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Catalogue 2021 1 WOMEN UNLIMITED CATALOGUE 2021
an associate of
kali for women
new & forthcoming books
2021
WOMEN UNLIMITED CATALOGUE 2021 2 3 WOMEN UNLIMITED CATALOGUE 2021Women Unlimited is a subsidiary
of Kali for Women, India’s first and
oldest feminist press, which publishes
scholarly and academic books in the
social sciences, fiction, general interest contents
non-fiction, pamphlets and monographs,
and activist material. This latest catalogue
combines an exciting new range of 7
books and authors commissioned by academic & non-fiction
Women Unlimited, and the best of
previous titles published by Kali between 32
1984 and 2004. We continue to explore autobiographies,
new issues, anticipate trends, develop memoirs, reminiscences
new perspectives, and offer cutting edge
feminist scholarship, activist material and 42
creative writing, at affordable prices.
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NEW NEW
GAINING GROUND THE DOCTOR AND MRS A.
The Changing Contours of Feminist Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian
Organising in Post-1990s India Dream Analysis
SADHNA ARYA SARAH PINTO
The 1990s were a turning point for the
Indian Women’s Movement (IWM). In 1940/41, a young Punjabi woman,
New challenges complicated old issues, ‘Mrs A.’, ill at ease in her marriage and
affecting our analyses and our strategies eager for personal and national freedom,
for mobilising. Feminists were pushed sat down with psychiatrist, Dev Satya Nand,
SADHNA ARYA is Associate into questioning the universal category for an experiment in his new method of
Professor in the Department of of ‘woman’, by women from minority dream analysis. Her analysis included
Political Science, Satyawati College
communities and marginalised castes or a surge of emotion and reflections on SARAH PINTO is Associate
(E), University of Delhi. She was
Senior Fellow with the Centre for
sexualities, or by those with disabilities. sexuality, gender, marriage, ambition, Professor, Tufts University. She
Women’s Development Studies trauma, and mythology. is the author of Daughters of
(CWDS) in 2004-05, and the Indian Gaining Ground maps these new contours Parvati: Women and Madness in
Council for Social Science Research by taking up five critical interventions In a brilliant reading of Mrs A.’s Contemporary India and Where
conversations with Dr Satya Nand, the There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss
(ICSSR) from 2013 to 2015. She is made by movements that grew out of the
in Rural India.
actively involved with women’s rights IWM but established distinct identities author opens a window onto gender and
issues and has written extensively around their concerns. Muslim women sexuality in late colonial Indian society,
on the subject. She is the author came together around community identity; and the ways in which Mrs A. put ethics
of Women, Gender Equality and the Dalit women highlighted gender and caste in motion, creating alternatives to ideals of
State and the Occasional Paper patriarchy; sex workers challenged prevalent belonging, recognition, and consciousness.
on The National Commission for
definitions of work; queer politics critiqued Her account is an inspired example of
Women–Assessing Performance, and
has also co-edited Narivadi Rajniti –
heteronormative sexuality; and women with thinking beyond the known.
Sangharsh Evam Mudde and Poverty, disabilities raised searching questions about
Gender and Migration. what constitutes an ideal body.
Sadhna Arya offers a compelling and
comprehensive account of the expanding
horizons of feminist organising, and of the
Rs 650 Pb pp. 233+iv vitality of women’s movements in India in Rs 675 Hb pp. 241
ISBN: 978-93-85606-28-1 the 21st century. ISBN: 978-93-85606-21-2
All rights available All rights available excluding North America
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NEW NEW
academic
SITUATING SOCIAL MEDIA BANS AND BAR GIRLS
Gender, Caste, Protest, Solidarity Performing Caste in Mumbai’s
Dance Bars
and&non-fiction
SAMATA BISWAS & SAMEENA DALWAI
ATIG GHOSH (eds.)
non-fiction
Social media produce numerous spaces and On August 16, 2005, the Maharashtra
Contributors opportunities, globally, for people to link government summarily banned dancing by
Pamela Philipose up, reach out, mobilise, assert their identity, bar girls in Mumbai’s 1,250 dance bars. The
Apala Kundu, Pragya Paramita build bridges... For those on the margins, amended Bombay Police Act prohibited
Purna Banerjee this virtual alternative enables them to break dancing in any establishment where alcohol
Georgy Kuruvila Roy down otherwise impenetrable social barriers was served, but the prohibition was selective:
Samata Biswas and form close-knit digifams.
Ria De five star hotels, clubs and upscale discothèques
Ishita Dey Is social media, then, a credible space for were exempt. Overnight, more than 75,000 SAMEENA DALWAI is Associate
Priyam Ghosh building social movements? Who is using women were rendered jobless. Thousands Professor and Assistant Director,
Anup Shekhar Chakraborty it to register dissent, affect change? How were left without a livelihood; many hundreds Centre for Women, Law and
were forced into sex work or prostitution; and Social Change at Jindal Global
successful have such movements been? Are
SAMATA BISWAS teaches English several more returned to their villages as their Law School. She has an LLM
at Bethune College, Kolkata. Her
the prejudices that exist offline, present from Warwick and a PhD from
online as well? What is the political fallout incomes dried up.
doctoral research is centred on Keele University. She has worked
body cultures in contemporary of multidirectional conversations on the Sameena Dalwai argues that three critical as a lawyer with human rights
India. She is a media activist Internet? What about the backlash from factors were responsible for the ban coming organisations in Mumbai, as well as
interested in gender and caste. trolls and gatekeepers? into being when it did: globalisation, and the with NGOs in rural Maharashtra.
market opening up to new entertainment She writes on caste, gender,
ATIG GHOSH teaches History at Situating Social Media enquires into the sexuality, communalism and the
possibilities and actual practices of activism and new money; moral panic in society and law, and is a newspaper columnist
Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.
on social media. Its wide-ranging essays among the middle class; and caste governance, in English and Marathi. Her co-
His doctoral research enquired
into mofussil articulations in 19th examine the reportage of incidents and that sought to reinforce its hold by outlawing edited anthology of memoirs,
century Bengal. He has edited the issues by a path-breaking YouTube channel predominantly low caste bar girls, who were Babri Masjid, 25 Years On… was
volume Branding the Migrant like Dalit Camera; analyse different now enhancing their caste status by using their published in 2017.
and is currently researching movements that not only trended online traditional skills as dancers, to their advantage.
popular movements. but also thrived on the streets like #MeToo, This monograph introduces the radical concept
Pink Chaddi and others; unpack the Help of caste capital to examine the process that led
Rs 600 Pb pp. 233+iv Uttarakhand mobilisation for climate to the ban, the opposition to it, and the legal Rs 595 Hb pp. 242+ix
ISBN: 978-93-85606-27-4 disaster victims; and attempt a theory of arguments for and against it. ISBN: 978-93-85606-24-3
All rights available what makes the digital public click. All rights available
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CAN YOU HEAR KASHMIRI WHY I AM NOT A
WOMEN SPEAK? HINDU WOMAN
Narratives of Resistance and Resilience A Personal Story
and&non-fiction
NITASHA KAUL & WANDANA SONALKAR
ATHER ZIA (eds.)
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Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? is a In a reasoned critique of Hindutva and “This layered political account
first-of-its-kind volume of writings by Kashmiri Hinduism, feminist scholar and activist, weaves personal and public
women that invite readers to understand Wandana Sonalkar, outlines why she, born histories into a voyage of self-
NITASHA KAUL is an academic, and explore their lifeworld from the inside. female and upper caste in Maharashtra, has discovery.Wandana Sonalkar probes
novelist, and poet. She is currently what it means to be a politically
The essays are candid and critical, as they repudiated her religious identity. conscious Indian citizen —
Associate Professor, Politics and combining Marxism, feminism, and
International Relations, at the
discuss a wide range of issues—the aftermath
always, always, a deep awareness of
Centre for the Study of Democracy, of the shocking revocation of Article 370 in Based on her personal experience, and on caste. She describes our collective
University of Westminster, London. August 2019; the struggles of the Kashmiri textual and empirical evidence, she offers life in the present with a sharp
She is the author of Imagining Pandit woman and her larger community; an intimate account of caste practices, and political eye: tottering on the edge
of Hindu majoritarian rule, guided
Economics Otherwise: Encounters the spectacles and street protests in the argues that patriarchy and Brahminism by the exclusionary ideology of
with Identity/Difference, Residue and are integral to Hinduism. As such, it is Hindutva, but also redeemed by
Future Tense.
Valley; women’s companionships and female
misogynist and casteist, and its exclusionary everyday acts of resistance.”
alliances; the links between militarisation, — Githa Hariharan, author,
ATHER ZIA is a political militarism, and the legal impunity of the law imperatives are essential to both its I Have Become the Tide
anthropologist, poet, columnist, and enforcement agencies; among others. In times practice—and to Hindutva, which extends
short-fiction writer. She teaches when Kashmiris suddenly find themselves this imperative to Muslims.
at the University of Northern WANDANA SONALKAR was
being forced into surrendering their mobility, professor of women’s and gender
Colorado Greeley, and Ather is the She reiterates that discrimination and
author of Resisting Disappearances: their rights and their autonomy via the studies at the Tata Institute of
inequality have been so internalised that
Military Occupation and Women’s abrogation of Article 370, the powerful Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is the
their daily observance segues seamlessly into
Activism in Kashmir and co-editor words and voices of the women of the Valley translator of, among others, We
of Resisting Occupation in Kashmir
social interactions, thus crystallising and Also Made History: Women in the
shatter the silence and speak truth to power entrenching them deeply in society.
and A Desolation called Peace. A Ambedkar Movement by Urmila
and society. Pawar & Meenakshi Moon; and of
widely published columnist, she is
the founder-editor of Kashmir Lit Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The
Contributors Many Worlds of R.B. More. She writes
and co-founder of Critical Kashmir
Studies Collective. Uzma Falak Alliya Anjum regularly on gender and caste
Aditi Saraf Essar Batool
Asiya Zahoor Hafsa Kanjwal Rs 350 Pb Pp. 169+vi
Rs 795 Hb Pp. 234+xviii Nishita Trisal Mir Fatimah Kanth ISBN 978-93-85606-31-1
ISBN 978-93-85606-30-4 Samreen Mushtaq Mona Bhan All rights available
All rights available Inshah Malik Deepti Misri
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LIFESCAPES EVERYDAY
Interviews with Contemporary Women SUSTAINABILITY
Writers from Tamil Nadu Gender Justice and Fair Trade
Tea in Darjeeling
K. SRILATA &
R. SWARNALATHA DEBARATI SEN
What is it like to be a creative writer in Everyday Sustainability takes readers to ground
a society which continues to have rigid zero of market-based sustainability initiatives
expectations of what is proper for a in the idyllic tea hill-gardens of Darjeeling,
K. SRILATA is a poet, fiction writer, woman? How do women find the time,
translator and professor at the Indian
India, where Fair Trade ostensibly promises
space and energy to write? What are the gender justice to minority Nepali women
Institute of Technology, Madras. Her forms that engage them?
first book of poems, Seablue Child, engaged in organic tea production. These
was published in 2000, followed by The history of women’s writing from women tea farmers and plantation workers
Arriving Shortly. Her debut novel Table Tamil Nadu post-independence is rich and have distinct entrepreneurial strategies and DEBARATI SEN is Associate
for Four was long-listed for the Man fascinating, linked to significant social everyday practices of social justice that, at Professor of Anthropology and
Asian Literary Prize in 2009. reform movements that tried to construct times, dovetail with, and, at other times, rub International Conflict Management
a new discourse on gender and on an against the tenets of the emerging global at Kennesaw State University. She
R. SWARNALATHA is professor altered perception of space, body and
morality market. has been published in leading
in the Department of Humanities identity. journals, such as Anthropology in
and Social Sciences at Indian
This book presents the voices and views of Action; Critique of Anthropology;
Institute of Technology, Madras. Sen questions why women beneficiaries of
Last Instructions, her first novel, contemporary Tamil women writers whose Feminist Studies; Environment and
transnational justice-making projects remain
was published in 2015. She has works explore the implications of being Society; and Anthropology of Work
sceptical about the potential for economic and Review and has also contributed to
contributed to several short fiction female in Tamil Nadu today, in serious social empowerment through Fair Trade while
volumes including First Proof: The and playful ways. anthologies like New South Asian
Penguin Book of New Writing from
simultaneously seeking the use of movement Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities
India and has edited Ecoambiguity, to give voice to their situated demands and Indigenous Conflict Management
Community, and Development and for mobility, economic advancement, and Strategies.
Ecocriticism of the Global South . community level social justice.
Featured writers
Kutti Revathi Sakti Arulanandam
Rajathi Salma Che. Brinda
Perundevi Uma Mohan
R.Vatsala Uma Maheswari Rs 695 Pb pp. 251+xx
Rs 375 Pb pp. 210+xx Sukirtharani Lavanya Sundararajan ISBN: 978-93-85606-16-8
ISBN: 978-85606-19-9 Manushi Bharati Kavin Malar All rights available
All rights available Sakti Jothi R. Meenakshi
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FUKUOKA GRAND PRIZE LAUREATE, 2012
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VANDANA SHIVA
Who really feeds the world?
WHO REALLY FEEDS
The answer to this question lies, first, in
ONENESS vs. THE 1%
Oneness
dismantling the myths that surround the
industrial mode of food production which
relies heavily on chemical inputs and seed
monopolies; and then examining, the costs
and benefits of monocultures vs. biodiversity;
soil depletion vs. soil regeneration via
VANDANA SHIVA
THE WORLD?
multicropping; sustainable agriculture vs.
Who Really Feeds the World ?
cash-cropping; localisation vs. globalisation;
and co-operative farming vs. corporate profit. Who really
1
feeds the world?
In a succinct and clear-eyed assessment
vs
of the world’s current food crisis, Shiva
contends that food and agriculture have
become the sites for major paradigm
wars about how we produce, process and
distribute food. Caught in the cross-fire
between small producers and corporate
1
giants, are the one billion people in the world
the
who suffer from hunger and malnutrition; and
the thousands afflicted with diseases caused
by toxins in our food.
Shiva advocates a powerful alternative to this
scenario; reclaiming the right to food security
through sustainable practises that value
biodiversity and seed sovereignty, creating a
VANDANA SHIVA
future in which no one goes hungry.
WITH KARTIKEY SHIVA VANDANA SHIVA
ISBN: 978-93-85606-10-6
Rs. 300
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, Who really feeds the world?
an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, Who Really Feeds the World?
Vandana Shiva believes the answer to this takes a productively interdisciplinary
VANDANA SHIVA is a economic polarisation... have become our question lies, first, in dismantling the approach to the modern-day food
world-renowned environmental lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s myths that surround the industrial mode crisis and plots a tentative route
thinker and activist, a leader seven-billion-plus population pushes the of food production which relies heavily toward “a food and agricultural system
in the International Forum on planet—and all its people—to the social on chemical inputs and seed monopolies; that is at peace with the Earth.”
Globalisation, and of the Slow Food
and ecological brink. In Oneness vs. the 1%, and then examining the costs and benefits —Publishers’ Weekly
Movement. Director of Navdanya
and of the Research Foundation for Vandana Shiva takes on the Billionaires of monocultures vs. biodiversity; soil
Club of Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg and All of us who care about the future
Science, Technology and Ecology, depletion vs. soil regeneration; sustainable
other modern Mughals, whose blindness to of Planet Earth must be grateful to
and a tireless crusader for farmers’, agriculture vs. cash-cropping; localisation vs. Vandana Shiva. Her voice is powerful,
peasants’ and women’s rights, the rights of people, and to the destructive globalisation; and co-operative farming vs. and she is not afraid to tackle those
she is the author and editor of a impact of their construct of linear progress, corporate profit. corporate giants that are polluting,
score of influential books on the have wrought havoc across the world. degrading and ultimately destroying
environment. She is the recipient
In this succinct and clear-eyed assessment the natural world.
of over 20 international awards,
Basing her analysis on explosive little- of the world’s food crisis, Shiva contends —Jane Goodall,
including Save the World Award
known facts, Shiva exposes the 1%’s model UN Messenger of Peace
(2009); Sydney Peace Prize (2010); that food and agriculture have become the
Calgary Peace Prize (Canada, of philanthrocapitalism, which is about sites for major paradigm wars. Caught in A provocative narrative of
2011); and the Thomas Merton deploying unaccountable money to bypass the cross-fire between small producers and ecological war.
Award (2011). democratic structures, derail diversity, —Hindustan Times
corporate giants, are the one billion people
and impose totalitarian ideas, based on in the world who suffer from hunger and An eye-opener for serious readers.
KARTIKEY SHIVA is a shatterer
One Science, One Agriculture and One malnutrition; and the thousands afflicted —The Sunday Tribune
of illusions, grower of freedom, and
agent of light. History. She calls for the “resurgence of real with diseases caused by toxins in our food.
knowledge, real intelligence, real wealth, real She advocates a powerful alternative to A rock star in the worldwide battle
work, real well-being”, so that people can against genetically modified seeds.
Rs 350 Pb pp. 190
this scenario: reclaiming the right to food —Bill Myers
reclaim their right to: Live Free. Think Free. security through sustainable practises that
ISBN: 978-93-85606-18-2
US, Canada, UK, Australia, Italy, France,
Breathe Free. Eat Free. value biodiversity and seed sovereignty,
Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Chile, Argentina, and creating a future in which no one Rs 300 Pb pp. 132
Colombia, Bolivia, Malayalam rights sold. goes hungry.
All others available ISBN: 978-93-85606-10-6
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SEED SOVEREIGNTY,
MAKING PEACE
academic
FOOD SECURITY
Women in the Vanguard
WITH THE EARTH
Beyond Resource, Land and
and&non-fiction
Food Wars
VANDANA SHIVA (ed.) VANDANA SHIVA
non-fiction
This unique international offering on an Wars in the 21st century are wars against the
..a powerful counter-narrative issue of critical importance, demonstrates earth; against natural resources like water,
of how farmers, scientists and how women as activists, scientists and soil, forests, minerals, seeds. The global
citizen-activists across the globe are scholars are at the forefront of shaping new
organising to reclaim sovereignty and
corporate economy, based on the idea of BY THE SAME AUTHOR
scientific and economic paradigms to reclaim limitless growth, has become a war economy,
control over seeds and food.
—The Book Review seed sovereignty and food security across the and the means it uses are instruments of war. Soil Not Oil
world. Trade wars. Waters wars. Food wars. Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Food Insecurity
Shiva is a burst of creative energy, Rs 325 Pb pp. 162
ISBN: 978-81-88965-55-7
an intellectual power. Women in the North and South are leading Globalisation and consumerism lubricate
—The Progressive movements to change both practice and the war against the earth; corporate control Globalization’s New Wars
paradigm: how they grow and transform our violates all ethical and ecological limits. It Seed, Water & Life Forms
Her fierce intellect and her Rs 250 Hb pp. 136
food. As seed keepers and food producers, as promotes technologies of production based
disarmingly friendly, accessible ISBN: 978-81-88965-17-5
manner have made her a valuable mothers and consumers, they are engaged in on genetic engineering, geo-engineering and Italian, Spanish and Malayalam rights sold.
advocate for people all over the renewing a food system that is better aligned toxins; industrial development that entails All others available
developing world. with the ecological processes of the earth’s the enforced appropriation of land, rivers,
—Ms. magazine renewal, the laws of human rights and social Staying Alive
mountains; agribusinesses that deplete Women, Ecology and Survival in India
justice, and the means through which our nature’s diversity; land-grab in Africa, Asia, Rs 375 Pb pp. 224 + xxix
bodies stay well and healthy. South America. ISBN: 978-81-88965-58-8
Chinese, Australian, US and Canada,
Making Peace with the Earth outlines how a Spanish,Turkish, French and Malayalam
rights sold. All others available
paradigm shift to earth-centred politics and
economics is our only chance of survival;
and how collective resistance to corporate
exploitation can open the way to a new
environmentalism of interdependence and Rs 450 Pb pp. 267 + viii
Rs 500 Pb pp. 380 +vi
earth democracy. ISBN: 978-81-88965-75-5
ISBN: 978-81-88965-89-2 UK, US, German, South African,
English language rights sold. Australian,Turkish and Malayalam
All others available rights sold. All others available
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MARRIAGE UNSETTLING
academic
AND ITS DISCONTENTS THE ARCHETYPES
Women, Islam and Law in India Femininities and Masculinities in
Indian Politics
and&non-fiction
SYLVIA VATUK MANUELA CIOTTI (ed.)
non-fiction
Debates around Muslim Personal Law How have the archetypes for femininities
(MPL), the Dissolution of Muslim Marriages and masculinities been reshaped in Indian Contributors
... rich in empirical data, Sylvia Vatuk’s
Act and the Muslim Women (Protection of political history and in the present? How Tanika Sarkar Badri Narayan
Marriage and its Discontents
... cuts straight to the voices and Rights on Divorce) Act have tended to focus have the practises and subjectivities of Charu Gupta Atreyee Sen
concerns of Indian Muslim women, on the issue of unilateral divorce, a right non-elite individuals and communities Sylvie Guichard Hugo Gorringe
who otherwise have to be heard over granted to husbands, as well as on polygamy contributed to the production of alternative Wendy Singer Manuela Ciotti
the clamour of media headlines and and other discriminatory provisions in MPL. self representation? What does a focus on the
the intense political colour personal linkages between materialities and ideologies Unsettling the Archetypes cogently
laws attract in India. This landmark book, while giving no quarter reveal in such an inquiry? delivers just what its title promises
—The Hindu - to interrogate and defamiliarize
to undesirable practices like triple talaq,
Unsettling the Archetypes addresses these conventional approaches to
presents the author’s detailed findings on understanding gender by inflecting it
questions from the standpoint of
when, and how, Muslim women resort through the discourse of Indian politics.
longstanding issues within Indian society,
to legal remedies should their marriages The strength of this compact anthology
history and culture. The issues range from the
break down. Her thought-provoking lies in its pluralistic deliberation…
nationalist movement for independence to
SYLVIA VATUK is Professor analysis is based on a decade of research in —The Telegraph
Emerita of Anthropology at the the career of the Women’s Bill in Parliament;
Chennai and Hyderabad, during which she
University of Illinois at Chicago. violence in Hindu-Muslim relations; meanings MANUELA CIOTTI is Associate
consulted family court records and court
She is the author of Kinship and surrounding the body; the life of history Professor of Global Studies at
petitions; conducted extensive interviews
Urbanization: White-Collar Migrants textbooks; and forms of activism among Aarhus University, Denmark. She
in North India, and of numerous
with government-appointed qazis in both
Dalit communities. Rather than offering one is the author of Retro-modern India:
articles in scholarly journals. She has cities; met and had detailed discussions Forging the Low-caste Self, and has
encompassing framework for all phenomena,
contributed to a large number of with the women themselves, as well as with published several essays in leading
the essays in this volume sketch new lineages,
edited volumes on issues of gender lawyers, judges, counsellors, court staff and journals, including Journal of the
and family, based on many years of connections, and ruptures in the production
advocates. She also examined, for the first Royal Anthropological Institute,
ethnographic fieldwork among both of femininities and masculinities across Modern Asian Studies, Feminist
time, the phenomenon of wife-initiated
Hindus and Muslims in north and political time and space. Review, and Third World Quarterly.
divorce or khula, and made the startling
south India.
discovery that their number far exceeded
Rs 650 Hb pp. 274+xviii court-awarded divorces in any given year. Rs 650 Hb pp. 273+viii
ISBN: 978-93-85606-09-0 ISBN: 978-81-88965-96-0
All rights available All rights available
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Risky Bodies
Geeta Patel
& Techno-Intimacy
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy traverses
academic
the technologically mediated intimacies
that people fashion as they grapple with
reflections on sexuality.
GENDER, CASTE AND
the radical uncertainties that inhabit their
RISKY BODIES
lives. Elusive snarls and double binds dog
Geeta Patel is a deep thinker. In Risky Bodies she takes
media. science. finance
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy
us with her on a rich and complex journey to show the everyday.
us how techno-intimacies work. Patel navigates with
technology, philosophy, gender, finance and more, creating
By working with materials salvaged
conversations that will continue for some time.
from various genres of science, this
& TECHNO-INTIMACY THE IMAGINATION OF
—Deborah G. Johnson provocative, cutting edge book charts
Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics,
uncommon routes through enigmatic
Science, Technology and Society Program,
School of Engineering, stalemates: political economies of
University of Virginia cinematic archives; domesticity; lyrical
temporalities; aesthetic mobilisations; and
EQUALITY
emergent financial forms.
Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science,
A work of intricacy and importance. Patel writes poetically,
and&non-fiction
erotically about the risk that inhabits our everyday through
the mundane and the fantastical — behaviour and thought
Along the way, Patel’s poetic, edgy, brutal,
of habit, montages and transitions of lived and imagined
technae, mobile materialities, technologies of the flesh, and compassionate analyses burrow deep
political economies, capitalised cultures. It weaves a potent, under the skin of habits that we hold
Finance
perilous tale of adventure and minute discoveries, ‘counter-
dear, habits that breathe us into life even
monumental’, contingent, sexy. Seductive and absorbing.
as they clasp us.
—Brinda Bose
Jawaharlal Nehru University
This dazzling, commodious book offers new angles on
habitual ways of thinking about historiography, technology
and sexuality. Geeta Patel narrates what she calls ‘techno-
intimacy’ with inimitable lyricism, political commitment and
imagination. In stunning analyses of a range of archival
genres, from the gendered origins of financial forms, to
GEETA PATEL ANUPAMA RAO (ed.)
cinematic texts and the aesthetics of temporality and history
non-fiction
5-94-6
in South Asia, Patel provides moving meditations on the
critical impasses that haunt our intellectual lives. This is an
inspiring and necessary book for our times and will inform
Geeta Patel
our critical discourse for years to come.
—Anjali Arondekar
University of California, Santa Cruz
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy traverses the Gender, Caste and the Imagination of Equality
technologically mediated intimacies that is a sequel to the widely-read and influential
...an innovative, even orgiastic, people fashion as they grapple with the Gender & Caste: Issues in Indian Feminism Contributors
contribution to intersecting, jugåd radical uncertainties that inhabit their lives. (2003). The current volume addresses the Lucinda Ramberg Sharmila Rege
vectors of subjectivity as they collide,
like excited molecules, against the
By working with materials salvaged from entanglements of caste and gender by asking Anjali Arondekar Varsha Ayyar
various genres of science, this provocative, how religion, political economy, image Smile Vidya & Svati Shah
thematic kernels of sexuality, media,
science, and finance. cutting-edge book charts uncommon economy, and debates about sexuality and Gee Imaan Shailaja Paik
—South Asian Review routes through enigmatic stalemates: desire are reshaping the caste question in Semmalar Qudsiya
Aniket Jaaware Contractor
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—The Book Review
changed terrain of debate and discussion Anupama Rao Y.S. Aloné
Along the way, Patel’s poetic, edgy, brutal, that has rendered intersectionality (gender,
and compassionate analyses burrow deep caste, class) obvious, yet insufficient, for
under the skin of habits that we hold dear, understanding the complex ways in which ANUPAMA RAO is Associate
habits that breathe us into life even as they debates over sex and social difference are Professor of History at Barnard
clasp us. being transformed in the current conjuncture. College and Associate Director
GEETA PATEL is the Director of the Institute for Comparative
of UVA in India and an Associate Literature and Society. She is the
Professor at the University of author of The Caste Question:
Virginia. She is the author of the Dalits and Politics in Modern India;
acclaimed Lyrical Movements, Gender & Caste: Issues in Indian
Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Feminism; and has contributed to
Colonialism and Desire in Miraji’s a large number of edited volumes
Urdu Poetry. on issues of gender, caste and
sexuality studies.
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Conjugality unbound This book questions marriage as a self-evident,
Ramberg (Eds.)
Basu &
timeless, and unitary institution, and considers
the complex negotiations of everyday intimate,
DEEPTI MISRI
economic, sexual, domestic, and procreative Communal violence, ethnonationalist
arrangements that occur under the sign of insurgencies, terrorism and State violence
marriage. What counts as marriage? What’s Deepti Misri is Assistant Professor
have marred the Indian nation-state
love got to do with it? How are the married of Women and Gender Studies at the
academic
since its inception. These phenomena
and the unmarried marked off from each other University of Colorado, Boulder.
in relation to the law and to the gods? Might frequently intersect with prevailing forms
CONJUGALITY UNBOUND BEYOND PARTITION
productive, inventive, subversive relationships of gendered violence, complicated by caste,
and modes of being human take shape outside religion, regional identity and class within
marriage and/or against its regulatory norms? communities.
C onjugality u nbound
There are seemingly infinite formulae for
B E YO N D
addressing such questions. Deepti Misri shows how Partition began a
In conversation with materialist feminist history of politicised animosity associated
theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory,
Sexual Economies, State Regulation and Gender,Violence, and Representation
with the differing ideas of “India” held by
this book considers the nature of sexual
PA RT I T I O N
communities and in regions on the one
economies and the ways in which the discourses hand, and by the political-military Indian
of “marriage” and “conjugality” operate within
them. The essays launch an interdisciplinary State on the other. She moves beyond
conversation across the historical and that formative national event, however, in
PA RT IT IO N
B E YO N D
the Marital Form in India in Postcolonial India
ethnographic record in India, analysing order to examine other forms of gendered
S exual e conomieS , S tate R egulation marriage as reflected in the deployment of violence in the postcolonial life of the
legal, psychiatric, and reproductive governance, nation, including custodial rape, public
and the m aRital F oRm in i ndia
and&non-fiction
in contested boundaries of religion and kinship,
in marriage to gods and queer subjects and Gender,Violence, stripping, de-turbanning and enforced
disappearances.
across castes. These conversations help us
think about marriage, its regulation, and its and Representation in Assembling literary, historiographic,
reinventions as windows onto social life and
human thriving, as well as social death and Postcolonial India performative and visual representations of
individual abjection. gendered violence against women and men,
Misri establishes that cultural expressions
Cover artwork: do not just follow violence, they determine
Editors: Srimati Basu & Lucinda Ramberg Nilima Sheikh, After Amnesia, 2001, its very contours, and interrogates the
108.5 x 77.5 cm, mixed tempera on gendered scripts underwriting the violence
SRIMATI BASU &
originating in the contested visions of what
vasli paper.
DEEPTI MISRI
DEEPTI MISRI “India” means.
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Communal violence, ethnonationalist
What counts as marriage? What’s love got insurgencies, terrorism and State violence
to do with it? How are the married and Beyond Partition is a suavely written,
have marred the Indian nation-state insightful book that makes a significant
SRIMATI BASU is Professor of the unmarried marked off from each other since its inception. These phenomena contribution both to the discourse
Gender and Women’s Studies and in relation to the law and to the gods?
Anthropology at the University of
frequently intersect with prevailing forms around postcolonial statehood in India
Might productive, inventive, subversive of gendered violence complicated by caste, and to the study of gender violence
Kentucky, and the author of the relationships and modes of being human religion, regional identity and class within and its representation in the post-
monograph, The Trouble with Marriage:
take shape outside marriage and/or against communities. Independence Indian nation.
Feminists Confront Law and Violence
its regulatory norms? —The Hindu
in India. She has previously written
She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Conjugality Unbound questions marriage as a Deepti Misri shows how Partition began a This brilliant and exciting book
Women, Property and Propriety; illuminates how representational
self-evident, timeless, and unitary institution, history of politicised animosity associated practices of violence are co-
edited Dowry & Inheritance in the
series, Issues in Contemporary Indian and considers the complex negotiations with the differing ideas of “India” held by constitutive of power and resistance.
of everyday intimate, economic, sexual, communities and in regions on the one —Pacific Affairs
Feminism; and is a contributing
blogger to Ms. magazine. domestic, and procreative arrangements that hand, and by the political-military Indian
State on the other. She moves beyond Misri’s thoughtful and timely
occur under the sign of marriage. monograph...offers sustained
LUCINDA RAMBERG is Associate that formative national event, however, in feminist analyses of violence’s
Professor of Anthropology and order to examine other forms of gendered imbrication with all aspects of life in
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality violence in the postcolonial life of the contemporary India.
Studies at Cornell University. She is —The Book Review
the author of Given to the Goddess:
nation, including custodial rape, public
South Indian Devadasis and the stripping, de-turbanning and enforced
Conjugality Unbound is a welcome addition to the disappearances. Assembling literary, DEEPTI MISRI is Associate
Sexuality of Religion, and has published
burgeoning scholarship on marital and non-marital Professor and Director of
articles in American Ethnologist; historiographic, performative and visual
forms of intimate relations in the subcontinent. Undergraduate Studies-Women
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry;
—Economic & Political Weekly representations of gendered violence
Feminist Studies; and Medical and Gender Studies at the
against women and men, Misri establishes University of Colorado, Boulder.
Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in that cultural expressions do not just follow
This work is of great value as a study of gender
Health and Illness.
relations, as well as for a variegated understanding violence but determine its very contours,
of the institution of marriage and the marital form in and interrogates the gendered scripts
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MAITREYEE CHAUDHURI (ED.) NIVEDITA MENON (ED.)
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relevance of feminism as a method Raising seminal questions ranging
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in the Indian context, this volume
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harmonious families? well mapped by feminist scholarship, makes reading this volume to be
—Economic & Political Weekly
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Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal and explore the theoretical foundations heterosexuality, of feminine and masculine —The Tribune
Nehru University. She has written of feminism here. The inevitability of behaviour, of recognisably gendered Menon has put together a collection
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She is the author of Seeing Like
a Feminist, Recovering Subversion:
Feminist Politics Beyond the Law and
the editor of Gender and Politics in
India, among others.
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Women in India’s Partition Women from Pakistan, India &
Bangladesh Write on the Partition of India
RITU MENON & RITU MENON (ed.)
KAMLA BHASIN
RITU MENON is co-founder of Kali In 1947, India was simultaneously freed
for Women, India’s oldest feminist A matchless volume of non-fiction writing
academic and non-fiction
and divided. Partition affected everyone in
academic and non-fiction
press, and of Women Unlimited, an one way or another, but it had a particular by women from Pakistan, India and
associate of Kali for Women. She impact on women as they struggled to put Bangladesh on the Partition of India, The anthology ... proves yet again
has written and published widely No Woman’s Land is an unusual mix of
their lives back together again. Through how events like the Partition
on women, and is co-author of
the stories of women and an accompanying memoirs, interviews, reminiscences and devastates women and children,
Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim
narrative that locates them in a social and reflective essays by Ismat Chughtai, Sara leaving mental and emotional scars
Women in India; and From Mathura to
Suleri, Anis Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, that can never ever heal.
Manorama: Resisting Violence Against political context we get another view, from
—The Hindu
Women in India, among others. Her the margins as it were, of that momentous Meghna Guhathakurta, and many others.
edited books include Write About time, and look anew not only at how history Through their writings these women The volume ... contributes to
the Partition of India and In a Minority: gets written, but at those age-old boundaries articulate what Partition means to them; enriching our understanding of
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of religion, community, gender and nation. Partition as an ongoing history,
was awarded the Padma Shri in 2011.
Menon and Bhasin have been able to capture women’s
Muslims? Indians? Pakistanis? Bengalis? All as several of the contributors
KAMLA BHASIN is a feminist of these or none? Either or neither? Above contemplate the continuing
voices and the quality of their lives which traditional
activist, poet and author. She has all, their accounts raise that most troubling effects of Partition on the lives of
historians have ignored or dismissed.The stories show
written extensively on women and women across the nation-states of
the varying impact Partition had on women.... question: do women have a country?
on sustainable development and is —India Today contemporary South Asia.
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SATHYAVATHI
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Confronting Caste, Class & Gender
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is a feminist writer, a pioneer of within the reach of many of my people.
her own journey, but the life and times of a
the Indian women’s movement, country in flux.
founding member of the Asmita Sathyavathi captures the struggle of a Dalit
Resource Centre for Women woman in Telengana, to survive and acquire
Kannabiran was witness to, and participant an education in the face of overwhelming
and member of the collective, in, Andhra Pradesh politics and civil liberties SATHYAVATHI is one
reminiscences
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during the tumultuous decades of the
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late 1970s and 1980s, both as part of the
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Loss and Sathyavathi: Confronting talks between the Naxals and the government; and tribals. She was awarded
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SIDE EFFECTS OF LIVING SINGLE BY CHOICE
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JHILMIL BRECKENRIDGE & KALPANA SHARMA (ed.)
NAMARITA KATHAIT (eds.)
memoirs,
“This book is beautiful and it is brave. Be it divine punishment or a genetic abnormality, Marriage is near universal in India. For Peppered with humour and sober
We can only salute the courage with women, like it or not, marriage and
memoirs,reminiscences
madness was bad stock and we did not speak of it. revelations in equal measure, the
which these writers have let us into motherhood become their career ‘choices’. book addresses the liberation of being
their lives... Read them.” Families, society, peer groups, young girls,
Someday, I won’t have to explain in hushed tones single, as well as the challenges of
—Jerry Pinto, author, themselves, are so conditioned as to make the
who I am; diabetics or cancer patients don’t hide their societal pressure, and loneliness.
Em and the Big Hoom inevitability of marriage, the desirable norm.
illness. —The Hindu
But is this beginning to change? The Census
Side Effects of Living boldly attempts of 2011 reported that there were 25 million
There are different sizes of bodies. There are ...a poignant and humorous take on
to take the shame and prejudices never-married women in India, an increase of
different shades of the mind. There are different
reminiscences
what the new ‘normal’ is. ... Single by
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should share with family and friends... this century.
presents the words and verses of survivors, like a friendly companion...
—The Asian Age
writers, poets and artists, who are struggling with —Huffington Post
a mental condition or have watched their loved The 13 happily unmarried women in this
JHILMIL BRECKENRIDGE is a ones suffer. Through first-person life experiences anthology have arrived at their singledom
poet, writer and activist. She is the and moving poetry, they attempt to destigmatise from a variety of perspectives and experiences, KALPANA SHARMA is an
founder of Bhor Foundation. Her mental health issues, as they describe what but have one critical factor in common—none independent journalist and author
areas of work include mental health, happens when the mind gives in—or gives up. of them needs the social sanction of marriage, based in Mumbai. In over four
domestic violence and trauma. and all of them cherish their independence. decades as a journalist, she has
She vociferously opposes forced Refreshingly honest, always uplifting, this Their accounts are insightful, often amusing, worked with Himmat Weekly, The
psychiatry, supports the rights of sometimes poignant, and always courageous, Indian Express, The Times of India and
collection urges us to reject the shame and
persons with psychosocial disability indicating that what we may well be witnessing The Hindu. She is the author, among
blame that often accompanies mental illness.
and advocates for compliance with here is a transformation of the Great others, of Rediscovering Dharavi:
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