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The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
A thematic history of the women's movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at how women's issues were raised, initially by men and as part of the movements for social reform, and then with the involvement of women in the nationalist movement, by women themselves. Using photographs, old and new documents, excerpts from letters, books and informal writings, the author documents the growing involvement of women and the formation of the early women's organizations, she examines the foregrounding of the `women's issue' during the reform and nationalist movements and its subsequent disappearance from the agenda of public debate until the post independence period of the sixties and seventies when it surfaces again.
Radha Kumar is Senior Fellow and Director of the project on Ethnic Conflict, Partition and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She is author of Divide and Fall: Bosnia in the Annals of Partition. She was formerly Executive Director, Helsinki Citizen's Assembly.
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| Page Count | 204 |
|---|---|
| Binding | Paperback |
| Year of Publication | 1993 |
| ISBN | 978 81 85107 76 9 |
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