Shanta Gokhale Sane Guruji's Shyamchi Ai (Shyam's Mother) must be assumed to have greatly influenced middle class attitudes towards motherhood judging by the fact that in the period between its...
Review of Women's Studies
Frederick F Clairmonte There is no need for the sanctification of Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden thereby elevating them into profoundly mystical events. Rather, they were the syntheses of a...
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...
Calendar Art Patricia Uberoi Women have been and still are excluded from the production of and representation in many social and cultural activities, but even when they are included they do not...
Medical practice does not find women's diseases exciting—but if in addition women's illnesses fail to fit into given categories and expectations, then the illness is delegitimised. Backpain is one...
A Little Affair of the Women Tang Min Translated and with notes by David Kellogg Fear of pregnancy has become the greatest burden of a woman's emotional life. Married and unmarried women alike live...
Ariel Salleh Green is the buzz word in Australia right now. And green politics of various shades has influenced voters' choice in the recently held federal elections.
Mother-Daughter Communication Marline Van Woerkens Puberty is a social and ritual event, a rite of passage which marks the entry into a new state foreshadowing the prestigious condition of maternity...
Extending Limits to Physical Expression Padma Prakash Every woman athlete today is making a statement against the generations of social discriminations and challenges afresh the myths of women fs...
societies we are familiar with these. We live in limited spaces whether these are physical ones
This paper examines the roles and needs of two classes of women, landless wage labour and landpoor cultivators, within the context of six agro-ecologic zones in India. The analysis by agro-ecologic...
Women in poor rural households are burdened with a significant responsibility for family subsistence and are important, often the primary, and in many female-headed households the sole economic...
Governments of famine-prone countries employ certain socio-economic indicators, with the household as the unit of enumeration, in order to monitor famines with a view to alleviating their impact...
