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Book review: Vibhuti Patel and Nandita Mondal (Eds.), Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Ishan Anand
Vibhuti Patel and Nandita Mondal (Eds.), Gendered Inequalities in Paid and Unpaid Work of Women in India. Springer Nature, 2022, 277 pp., ₹10,858, ISBN 978-9811699733 (Hardcover).
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Book review: Ruth Vanita, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Kumkum Roy
Ruth Vanita, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species. Oxford University Press, 2022, 287 pages, ₹1,795. ISBN:9780192859822 hardback.
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The Precariat in Our Lives: Women Domestic Workers Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Mohan Rao
Caring Hands, Fragile Health: Unravelling Women’s Occupational Health and Well-being in Domestic Work, Jagori, New Delhi, 2023.
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New Resources Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Madhu Shree, Akhlak Ahmad
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Book review: Norena Shopland, A History of Women in Mens’ Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Anuja Jose
Norena Shopland, A History of Women in Mens’ Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment. Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2021, 344 pages, ₹1,679
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Social Implications of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) on Women in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Papia Raj, Puja Krishna
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is a technological innovation enabling infertile women to conceive through medical procedures. However, social inferences of IVF need to be contextualised within gender dynamics, especially in India. Though several studies have examined specific social aspects of IVF none have delineated the combination of determinants as well as implications of IVF for women. The present
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Book review: Trina Nileena Banerjee, Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Jhuma Basak
Trina Nileena Banerjee, Performing Silence: Women in the Group Theatre Movement in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2021), 354 pp., ₹1795 (Hardbound). ISBN 978-0-19-012770-1.
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Constructing Adolescent Sexuality Through Schooling: Analysis on Gender Socialisation in All-girls Schools at the Secondary Level in Kerala Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Sathya Narendran
This article seeks to understand the processes of gender socialisation in schools. The article endeavours to analyse the construction of normative femininity in the strict contours of schooling and to capture the response of students to it. The context of this article is the critique of the celebrated Kerala development model, suggesting that a better status for women continues to be a challenging
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The Impact of COVID on Kerala Fish-vending Women Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Johnson Jament, Caroline Osella
This article discusses women’s role in Kerala’s small-scale marine fishing industry and changes that took place during COVID-19. Pandemic conditions enabled and accelerated the restructuring of Kerala’s fishing industry practices, leaving marginal groups even more marginal. Small-scale producers and sellers were edged out by larger players in a new wholesale market. Meanwhile, female vendors who utilised
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An Autoethnographic Reflection of COVID-19 and/as Biographical Disruption Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Anita Ghai, Suchaita Tenneti
The COVID-19 pandemic and concomitant measures to mitigate it have exacerbated pre-existing social inequalities and have proven to be major disruptive phenomena at both individual and community levels. People with disabilities and chronic illnesses have been some of the most drastically impacted social groups during the pandemic whose isolation and vulnerabilities have often been compounded in the
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Book review: Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.), Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Deepa S. Reddy
Amrita Basu and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.), Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism. Cambridge University Press, 2022, 360 pages (Hardbound). ISBN 978-1009123143.
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New Resources Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Madhu Shree, Akhlak Ahmad
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Book review: Nazia Akhtar, Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Shefali Jha
Nazia Akhtar, Bibi’s Room: Hyderabadi Women and Twentieth-Century Urdu Prose. Orient Blackswan & The New India Foundation, 2022, 432 pages, ₹995. ISBN: 978-9354420641.
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Book review: Fearless Freedom Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Indu Agnihotri
Kavita Krishnan, Fearless Freedom. Penguin, 2020, 264 pages (e-book).ISBN 978-0143444688.
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Book review: Jayati Ghosh, The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Padmini Swaminathan
Jayati Ghosh, The Making of a Catastrophe: The Disastrous Economic Fallout of the Covid-19 Pandemic in India. Aleph Book Company, 2022, 271 pages, ₹799 (Hardbound). ISBN 978-93-90652-96-9.
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Book review: Pamela Philipose, A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic’s Shadow Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Rinju Rasaily
Pamela Philipose, A Boundless Fear Gripped Me: How the Other Half Lived in the Pandemic’s Shadow. Yoda Press, 2023, 109 pages, ₹258 (Paperback). ISBN 978-9-38-257988-5.
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Gender During the Pandemic: Issues at Stake Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 A. Suneetha
COVID pandemic exacerbated existing inequalities as well as those between researchers and the researched. This experiential note discusses the ethical dilemmas and practical difficulties that I as a feminist researcher and activist have encountered between 2020 and 2022. This was while in the process of my research as well as engagement with COVID-19-related advocacy work. I argue that, even as one
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Hindu-Right Activism in Pandemic: Exploring the Role of Durga Vahini in Covid-19 Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Manisha Chachra
Women’s activism in the Hindu right has gone through communication and mobilisation shifts in the context of Covid-19. The article traces how the hierarchy and coordination within the Durga Vahini—...
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Women and Resistance in the Conflict-Affected Bodoland Territorial Council Region of Assam Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Amrita Saikia
The Bodoland territorial council (BTC) region of Assam has witnessed many conflicts in the past. The women of the conflicting communities, Bodo, Bengali-speaking Muslims, and Adivasi, have largely ...
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COVID-19 and Its Impact on Diverse Aspects of Women’s Lives Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Alfred J. Lawrence, Umama Fatima, Faiza Ali, Ancey Abraham, Saima Arif, Tahmeena Khan
The objective of this article is to study the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of women by exploring different aspects like their daily work patterns, hygiene practices, psychological effects and nu...
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The ‘Housewife’ on an Education Mission: An Ethnographic Portrait Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Hem Borker
The article employs the ethnographic portrait of the founder and co-owner of a chain of girls’ madrasas in a Muslim-dominated mofussil town in Uttar Pradesh to illuminate the current moment at whic...
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Disempowering Women and Constructing Muslims as ‘Other’: A Study of India’s Anti-Conversion Legislations Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Mohammad Jamshed, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, Sameena Banu
As a constitutional democracy, India remains committed to the cherished values of individual liberty and freedom of conscience which form the core of the fundamental rights enshrined in our constit...
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Falling Between the Cracks: Women’s Work and the Periodic Labour Force Survey Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Jyoti Thakur
This article reflects upon the changes introduced in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and their impact on the visibility of women’s work in India. In 2017–2018, the National Sample Survey Or...
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Book review: Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan. Witch Hunts: Culture Patriarchy and Structural Transformation Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Smita Tewari Jassal
Govind Kelkar and Dev Nathan. Witch Hunts: Culture Patriarchy and Structural Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 272 pages, ₹699. ISBN 9781108490511 (Hardback).
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Book review: Kesav Desiraju, Gifted Voice the Life and Art of M. S. Subbulakshmi Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Lakshmi Subramanian
Kesav Desiraju, Gifted Voice the Life and Art of M. S. Subbulakshmi (Harper Collins, 2021), 499 pages, ₹699. ISBN 9789390327546 (Paperback).
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Book review: Mary E. John and Meena Gopal (Eds), Women in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Ritu Dewan
Mary E. John and Meena Gopal (Eds), Women in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives (Orient BlackSwan, 2021), 423 pages, ₹995, ISBN 9788194925897 (Paperback).
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Book review: Asha Hans, Amrita Patel, Bidyut Monhanty and Swarnamayee Tripathy, Women Reinventing Development: The Odisha Experience Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Sarada Prasanna Das
Asha Hans, Amrita Patel, Bidyut Monhanty and Swarnamayee Tripathy, Women Reinventing Development: The Odisha Experience (New Delhi: Aakar, 2020), 333 pp., ₹995, ISBN 978-93-5002-67-17 (Hardbound).
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The Letters of Sushila Gandhi: From Press Worker to Managing Trustee of Phoenix Settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977 Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
An epistolarium of over 80 letters written by a first-generation Gujarati migrant woman to South Africa provides the basis for the construction of her biography. The personal register of the letter...
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Book review: Muhammadi Begum, A Most Noble Life: The Biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum (1840–1903) Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Maroona Murmu
Muhammadi Begum, A Most Noble Life: The Biography of Ashrafunnisa Begum (1840–1903). C. M. Naim (Trans.) (Orient BlackSwan, 2022), 188 pages, ₹630 (Paperback). ISBN 9789354421150.
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Book review: Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Kumkum Roy
Sabita Singh, The Politics of Marriage in Medieval India: Gender and Alliance in Rajasthan (Oxford University Press, 2019), xxvii + 292 pages, ₹1195 (Hardback).
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Bodies That Cohere: Notes on Ganja and Gender in Colonial India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Utathya Chattopadhyaya
This essay explores what might result if histories of empire and colonialism took the material relationships of human and plant bodies as a fundamental framework. Gender both structured, and was re...
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Stranded: Indian Travelling Ayahs Negotiating Waiting and Repatriation Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Arunima Datta
The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both colonisers and colonised. This article focuses on the experiences of travelling ayahs (servants and nannies) who t...
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When Doors Are Opened Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Sharada Nayak
Exclusion of widows and discrimination. A village woman, unlettered and widowed, is employed to take care of three little girls. She argues that daughters and sons should have equity; that a daught...
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New Histories of Gender, Mobility and Labour: India and the Indian Diaspora Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Antoinette Burton
This essay introduces the themes of the special issue, with particular attention to the work of gender in restructuring social, economic and political histories.
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Introduction to the Book Forum on Ishita Pande’s Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Antoinette Burton
Introduction to the Book Forum on Ishita Pande’s Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937
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Women in Cantonments: Evolution of Regulated Military Prostitution in Colonial India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Sonia Mondal
From the mid-19th century the existence of a large number of native prostitutes in the British military cantonments confirmed the widespread prevalence of state-authorised prostitution in colonial ...
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Presence Without Empowerment?: Women in Rural Local Government in Bangladesh Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Nishat Afroze Ahmed, Md. Mohiuddin
This article explores the role of reserved-seat women members of the Union Parishad, the lowest unit of local government in Bangladesh. The number of women representatives has increased manifold ov...
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A Hauntology of Clandestine Transmissions: Spectres of Gender and Race in Electronic Music Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Chantelle Gray
Electronic music is often presented as originating with the Futurists, John Cage, Robert Moog, Kraftwerk and the Detroit techno scene, yet such descriptions elide the role of women in the history o...
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‘No Country for Old Women’: Female Aging in Bollywood Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Saurav Kumar
In 2013, Sharmila Tagore1 called Bollywood ‘[n]o country for old women’.1 Like all older women, aging female actors of Bollywood too have experienced what Susan Sontag calls ‘the double standard of...
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Locating Female Transgression against Heteronormative Society: A Comparative Study of Three African American Novels Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 U. H. Ruhina Jesmin
The study attempts to locate female transgressions against a racist and homophobic society as portrayed by Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor in their novels Loving Her (1974), The ...
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Book review: Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Padmini Swaminathan
Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020), 328 pp. ₹775 (Paperback), ISBN 9789390122073.
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Book review: Meera Kosambi, A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Veena Poonacha
Meera Kosambi, A Fragmented Feminism: The Life and Letters of Anandibai Joshee. Ram Ramasamy, Madhavi Kolhatkar and Aban Mukerjee (Eds.) (London/New York: Routledge, South Asia Edition, 2020), 249 pages, ₹995, (Hardback). ISBN 9780429266386.
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Book review: Nandini Manjrekar (Ed.) assisted by Simran Luthra, Gender and Education in India: A Reader Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Sujatha Devarapalli
Nandini Manjrekar (Ed.) assisted by Simran Luthra, Gender and Education in India: A Reader (New Delhi: Aakar Publications, 2020), 295 pages, ₹1,695 (Hardback). ISBN 978955002632
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Book review: Sadhna Arya, Gaining Ground: The Changing Contours of Feminist Organizing in Post-1990s India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Manashi Misra
Sadhna Arya, Gaining Ground: The Changing Contours of Feminist Organizing in Post-1990s India (Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2020), 265 pp. ₹650 (Paperback), ISBN 9789385606281.
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Book review: Tejaswini Niranjana, Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Lakshmi Subramanian
Tejaswini Niranjana, Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2020), 225 pages, ₹695 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-81-941260-7-2.
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Gendered Impacts of Increasing Land Sale in Western Maharashtra, India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-04-17 Girija Godbole
This article presents a nuanced understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of increasing land sale in Western India and its impacts on a rapidly changing social context. It focuses on perspectives of rural women who often lack a voice in matters related to land. The research was undertaken in Maval tehsil (administrative unit) of Pune district, Maharashtra, where the incidence of land sale has increased
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Emerging Concepts of Gender Equality and Inclusion: Integrate and Apply Now Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Nidhi Shukla,Saumya Singh
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Iron in the Soul: Two-Child Norm in Population Policies Again Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-04-02 Mohan Rao
In July 2021, Uttar Pradesh announced a population policy, Draft Uttar Pradesh Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare Bill, 2021, that was astoundingly thoughtless, even as it was demographically unnecessary. That Assam and Uttar Pradesh have joined the long list of dismal states that advocate a stringent two-child norm in population policy is only reflective of how unthinking and thoughtless
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Challenges Faced by Female Commercial Sex Workers in Puducherry, India: A Qualitative Inquiry Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 P. Swathisha, Sibnath Deb
Sex work is considered one of the oldest professions in the world. In India, selling sex in private is legal, while all other activities related to sex work, such as pimping, brothel-keeping, are considered to be illegal. Despite their vulnerability to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, the research has been less focused on the other challenges faced by sex workers. This article aims to
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The Legacy of the Life and Work of Lotika Sarkar Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 S. Muralidhar
Based on a talk by the author, the article seeks to sketch the work and contribution of Professor Lotika Sarkar, the first woman law teacher of the Delhi University. A much sought after teacher, with a progressive outlook, Professor Sarkar mentored several generations of law scholars, teachers and judges. The article speaks of Professor Sarkar’s seminal contribution as member of the Committee on the
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Technology, Gender and Fishing in an Odisha Village Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Sthitapragyan Ray, Sramana Mukherjee
The introduction of a new fishing technology in a small riverine village of Odisha resulted in paradoxical socio-economic outcomes. The fresh and flowing water pisciculture through the innovative Pen technology, which was based on an enclosure aquaculture system, bound from all sides by a close-knit row of multiple pens, improved productivity, income and employment levels of the fishing community.
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Narrating Legal Reform: The Open Letter and the Anti-rape Movement in Perspective Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Amartya Kanjilal
This article examines a foundational moment in the history of the women’s movement in India and its engagement with the law: the open letter to the Supreme Court written in 1979 by four scholars of the law—Upendra Baxi, Lotika Sarkar, Raghunath Kelkar and Vasudha Dhagamwar. As part of an effort to commemorate Lotika Sarkar’s work and legacy, this article looks at the letter as an event embedded in
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‘Voluntarily Childless’: An Auto-ethnographic Account of a Man’s Struggles in India Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Anindya Bahttacharyya
This article is an account of the struggles of a man in a patriarchal cultural context, where the idea of childfree men is despised and regularly confronted. Autoethnography is a method and a means to story-telling not only of the struggles that a man faces but also is a living document of the interactions, relationships, acquaintances and family regarding a choice over voluntary parenthood. The idea
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Book review: Saurabh Kirpal (Ed.), Sex and the Supreme Court: How the Law is Upholding the Dignity of the Indian Citizen Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Prashanto Chandra Sen
Saurabh Kirpal (Ed.), Sex and the Supreme Court: How the Law is Upholding the Dignity of the Indian Citizen. Hachette India, 2020, 346 pages, ₹533 (Paperback). ISBN: 9789389253009.
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Book review: L. Somi Roy, Maharaj Kumari Binodini, The Princess and the Political Agent Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Natasa Thoudam
L. Somi Roy, Maharaj Kumari Binodini, The Princess and the Political Agent (translated from the Manipuri [Meiteilon]). Penguin Random House, 2020, e-book: Kindle edition, 255 pages, ₹188.33. e-ISBN: 9789353058234.
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Book review: S. Irudaya Rajan and N. Neetha (Eds.), Migration, Gender and Care Economy Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Satyaki Roy
S. Irudaya Rajan and N. Neetha (Eds.), Migration, Gender and Care Economy. Routledge (South Asia Edition), 2019, 206 pages, ₹995 (Hardback). ISBN: 9780367247331.
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Book review: Gaby Zipfel et al. (Eds.), In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Rita Manchanda
Gaby Zipfel et al. (Eds.), In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. Zubaan Academic, 2019, 472 pages, ₹850/$35 (Hardback). ISBN: 97893 85932816.
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Book review: Neeladri Bhattacharya, Kunal Chakrabarti, S. Gunasekaran, Janaki Nair and Joy L. K. Pachuau (Eds.), JNU Stories: The First Fifty Years Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Mary E. John
Neeladri Bhattacharya, Kunal Chakrabarti, S. Gunasekaran, Janaki Nair and Joy L. K. Pachuau (Eds.), JNU Stories: The First Fifty Years. Aleph Books, 2020, 467 pages., ₹999 (Hardback). ISBN: 975-81-948741-9-5.
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Corrigendum Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2021-12-25
Dasthagir, K. G. (2021). Exclusion of Women Beneath Patriarchal Enclaves in Participatory Irrigation Management in South India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 28(3), 408–425. DOI: 10.1177/09715215211030409
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Judicial Approaches to the Criminalisation of Marital Rape Indian Journal of Gender Studies (IF 0.622) Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Vijay P Singh
In India, as in different traditional cultures, women have been and still are treated in a number of inhumane ways. They are controlled, prone to assault and abuse and risk rape not only outside but within their own homes. Moreover, marital rape is not considered a crime in India. The article attempts to analyse Indian rape laws and to show that exemption for marital rape does not align with the fundamental