Indian Journal of Gender Studies

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 263-275, October 2025.

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 433-458, October 2025. Kanthaprovide a rich material archive to probe women’s engagement with contemporary social, political, economic and religious concerns during the tumultuous decades of th…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 459-481, October 2025. In this article, I examine the role of the photograph in the life of the well-known painter, Amrita Sher-Gil. As, from an early age, she was the photographer’s willing mu…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 384-406, October 2025. Thehijrasare a hypervisible gender-transgressive community in India. Their hypervisibility is courtesy of their sartorial and ritual practices, a particular discipleship-…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 407-432, October 2025. Anti-discrimination is a crucial focus for researchers, policymakers and designers of technical systems. Leveraging insights from AI fairness and inclusion studies, we ex…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 362-383, October 2025. As women’s organisations have mobilised the Indian state since the 1980’s to institute a slate of laws on intimate violence, men’s rights groups (MRAs) have formed in cou…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 338-361, October 2025. A significant development in Indian classical music during the early 20th century was the emergence of women trained in the vocal genre of Hindustaniragamusic.1The city o…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 320-337, October 2025. Kathleen Olga Vaughan (1869–1956) was a British medical doctor and obstetrician who worked in colonial India from 1903 to the mid-1920s. Unlike most of her contemporaries…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 296-319, October 2025. The outbreak of the Second World War saw a wider recruitment of women for various roles in intelligence, counter-intelligence and espionage. There had already been an act…

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 276-295, October 2025. Focussing on colonial western India, this article discusses pioneering initiatives of women physical educators, exercise enthusiasts and founders of gymnasiums and physic…