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Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece

Corinne Ondine Pache - Children - 2004 - 558 pages
"Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece is the first systematic study of the considerable number of Greek babies and children who became enduring myths, objects of worship ...
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Power and Contestation: India Since 1989

Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam - History - 2007 - 238 pages
1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major ...
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Seeing Like a Feminist

Nivedita Menon - Literary Collections - 2012 - 120 pages
THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS For Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field ...
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Sexualities

Nivedita Menon - Feminism - 2007 - 404 pages
While sexual violence is an area that is well mapped by feminist scholarship, this volume focuses on transgresive and marginalised sexualities. It brings together writings on ...
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Embodied Violence: Communalising Female Sexuality in South Asia

Kumari Jayawardena, Malathi de Alwis - Social Science - 1996 - 328 pages
Embodied Violence is a major investigation into the myriad of ways in which societies play out the struggle for cultural identity on women's bodies. Focusing on communal ...
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The Violence of Development: The Political Economy of Gender

Karin Kapadia - Business & Economics - 2002 - 538 pages
Comprises 12 papers which assess the contemporary situation of women in India in four broad domains: the cultural, the social, the political and the economic. Argues that ...
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Writing the Women's Movement: A Reader

Mala Khullar - Feminism - 2005 - 572 pages
Contributed articles presented earlier at several seminars on women's studies and feminism in India.
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Social Scientist, Volume 19

India - 1991 - 758 pages
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