Indian Journal of Gender Studies

1994 - 2025

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Volume 10, issue 3, 2003

His Rights/Her Duties: Citizen and Mother in the Civics Discourse pp. 379-404

Rubina Saigol

Gender Bias in Resource Allocation in India: Where do Household Models and Empirical Evidence Intersect? pp. 405-429

Sunny Jose

Practising Rakshabandhan: Brothers in Ranchi, Jharkhand pp. 431-455

Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff

Women's Decision to Undergo Abortion: A Study Based on Delhi Clinics pp. 457-473

Sunanda Rabindranathan

Book Reviews: Anshu Malhotra, Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002. 232 pages. Rs. 545 pp. 477-481

Ratna Raman

Book Reviews: Marilyn J. Davidson and Ronald J. Burke (eds.), Women in Man agement: Current Research Issues (Vol. 2). London: Sage Publi cations. 2000. 309 pages. £17.99 pp. 481-484

Gurpreet Bal

Book Reviews: Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen M. Erndl (eds.), Is the Goddess a Feminist? The Politics of South Asian Goddesses. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002. 288 pages. Rs. 595 pp. 484-487

Udayan Mukherjee

Book Reviews: Neloufer de Mel, Women and the Nation's Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. New Delhi: Kali for Women. 2001. 296 pages. Rs. 250 pp. 487-493

Sachidananda Mohanty

Book Reviews: Jasbir Jain, Writing Women Across Cultures. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications. 2002. 316 pages. Rs. 650 pp. 493-498

Mrinalini Sebastian

Book Reviews: Monamayee Basu, Hindu Women and Marriage Law: From Sacrament to Contract. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2001.180 pages. Rs. 445 pp. 498-501

Shalu Nigam

Book Reviews: Partha Nath Mukherji (ed.), Methodology in Social Research: Dilem mas and Perspectives. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2000. 264 pages. Rs. 225 pp. 501-504

Vasudeva Rao

Book Reviews: Rian Voet, Feminism and Citizenship. London: Sage Publications. 1998. 182 pages. £40 (hb), £13.99 (pb) pp. 504-512

Arpita Anant

Book Reviews: Smita Tiwari Jassal, Daughters of the Earth: Women and Land in Uttar Pradesh. New Delhi: Manohar. 2001. 198 pages. Rs. 400 pp. 512-515

Meena Bhargava

Print pp. 517-524

Anju Vyas

Volume 10, issue 2, 2003

A 19th-century Woman Poet of Punjab: Peero pp. 183-200

Gurpreet Bal

Beyond Kulina and Kulata: The Critique of Gender Difference in the Writings of K. Saraswati Amma pp. 201-228

J. Devika

Of Dais and Midwives: 'Middle-class' Interventions in the Management of Women's Reproductive Health—A Study from Colonial Punjab pp. 229-259

Anshu Malhotra

Women's Livelihood in Fisheries in Coastal Karnataka, India pp. 261-278

Ramachandra Bhatta and K. Aruna Rao

Patrifocal Concerns in the Lives of Women in Academic Science: Continuity of Tradition and Emerging Challenges pp. 279-305

Namrata Gupta and A.K. Sharma

The Expanding Dimensions of Dowry pp. 307-319

Indu Agnihotri

K. Saradamoni, Matriliny Transformed: Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore. New Delhi: Sage Publications India, and AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek. 1999. 180 pages. Rs. 325 pp. 323-334

Leela Dube

Charu Gupta, Sexuality, Obscenity and Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India. New Delhi: Permanent Black. 2000. 388 pages. Rs. 650 pp. 334-336

Smita Tewari Jassal

John G. Sommer, Empowering the Oppressed: Grassroots Advocacy Movements in India. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2001. 207 pages. Rs. 225 pp. 336-341

H.C. Arora

Nandini Bhattacharya, Reading the Splendid Body: Gender and Con sumerism in Eighteenth Century British Writing on India. Newark: University of Delaware Press. 1998. 232 pages. £32. Ruth Vanita (ed.), Queering India: Same-sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society. Routledge: London and New York. 252 pages pp. 341-350

Mala Pandurang

Kumkum Sangari, Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narrative, Colonial English. New Delhi: Tulika. 1999. 503 pages. Rs. 650 (hb) pp. 350-355

Indrani Sen

Swama Jayaweera (ed.), Women in Post-independence Sri Lanka. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2002. 371 pages. Rs. 350 pp. 355-359

Padma Ramachandran

Sita Ranchod-Nilsson and Mary Ann Tetreault (eds.), Women, States and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? London and New York: Routledge. 2002. 246 pages. Rs. 1,182 pp. 360-366

Paula Banerjee

Aparna Rayaprol, Negotiating Identities: Women in the Indian Dias pora. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1997. 165 pages. Rs. 375 (hb) pp. 366-371

S. Srinivasa Rao

Print pp. 373-377

Anju Vyas

Volume 10, issue 1, 2003

Editorial pp. i-i

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Poor Women as Economic Agents: The Neo-Liberal State and Gender in India and the US pp. 1-24

A.R. Vasavi and Catherine P. Kingfisher

Articulation of an Integrated Women's Health Policy Using the Life Cycle Approach pp. 25-43

Anindita Datta

Gender and Reproductive Behaviour: The Role of Men pp. 45-76

Sabiha Hussain

Sculpting Population Policies: Some Issues pp. 77-116

Mohan Rao and Devaki Jain

Women's Reservations and Electoral Politics in Urban Local Bodies: An Analysis of Chennai Municipal Corporation Elections, 2001 pp. 117-141

Archana Ghosh

Print Resources pp. 143-150

Anju Vyas Librarian

Book Reviews: Vina Mazumdar and N. Krishnaji (eds.), Enduring Conundrum: India's Sex Ratio-Essays in Honour of Asok Mitra. Delhi: Rainbow Publishers. 2001. 207 pages. Rs. 325 pp. 153-158

Ashish Bose

Book Reviews: Indrani Sen, Woman and Empire: Representations in the Writings of British India (1858-1900). New Delhi: Orient Longman. 2002. 211 pages. Rs. 450 pp. 159-163

Anshu Malhotra

Book Reviews: Maina Chawla Singh, Gender, Religion, and 'Heathen Lands': American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860s-1940s). New York and London: Garland Publishing. 2000. 393 pages. Rs.1,775 pp. 163-167

Ruth Compton Brouwer

Book Reviews: Rajul Sogani, The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2002. 265 pages. Rs 525 pp. 167-170

Jayati Gupta

Book Reviews: Prem Chowdhury, The Veiled Woman: Shifting Gender Relations in Rural Haryana 1880-1990 New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1994. 461 pages. Rs. 475 pp. 170-172

Indu Agnihotri

Book Reviews: Alice Thorner and Maithreyi Krishnaraj (eds.), Ideals, Images and Real Lives: Women in Literature and History (Published for Sameeksha Trust). New Delhi: Sangam Books Limited. 2000. 353 pages. Rs. 350 pp. 172-176

Padma Ramachandran

Book Reviews: Ian Christopher Fletcher, Laura E. Nym Mayhall and Philippa Levine (eds.), Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation, and Race. London and New York: Routledge. 2000. 252 pages pp. 176-179

Sangeeta Das Gupta

Book Reviews: Manikuntala Sen, In Search of Freedom: An Unfinished Journey (Translated from the Bengali). Calcutta: Stree. 2001. 310 pages. Rs. 450 pp. 179-182

Uma Das Gupta

Volume 9, issue 2, 2002

Gender, Forests and Famine in 19th-Century Chotanagpur, India pp. 133-163

Vinita Damodaran

Gendering Resistance, Domesticating Violence in Korean Prison Literature pp. 165-181

You-Me Park

The Primacy of Gender in STD and HIV Prevention Programmes pp. 183-202

Jos Chathukulam and M.S. John

Introduction to a Round-Table Discussion pp. 203-207

Mary E. John

Women's Studies and Higher Education: The Troubled Journey pp. 209-219

Kumud Sharma

Constituting a Field pp. 221-234

Rekha Pappu

Women's Studies in the University pp. 235-243

Vidyut Bhagwat

Learning through Teaching the 'Sociology of Gender' pp. 245-261

Maitrayee Chaudhuri

Women's Empowerment through Self-help Groups pp. 263-274

K.N. Vijayanthi

Book Reviews: Anjali Capila, Images of Women in the Folk Songs of Garhwal Himalayas. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company. 2002. 370 pages. Rs. 550 pp. 277-279

Maina Chawla Singh

Book Reviews: Caroline Sweetman (ed.), Women, Land and Agriculture: Oxfam Focus on Gender. Oxford: Oxfam Publishing. 1999. 92 pages pp. 279-282

Sayantani Jafa

Book Reviews: Chitrita Banerji, The Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal. Kolkata: Seagull Publications. 2001. 120 pages. Rs. 495 pp. 282-285

Ishani Majumdar

Book Reviews: Leela Dube, Anthropological Explorations in Gender: Intersecting Fields. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2001. 268 pages. Rs. 425 pp. 285-290

Nandini Manjrekar

Book Reviews: Fenella Porter, Ines Smyth and Caroline Sweetman (eds.), Gender Works: Oxfam Experience in Policy and Practice. Oxford: Oxfam Publication. 1999. 346 pages. Candida March, Ines Smyth and Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, A Guide to Gender Analysis Frameworks. Oxford: Oxfam Publication. 1999. 144 pages. Chris Beasley, What is Feminism? An Introduction to Feminist Theory. London: Sage Publications. 1999. 171 pages. £13.99 (Pb). Jacqueline DeLaat, Gender in the Workplace: A Case Study Approach. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1999. 102 pages. $19.95 (Pb) pp. 290-294

Sumi Krishna

Book Reviews: Parama Roy, Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Post-colonial India. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. 1999 (originally published by the University of California Press, 1998). 236 pages. Rs. 225 (Pb) pp. 294-298

Indrani Sen

Book Reviews: Prem Chowdhry, Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2000. 294 pages. $29.95 (Pb), $74.95 (Hb) pp. 298-300

Kaushik Bhaumik

Book Reviews: Peter Custers, Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies. New Delhi: Vistaar Publications. 1997. 401 pages. Rs. 430 pp. 300-302

Preet Rustagi

Volume 9, issue 1, 2002

Ideologies of Gender on Television in India pp. 1-26

Divya C. Mcmillin

Gender, Class, Caste and Participation pp. 27-41

Anupama Lama and Marlène Buchy

Mahila Sanghas as Feminist Groups pp. 43-60

Jo-Anne Everingham

Promoting Girls' Schooling in Orissa pp. 61-79

Jyotirmayee Kar and Jyotsnamayee Kar

Between Identities pp. 81-87

Sayantani Jafa

Some Reflections on Child Labour in Jodhpur District pp. 89-99

Rekha Wazir

Book Reviews: Naresh K. Jain (ed.), Women in Indo-Anglian Fiction and Modernity. New Delhi: Manohar. 1998. 226 pages. Rs. 450. Kamal Desai, The Dark Sun and The Woman Who Wore a Hat (Sukhmani Roy, trans.). Calcutta: Stree. 1.999. 166 pages. Rs. 140 pp. 103-108

Anjum Hasan

Book Reviews: Kristen A. Myers, Cynthia D. Anderson and Barbara J. Risman (eds.), Feminist Foundations: Towards Transforming Sociology. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1998. 439 pages. $26.25. Liz Stanley (ed.), Knowing Feminisms. London: Sage Publications. 1997. 216 pages. £12.95 pp. 108-113

Shilpa Phadke

Book Reviews: Angela Pattatucci, Women in Science: Meeting Career Challenges. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1998. 304 pages. $24.50. Susan A. Ambrose, Kristin L. Dunkle, Barbara B. Lazarus, Indira Nair and Deborah A. Harkus (eds.), Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering: No Universal Constants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1997. 512 pages. $59.95 pp. 114-116

Neelam Kumar

Book Reviews: Raka Ray, Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India. New Delhi: Kali for Women. 1999. 217 + xiii pages. Rs. 250 pp. 116-119

S. Anandhi

Book Reviews: Ruth Wodak (ed.), Gender and Discourse. London: Sage Publications. 1997. 303 pages. £45.00 (hb), £15.99 (pb) pp. 119-122

D. Vasanta

Book Reviews: Mira Seth, Women & Development: The Indian Experience. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2001. 283 pages. Rs. 295 pp. 122-124

Hari Arora

Book Reviews: Fanny M. Cheung, Malavika Karlekar, Aurora De Dios, Juree Vichit-Vadakan and Lourdes R. Quisumbing (eds.), Breaking the Silence: Violence against Women in Asia. Hong Kong: Equal Opportunities Commission. 1999. 209 pages pp. 124-126

Margaret Abraham

Book Reviews: R. Emerson Dobash and Russell P. Dobash (eds.), Rethinking Violence against Women. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1998. 276 pages. $24.95. Jeffrey L. Edleson and Zvi C. Eisikovits (eds.), Future Interventions with Battered Women and their Families. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1996. 244 pages. $19.95. Sandy Cook and Judith Bessant (eds.), Women's Encounters with Violence. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1997. 268 pages. $22.95. Edward W. Gondolf, Assessing Woman Battering in Mental Health Services. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1998. 188 pages. $22.95. Jacquelyn C. Campbell (ed.), Empowering Survivors of Abuse. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. 1998. 332 pages. $25.95 pp. 126-127

Elizabeth Vatsyayan

Book Reviews: Fernando Franco, Jyotsna Macwan and Suguna Ramanathan (eds.), The Silken Swing: The Cultural Universe of Dalit Women. Calcutta: Stree. 2000. 330 pages. Rs. 450 (hb). Oliver Mendehlson and Marika Vicziany, The Untouchables: Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India. Cambridge University Press and Delhi Foundation Books. 2000. 290 pages. Rs. 650 pp. 128-131

Gopal Guru