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Disparate women : transitory contexts, persisting structures / Kumkum Sangari and Uma Chakravarti -- Decentering a patriarchal myth : Bhisham Sahni's Madhavi / Pankaj K. Singh and Jaidev -- King's household : structure and space in the Śāstric tradition / Kumkum Roy -- Women and the 'domestic' in Tamil folk songs / Vijaya Ramaswamy -- Divine family and world maintenance : Gaṇeśa in the Bengal Puranas / Kunal Chakrabarti -- Book of her own, a life of her own : autobiography of a nineteenth-century women / Tanika Sarkar -- Realities and reflections : personal narratives of two women from nineteenth-century Maharashtra / Meera Kosambi -- Women's education in the Madras presidency : issues of class and patriarchy / Padmini Swaminathan -- Gender and the logic of Brahminism : Periyar and the politics of the female body / V. Geetha -- Transitory residents, invisible workers : rethinking locality and incorporation in a Rajasthan village / Rajni Palriwala -- Ideology, culture and hierarchy : expenditure-consumption patterns in rural households / Prem Chowdhry -- Gender in neo-classical economics : a conceptual overview / Ritu Dewan -- Analysing women's work under patriarchy / Nirmala Banerjee -- Patriarchy and state systems in North-East India : a historical and critical perspective / Aparna Mahanta -- Women's empowerment : paradigms and paradoxes / Jasodhara Bagchi -- Interrogating psychology : some feminist issues and implications / U. Vindhya. |
