On Women's Agency during Partition Urvashi Butalia For feminists, retrieving women's agency
Review of Women's Studies
Gender-Education Linkages among Punjabi Women in Delhi Karuna Chanana Family strategies are often responses to external changes and macro developments influence the options available. Partition...
Marty, Chen Jean Dreze The north Indian widow tends to be a highly marginalised person. She typically receives very little support from persons other than her children, and even when she lives with...
Debate on Proposed Christian Marriage and Matrimonial Causes Bill, 1990 Rita Monteiro One issue which stands in the way of a comprehensive family legislation for Indian Christians which reflects...
Structure/Space in the Sastric Tradition Kumkum Roy An exploration of the definitions of the royal household within the sastric tradition points to a situation where, in spite of attempts to...
Case of Sri Lanka under Colonial Rule Carla Risseeuw it is very much part of social science to analyse state formation, targe-scale economic change or the effects of colonial rule as if they are...
Insights from Kerala Experience Leela Gulati With the process of aging considerably more advanced in Kerala, it is there that the problems aging poses, including those linked specifically to the...
and Colonialism Case of Pandita Ramabai Meera Kosambi Pandita Ramabai's relationship with Christianity was a long and complex one influenced by many factors. On the one hand was dissillusionment...
Women's Property Rights in Tamil Society since Early Medieval Times Kanakalatha Mukund Contrary to the general notion that women had no property rights in Hindu society until the enactment of the...
Family Subsistence Maithreyi Krishnaraj Crafts production traditionally organised in family units bound makers and users in a complex mix of rights and obligations hallowed by custom. As the market...
and Enforcement Practices Jean D'Cunha Prostitution as an institution can only be understood by exploring the economic and ideological base on which it rests. In the last four decades not only has...
Review of a Decade of Legislation, 1980-89 Flavia Agnes Almost every single campaign against violence on women in the 1980s resulted in new legislations aimed at protecting women. However, these...
Representation of Women in Bhoomika and Mirch Masala Ranjani Mazumdar The post emergency period in India witnessed the production of a number of films dealing with women's issues particularly by...
Marathi Theatre, 1843 to 1933 Neera Adarkar The recorded history of Marathi theatre both marginalises and undervalues women's real contribution to theatre. However, there is extensive material to...
Women's Issues in English Language Newspapers Ammu Joseph Kalpana Sharma The increased attention to women and to women's issues in the media in the last decade has not been free of blatant sexism...
