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MAKING A DIFFERENCE:
MEMOIRS FROM THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN INDIA
Ritu Menon (Ed.)
Rs 350 Pb 2011
81-88965-67-7
(All rights available)
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The
autonomous women's movement is remarkable for
its energy and staying power, and for the impact
it has had on progressive social change in the country.
Twenty women who have made a critical contribution to
the women's, and the women's studies, movement recall
the last quarter century of activism, taking as its
starting point the impossibility of separating the
personal from the political, or the private from the
public, as each of the memoirs vividly illustrates.
They cover the most momentous and memorable developments
and campaigns of this period, recount the triumphs and
disappointments, reflect on alliances forged, on
relationships lost-and found.
Memoirists include: Indira Jaising, Vandana Shiva,
Kamla Bhasin, Bina Agarwal, Uma Chakravari, Vasanth Kannabiran,
Gabriele Dietrich, Pamela Philipose, Saheli, Norma Alvares,
Ruth Vanita, Devaki Jain, Nalini Nayak, Meera Velayudhan,
Roshmi Goswami, Nirmala Banerjee, Vibhuti Patel,
Ilina Sen, Sheba Chhachhi and Ritu Menon.
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RITU MENON
Menon is co-founder of Kali
for Women, India's oldest feminist press, and of Women Unlimited,
an associate of Kali for Women. She has written and published widely
on women, and is co-author of
Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition;
Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India;
Educating Muslim Girls: A Comparison of Five Indian
Cities with Zoya Hasan; and From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting
Violence Against Women in India
with Kalpana Kannabiran. Her edited books include,
Resisting Violence Against Women
in India with Kalpana Kannabiran. Her edited books include,
No Woman's Land: Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write
About the Partition of India; and In a Minority: Essays on
Muslim Women in India (with Zoya Hasan).
She was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011.
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