TY - BOOK AU - Kishwar, Madhu TI - Off the beaten track: rethinking gender justice for Indian women SN - 0195648161 U1 - 305.40954 PY - 1999/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Women--Social conditions KW - Sex discrimination against women KW - Feminist theory KW - Women's rights KW - Women--Political activity N1 - 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 ER -