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.
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Women--Social conditions Sex discrimination against women Feminist theory Women's rights Women--Political activity