Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Ahead of Print. 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 over th…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Ahead of Print. 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 India…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Ahead of Print. 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 Color…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Ahead of Print. 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 agin…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Ahead of Print. 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 of ele…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 307-311, June 2022.
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 292-294, June 2022. Tejaswini Niranjana, Musicophilia in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious (New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2020), 225 pages, ₹695 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-81-9…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 286-291, June 2022. Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020), 328 pp. ₹775 (Paperbac…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 295-298, June 2022. 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 A…
Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 299-302, June 2022. 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 97895500…