19th Century Gujarati Women's Journals Sonal Shukla Social reformers and cultural revivalists in the 19th century and nationalists in the early decades of this century published journals for women...
Review of Women's Studies
Educational Proposals for and by Women in Popular Magazines in Colonial Bengal Himani Bannerji Controversies raging around women's education and the 'educated woman'or 'bhadramahila' in Bengal in...
Emergence of Pictorial Stereotype in Colonial India Tapati Guha Thakurta This paper attempts to trace the genealogy of the kind of feminine images that have become the stock-type for today's '...
Feminisms and 'Women's Magazines' P Sita Chanda While appropriating certain aspects of the women's movement's agenda and constructing a new sign system revolving around the subject position of '...
Women in Popular Tamil Magazines Gita Wolf Narratives are constructions of reality using available cultural and social material, but ordering and presenting versions of this material in accordance...
of Consumption Tejaswini Niranjana The aggressive neo-nationalism of our times produces and sanctions a new femininity which is targeted by a national market rather than merely regional ones. The...
Widow Immolation in Contemporary Rajasthan Sudesh Vaid Kumkum Sangari It is time to move away from the popular paradigm of the wickednesses of widow immolation and the innocence of 'blind faith' and...
Maya Unnithan-Kumar The paper uses both contemporary and historical material on the Girasia 'tribals' of Sirohi in south Rajasthan, i) to understand the disjunction between the insider and outsider...
Charu Gupta With the rise of National Socialism, in whose ideology the degradation and depersonalization of women was implicit, the process of women's emancipation in Germany suffered a setback. In...
in Twentieth Century Banaras Nita Kumar In the first half of this century, some one dozen women in Banaras played key rotes in channelling the educational movement into new directions, expanding its...
Bilateral Development Project A Small-Scale Irrigation Project in North Bengal Loes Schenk-Sandbergen It is generally accepted, at least in women's studies circles, that empowerment of women can...
behind Gulf War DN THE Gulf war witnessed an impressive line-up of all the major powers, including the imperialist powers, on the same side. Some provided the armed forces, some others promised...
in Television Serials Prabha Krishnan The televised version of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata contain overt and subliminal messages which need to be read in the context of the all-pervasive...
Motherhood in Colonial Bengal Jasodhara Bagchi The burgeoning nationalism in colonial Bengal of the last quarter of the nineteenth century caught hold of the image of the mother to represent the...
in Indian Writing in English Sangeeta Dutta This article analyses a select group of novels written by Indian authors in English which deal primarily with the woman's role as mother, the operating...
