Signposts: gender issues in post-independence India/ 
edited by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan 
 - New Brunswick:  Rutgers University Press,  1999. 
 - viii, 382 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Virgin mother, beloved other: the erotics of Tamil nationalism in colonial and post-colonial India / Sumathi Ramaswamy --<br/>Thinking about the new Indian middle class: gender, advertising and politics in an age of globalisation / Arvind Rajagopal --<br/>Gender, development and the women's movement: problems for a history of the present / Mary E. John --<br/>Gender-cleansing: the paradox of development and deteriorating female life chances in Tamil Nadu / Barbara Harriss-White --<br/>Gender, caste and modernity: a reading of U.R. Anantha Murthy's "Samskara" in its intellectual context / Nalini Natarajan --<br/>The impossible subject: caste and desire in the scene of the family / Susie Tharu --<br/>Understanding Sirasgaon: notes towards conceptualising the role of law, caste and gender in a case of "atrocity" / Anupama Rao --<br/>Cutting to size: property and gendered identity in the Indian higher courts / Srimati Basu --<br/>Of victims and vigilantes: the "Bandit queen" controversy / Priyamvada Gopal --<br/>The story of Draupadi's disrobing: meanings for our times / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan --<br/>Mnemosigning: ecstasies in pain / D. Venkat Rao. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813529127 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex discrimination against women<br/>Sex discrimination in employment<br/>Women--Social conditions<br/>Women in development
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.420954  / RAJ/S