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MARY E. JOHN

Education
  Ph.D.(History of Consciousness Programme), University of California at Santa Cruz
  M.Phil (Philosophy), University of Puna
  M.A, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Mary E. John has been working in the fields of women’s studies and feminist politics since many years.  She was Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Women’s Studies Programme at JNU from 2001-2006.  She is currently completing a study on women’s relation to power in the context of local urban governance, and is part of a study investigating the declining sex ratio in north west India.  Her interests include questions of theory and methodology in women’s studies, and building new comparative frameworks across Asian and other contexts.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	Kamsootra se ‘Kamsootre’ Tak: Adhunik Bharat mein sexuality ke sarokar, (co-edited with Janaki Nair), trans. Abhay Kumar Dubey, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, 2008.
	Contested Transformations: Changing Economies and Identities in Contemporary India,     (co-edited with Praveen Kumar Jha and Surinder S. Jodhka) New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2006.
	Essais du feminisme Indienne contemporaine (co-edited with Danielle Haase-Dubosc et al), Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2003.
	French Feminism: an Indian Anthology (co-edited with Danielle Haase-Dubosc et al), New Delhi: Sage, 2003.
	A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India (co-edited with Janaki Nair), New Delhi: Kali for Women 1998 and London: Zed Press 2000.
	Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory and Post-colonial Histories, Berkeley: University of California Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.
	Women’s Studies in India: A Reader, New Delhi Penguin, 2008.

ARTICLES

	‘Gender Gaps’ in Higher Education: A Note on Recent Data” Anchoring Women’s studies in India: Twenty five years of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies, pp. 54-63, 2008.
	“New Agendas for Social Science Research”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.43, no.5, pp.36-38, February 2 2008.
	“Reservations and the Women's Movement in Twentieth Century India", in Women’s Reservation, ed. Meena Dhanda, New Delhi: Women Unlimited, pp.29-58, 2008.
	Sexing the Foetus: Feminist Politics and Method across Cultures,’ in Thinking with Donna Haraway: A Reader, ed. Sharon Tamari-Gabrizi
	“Women in Power? Gender, Caste and the Politics of Local Urban Governance,” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 42, no. 69, pp. 3986-3995, September 29-October 5, 2007
	‘Mirror Politics: Fire, Hindutva and Indian Culture’, (with Tejaswini Niranjana) reprinted in     Contemporary Literary Criticism ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter, Thomson and Gale, 2005, pp.106-110
	'Feminism, Poverty and the Emergent Social Order’ in Social Movements in India:Poverty, Power and Politics eds. Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Minnesota: Rowman and Littlefield, and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp.107-134
	'Women’s Studies in India and the Question of Asia’, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol.11, No.2 2005, pp.41-66
	‘Women and Feminism in China and India: A Conversation with Li Xiaojiang,’ Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 40, no. 16, April 2005
	‘Feminist Perspectives on Marriage and Family: A Historical View,’ Symposium, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.40, no.8, February 19 2005, pp.712-14, 721
	‘Feminist Interventions’ in Talking New Politics – Series: Are Other Worlds Possible? eds. Jai Sen and Mayura Saini, New Delhi: Zubaan Books, 2005
	'India -- Country Report’, Women’s/Gender Studies in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO: Bangkok, 2004, pp. 17-48
	‘A Curious Coincidence? Parity in France and Reservations for Women in India’, Trajectory of French Thought, French Information Resource Centre in association with Rupa & Co, New Delhi, 2004

INDU AGNIHOTRI

Education
  Ph.D.(History), Jawaharlal Nehru University
  M.Phil (History), Jawaharlal Nehru University
  M.A. (History), Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Area of Interest
  Gender and History
  The Women’s Movement in India
  Developing a Women’s Studies Programme at the Centre

Major Publications

	Globalization, Resistance and Change: Reflections on South Asian Women’s Experiences in Bhatia, Bhanot and Samanta (eds.) Gender Concerns in South Asia: Some Perspectives, Rawat, Jaipur, 2008.
	Women’s Movement and Governance: Issues and Challenges, in Smita Mishra-Panda (ed.) Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, Sage, New Delhi, 2008.

ANUPAMA ROY (roy_anupama@rediffmail.com)

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology) State University of New York, Binghamton, USA
  M.Phil (Political Science), University of Delhi
  MA (Sociology) State University of New York, Binghamton, USA
  MA (Political Science), University of Allahabad

Anupama Roy has been working and writing on the socio-historical, political, legal and juridical dimensions of citizenship in India. She was earlier Sir Ratan Tata post doctoral fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi and was elected Agatha Harisson Memorial Fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.  She is currently engaged in research on the gender dimensions of electoral governance in India focussing on the Election Commission and the manner in which a common political space for democratic citizenship may be built through institutional practice.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	Poverty, Gender and Migration in Asia, (co-edited), Sage, Delhi, 2006.
	Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations, Orient Longman, Delhi, 2005.

OCCASIONAL PAPERS

	‘Democratic Citizenship: From Proportionality to a Continuum Approach to Political Participation’, CWDS Occasional Paper No.44, December 2006.
	Globalisation and Citizenship: Contests, Ambiguities and Alternatives’, IEG Occasional Paper in Sociology, No.10, February 2003, Institute of Economic Growth, University Enclave, Delhi.

GUEST EDITOR

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 14: 1 (January-April 2007), special issue on ‘Rethinking Citizenship’.

RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

	‘Citizenship’, Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya eds., Political Theory: A Reader, Pearson, Delhi, 2008.
	Towards a Practice of Democratic Citizenship, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.14, No.1, 2007
	‘Citizenship and Rights’ in Delhi University E. Book on Gender, Environment and Human Rights, available on Delhi University website, 2007.
	Preventing Atrocities Against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Kamala Sankaran and Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Laws in India, OUP, Delhi, 2007.
	The Overseas Indian Citizen: A New Setubandhan?’, Economic and Political Weekly, 15 April  2006.
	‘Human Rights in Our Times: A Continuing Struggle for Equality, Liberation and Dignity’, Afterword to the South Asian edition of Micheline R. Ishay, The History of Human Rights published by Orient Longman, Delhi, 2008
	Securing the Insecure: The Rights and Plight of Refugees in South Asia’ in Sanjay Chaturvedi and Jyriki Kakonen eds., Globalisation of Insecurities: Critical Perspectives in Europe and South Asia, South Asian Publishers, Delhi, 2004.
	Making Good Citizens: Teaching Fundamental Duties in Schools’, Economic and Political Weekly,  21 June 2003.
	Historical and Theoretical frameworks of Women’s Citizenship in India’, Indian Social    Science Review, Vol.5, No.1, January-June 2003.
	The Domestic, Domesticity and Women Citizens in Late Colonial India’, Contemporary India, Vol.2, No.3, 2003.
	The Womanly Vote and Women Citizens', Contributions to Indian Sociology, (n.s.),Vol.36, No. 3, 2002.
	Community, Women Citizens and a Women's Politics', Economic and Political Weekly, Special Issue on Review of Women Studies,  5 May 2001.

RENU ADDLAKHA

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Delhi.
  M.Phil (Sociology), University of Delhi
  MA (Social Work), University of Delhi

Renu Addlakha did her doctoral research on the psychiatric profession in India with particular reference to the treatment of women. Her areas of specialisation include the sociology of medicine, mental illness and the psychiatric profession, anthropology of infectious diseases, bioethics and disability studies. She has worked on a number of research projects supported by international agencies like the WHO, DANIDA and the MacArthur Foundation in India. Currently she is engaged in research on gender and disability at the CWDS.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	Deconstructing mental illness:An ethnography of psychiatry women and the family. New Delhi. Zubaan Books, 2008
	Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity: How young people with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India, Renu Addlakha, 2007

GUEST EDITOR

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 15: 2 (May-August 2008), special issue on ‘Disability, Gender and Society’.

MONOGRAPHS

	Health ethics in South-East Asia (Volume 3): Ethical   issues in clinical practice: A qualitative interview study in six Asian countries (with Jens Seeberg). Delhi: World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO Document), 2000 Available online at   << http://www.hum.au.dk/etno/etnojs/volume3.pdf  >
	Urban Leprosy Elimination Initiative. New Delhi: DANLEP, 2003 Available online at << http://www.danlep.org   >
	Towards leprosy elimination in tribal communities: Experiences from Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. (with Jens Seeberg). Delhi: DANLEP, 2003 Available online at << http://www.danlep.org   >>
	Rights and vulnerabilities: A research study of migrant women workers in the informal sector in Delhi (as part of Jagori Research Team).Delhi: Jagori, 2004
	Accessing TB services in a tribal district: The Malkangiri project, Orissa. (with Jens Seeberg)Bhubaneswar (Orissa): DANTB, 2005

RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

	Healthy Sex Life for Visually Challenged Women. In A.K. Mittal (ed) Handbook for Women with Visual Impairment, pp. 60-67. New Delhi: All India Confederation of the Blind (Sponsored by Dr. H.E. Schulze and Marga Schulze Foundation, Germany). 2008.
	Mainstreaming Disability in the Child Rights Agenda. Special issue on Child Rights Infochange Agenda 0-18: 51-52. 2007
	How Young People with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India: Four case studies. Sexuality and disability 25(3):100-113. 2007.
	Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity: How Young People with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India. Delhi: Centre for Women’s Development Studies. Occasional Paper No. 46,  31 p. 2007.
	Nisha: Who would marry someone like me In Abha Bhaiya and Lynn F. Lee (eds.)Unmad: Findings of a research study on women’s mental and emotional crisis: the voice of the subject. New Delhi: Jagori, 1998
	Living with chronic schizophrenia: An ethnographic account of family burden and coping strategies. Indian journal of psychiatry, 41(2): 91-95, 1999
	Global-local dialectic in medico-administrative practice: A case study of poliomyelitis.    Economic and political weekly XXXV (8 and 9): 676-683, 2000
	User configuration and perspective: A case study of the hepatitis-B introductory trial in    East Delhi. (with Aruna Grover). Economic and political weekly XXXV (8 and 9): 736-744, 2000
	Lay and medical diagnoses of psychiatric disorder and the normative construction of femininity.  In Bhargavi V. Davar ed. Mental health from a gender perspective (313-333). Delhi:  Sage Publications, 2001
	Disability and domestic citizenship: Stigma, contagion and the making of the subject (with Veena Das) In Public Culture 13(3): 511-531, 2001
	State legitimacy and social suffering in a modern epidemic: A multi-sited ethnography of an  outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Delhi. In Contributions to Indian Sociology 35  (2:.151-179, 2001
	Family autonomy and patient rights to healthcare in an ‘Asian values’ context (with Jens     Seeberg, Kusum Verma, Manju Mehta and Renuka Duttta. In Folk: Journal of Danish    Ethnographic Society, 45: 87-104, 2003
	Affliction and testimony: A reading of the diary of Parvati Devi. In Indian Journal of gender studies,  12(1): 63-82, 2005
	Child mental health: A neglected area in public health policy. In MICA Communication Review  2(1): 41-46, 2005

KAREN GABRIEL (karengabriel@yahoo.com)

Education
  PhD in Development Studies, Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Netherlands
  M.Phil (Literature), University of Delhi
  Master in Philosophy (MPhil) in Literature from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  Master of Arts in Literature from the Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

Karen Gabriel has been working and writing on cinema, gender and sexuality for several years now. She was awarded the Netherlands government Fellowship to do her doctoral work and was later awarded the Leverhulme Trust Research Grant toward her post-doctoral work. Her current research focuses on the exploring the relations between culture, media and development in the context of contemporary India. She has been teaching at St Stephen’s college, Delhi University for over 12 years.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	‘Cultural Production and Sexual Economies: The Case of Bombay Cinema’, Women’s Studies: A Reader (forthcoming), Malashri Lal (ed.), Kali for Women (Zubaan), 2008
	“Draupadi’s Moment in Sita’s Syntax”, In Search of Sita, Malashri Lal and Namita Ghokale (eds.), Yatra and Penguin 2008
	Gabriel, K. Understanding Cultural Studies, New Delhi: Macmillan, (forthcoming) 2008
	Gabriel, K. A Critical Companion to Jane Eyre, New Delhi: Macmillan, (forthcoming) 2008
	Gabriel, K. Milton and his Poetry, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2004
	Gabriel, K. Gender, Sexuality and the Contemporary Mainstream Bombay Cinema, Delhi: Kali Women Unlimited, 2007
	Gabriel, K. & P.K. Vijayan (eds.). Gender in India: A Concept, its Texts and Contexts, Delhi: Katha, 2007
	Gabriel, K. Imaging a Nation: The Sexual Economies of the Contemporary Mainstream
	Bombay Cinema (1970-2000), Maastricht: Shaker Publishers, 2005

ARTICLES

	“Draupadi's Moment in Sita's Syntax: Violations of the Past and the Construction of Community in Kamal Haasan’s Hey! Ram", in Women and the Politics of Violence, Taisha Abraham (ed.) N. Delhi: Shakti 2002.
	"Designing Desire and Gender in Mainstream Bombay Cinema", in Translating Desire, Brinda Bose (ed.) N. Delhi: Katha 2002.
	“The Importance of being Gandhi: Gendering the National Subject in Bombay Cinema”, in South Asian Masculinities: Context of Change, Sites of Continuity. Radhika Chopra & Caroline & Filippo Osella (eds.) Delhi: Kali 2003.
	“A Nation at War: The Production of the Martial Man in Border and Prahaar”, in Deep Focus, Bangalore: Bangalore Film Society, January - May 2005.
	“Dethroning the Queen: Gender, Sex, Caste and the Bandit Queen” Abhilasha Kumari (ed.) Communicator, Journal of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication Vol. XXXX No. 1 January June 2005
	“Issues in the Analysis of Bombay Cinema”, in Makarand Paranjape et al. (eds.) English Studies, Indian Perspectives, New Delhi: Mantra Books 2005.
	“Adrienne Rich: Sexual Politics and Poetics”, in Representation and Alternate Sexualities, Subhash Chandra, ed. N. Delhi: Allied Publishers 2006.
	“Seeing the Sexual: Mainstream Bombay Cinema and the Organization of Sexuality”, Perspectives from Indian Feminists, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, and the Women’s Studies Development Centre, Delhi University, 2006.
	“The Text and Context of the Bandit Queen”, in Manju Jain (ed.) Film, Literature and Culture, (forthcoming) New Delhi: OUP, 2007.
	“Vigilante Masculinity and the Problem of Heroism” in Exploring Masculinities in India UNIFEM Global Masculinities Series (forthcoming), Sanjay Srivastava & Rahul Roy (eds.) N Delhi: Sage 2007.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

	Leverhulme Trust Research Grant
	DGIS-DPO Doctoral Research Fellowship for four years by The Netherlands government.

SABIHA HUSSAIN

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology) Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.Phil (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.A. (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi

In her Doctoral research she has explored the degree of modernization and social change that has occurred among Muslim women after independence from a gender perspective. Through her findings she tried to unravel various myths and stereotypes related to the backwardness of Muslim women in social, economic and legal spheres. She argued that attributing the backwardness of Muslim women to Islam is a stereotyped explanation; rather a holistic approach which includes the national and international context is required for a better understanding of the issue.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	The Changing Half, Classical Publishing House, New Delhi, 1997.
	Exposing the Myth of Muslim Fertility (2008) Bibliophile South Asia, Delhi.

OCCASIONAL PAPER

	Muslim Women Rights Discourse in Pre-independence period  Occasional Paper No. 43 CWDS, 2006
	Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India, Sabiha Hussain, 2007
	Breaking Stereotypes: Two Generations of Muslim Women: Sabiha Hussain, 2000

RESEARCH PAPERS/ ARTICLES

	Reflections of Islamic Identity, Citizenship Rights  and Gender Justice, Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol. 9 #1 November 2007
	Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India, Pakistan Journal of Women Studies vol. 14, No, 2, Karachi, Pakistan December, 2007.
	Stereotypes:  South Asia  Encyclopedia on Women in Islamic Culture 2 -1-804, February, 2004 Brill Publication, Netherlands
	Hazards of Being A Woman: Right to Health and the Existing Reality Journal of Asian Women Studies, Japan Volume 12 December 2003.

SREELEKHA NAIR

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.Phil (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.A. (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Sreelekha Nair has been working on women in modern professions, within the broad framework of understanding the dynamics and processes. She is a recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship for Doctoral Studies. She was post doctoral researcher of ICSSR-MSH at lab Anthropologie Urbaine at Paris, France.   She is currently engaged in research on the gender dimensions of migration of professional women in India, focussing particularly on the migrant nurses from Kerala in Delhi hospitals. Her publications at various stages include papers on women in professions and data restitution in women’s studies.

Major Publications

RESEARCH PAPERS/ ARTICLES

	Globalization and Livelihood: Perspective of Women Nurses in Delhi in Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 13(4), pp.34-56, Seoul: Asian Center for Women's Studies, 2007
	Rethinking Citizenship, Community and Rights: The Case of Nurses from Kerala in Indian Journal of Gender Studies 14(1), pp.137-156, New Delhi: Sage, 2007

OCCASIONAL PAPER

	Transcending Boundaries: Indian Nurses in Internal and International Migration, Sreelekha Nair, 2007
	A Profession on the Margins: Status Issues in Indian Nursing, Sreelekha Nair and Madelaine Healey, 2006

ACADEMIC AWARDS

	Hermes (Maison des Sciences de L'Homme) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
	Nehru Memorial Doctoral Fellowship

SAVITRI RAY (savitriray@yahoo.com)

Education
   M.A. (Geography) from Centre For the Study of Regional Development, JNU, New Delhi.
   Certificate Course in Gender Issues in Development Planning from Asian Institute of
     Technology, Bangkok

Savitri Ray has 25 years of research and investigation experience in relation to status of women. She has done work on Employment and Income Generation for Rural Women, Rural Energy, Panchayati raj and Migration. Also edited a newsletter for peasant women (Kisanin Manch) and conducted Gender training under NCERT/DIET programme. She has worked as Gender Expert with the Forest Department; Govt. of Haryana during1999-2001 and also evaluated a watershed management programme in the state of Uttranchal during 2003-2005.Areas of interest include panchayati raj, community forestry and issue of female foeticide.

Major Publications

Major contribution made in the following reports:

	Migrant Labour: Gender Dimension.
	Changing Energy Availability and its Impact on Rural Women in India.
	Women and Cultural Values-A case study of Punjab.
	Directory of Women’s Cooperatives in India.
	Voices from Below: Participation of Women in Panchayats.
	Role of Public Agencies as Instruments for Women’s Equality and Development.
	Assessing the Impact of Women’s Decade (1975-85).
	Prepared training manual on Village Entry process/Participatory assessment/Resource Mapping etc.