Off the beaten track: rethinking gender justice for Indian women/
Kishwar, Madhu
Off the beaten track: rethinking gender justice for Indian women/ Madhu Kishwar - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - 290 p. ; 22 cm.
I. Beginning With Our Own Lives: A Call for Dowry Boycott --
II. Rethinking Dowry Boycott --
III. Dowry Calculations: Daughter's Rights in her Parental Family --
IV. Knocking at the Portals of Justice: The Struggle for Women's Land Rights --
V. The Burning of Roop Kanwar --
VI. Co-ownership Rights for Wives: A Solution Worse than the Problem --
VII. When Daughters are Unwanted: Sex Determination Tests in India --
XIII. A Code for Self-Monitoring: Some Thoughts on Activism --
IX. Violence and the 1989 Election: Implications for Women --
X. Out of the Zenana Dabba: Strategies for Enhancing Women's Political Representation --
XI. Women's Marginal Role in Politics --
XII. Sex Harassment and Slander as Weapons of Subjugation --
XIII. When India 'Missed' the Universe --
XIV. Love and Marriage --
XV. Women, Sex and Marriage: Restraints as a Feminine Strategy --
XVI. Yes to Sita, No to Ram!: The Continuing Popularity of Sita in India --
XVII. Who Am I?: Living Identities vs Acquired Ones --
XVIII. A Horror of 'Isms': Why I do not Call Myself a Feminist.
0195648161
Women--Social conditions
Sex discrimination against women
Feminist theory
Women's rights
Women--Political activity
305.40954 / KIS/O
Off the beaten track: rethinking gender justice for Indian women/ Madhu Kishwar - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. - 290 p. ; 22 cm.
I. Beginning With Our Own Lives: A Call for Dowry Boycott --
II. Rethinking Dowry Boycott --
III. Dowry Calculations: Daughter's Rights in her Parental Family --
IV. Knocking at the Portals of Justice: The Struggle for Women's Land Rights --
V. The Burning of Roop Kanwar --
VI. Co-ownership Rights for Wives: A Solution Worse than the Problem --
VII. When Daughters are Unwanted: Sex Determination Tests in India --
XIII. A Code for Self-Monitoring: Some Thoughts on Activism --
IX. Violence and the 1989 Election: Implications for Women --
X. Out of the Zenana Dabba: Strategies for Enhancing Women's Political Representation --
XI. Women's Marginal Role in Politics --
XII. Sex Harassment and Slander as Weapons of Subjugation --
XIII. When India 'Missed' the Universe --
XIV. Love and Marriage --
XV. Women, Sex and Marriage: Restraints as a Feminine Strategy --
XVI. Yes to Sita, No to Ram!: The Continuing Popularity of Sita in India --
XVII. Who Am I?: Living Identities vs Acquired Ones --
XVIII. A Horror of 'Isms': Why I do not Call Myself a Feminist.
0195648161
Women--Social conditions
Sex discrimination against women
Feminist theory
Women's rights
Women--Political activity
305.40954 / KIS/O