. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179162... More
Sita's Daughters. Coming out of Purdah. The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited.
New York. Oxford University Press. 1993. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 371pp, indices, bibliography, glossaries, appendices. Spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178504. More
Playing With Fire. Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India.
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2006. xlvii + 181pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, a very good paperback copy. Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice..... More
Neither Man Nor Woman. The Hijras of India.
United States: Cengage Learning, Inc, 1998. Second edition. Map, colour photographic illustrations, xxi + 186pp, index, references, notes, glossary, lightly sunned spine, a very good paperback copy. This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It..... More
Neither Man Nor Woman. The Hijras of India.
Belmont. Wadsworth. (circa 2000). Reprint of Second Edition. Map, colour photographic illustrations, xxi + 186pp, index, references, notes, glossary, lightly worn paperback, good copy. This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how..... More
A Comparison Between Woman and Men. Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India.
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1994. 147pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, dustjacket little creased and trifle sunned spine, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178086. More
Those Who Did Not Die. Impact of the Agrarian Crisis on Women in Punjab
New Delhi. SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2012. Map, xxxi + 182pp, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Even as they produce food for society and its people, lives dependent on agriculture are barely able to make ends meet. The cost of food production far outweighs the..... More
Separate Worlds. Studies of Purdah in South Asia.
Columbia. South Asia Books. 1982. Black and white photographic plates, xiv + 317pp, index, prior owner's inscription front free endpaper, dustjacket little shelf worn, spine trifle sunned, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179291. More
Gender and Story in South India.
Albany. State University of New York Press. 2006. Map, 151pp, index, boards a little faded in places, good hardback copy. Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
Listen to the Heron's Words. Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India.
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1994. Reprint. Map, black and white photographic plates, xxxvii + 234pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, spine little sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179224. More
Real and Imagined Women. Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism.
United Kingdom. Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1993. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 153pp, index, paperback, a good copy. An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of 'reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the 'third world woman' as victim..... More