Women’s Studies in India: A Reader, New Delhi Penguin, 2007(Forthcoming).

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.

Sexing the Foetus: Feminist Politics and Method across Cultures,’ in Thinking with Donna
Haraway: A Reader, ed. Sharon Tamari-Gabrizi, (Forthcoming)

‘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

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

Gender and History

The Women’s Movement in India

Developing a Women’s Studies Programme at the Centre

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
 

Poverty, Gender and Migration in Asia, (co-edited), Sage, Delhi, 2006.

Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual Explorations, Orient Longman, Delhi, 2005.

‘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.

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

Towards a Practice of Democratic Citizenship, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.14, No.1, 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.

Making Good Citizens: Teaching Fundamental Duties in Schools’, Economic and Political Weekly,  21 June 2003.

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.

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.

Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity: How young people with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India, Renu Addlakha, 2007

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

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

Gabriel, K. Milton and his Poetry, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University, 2004.

Gabriel, K. Imaging a Nation: The Sexual Economies of the Contemporary Mainstream Bombay Cinema (1970-2000), Maastricht: Shaker Publishers, 2005.

Gabriel, K. & P.K. Vijayan (eds.). Gender in India: A Concept, its Texts and Contexts, Delhi: Katha, (forthcoming), 2007.

Gabriel, K. Gender, Sexuality and the Contemporary Mainstream Bombay Cinema, Delhi: Kali Women Unlimited, (forthcoming) 2007

Gabriel, K. A Critical Companion to Jane Eyre, New Delhi: Macmillan, (forthcoming) 2008

Gabriel, K. Understanding Cultural Studies, New Delhi: Macmillan, (forthcoming) 2008

“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.

Leverhulme Trust Research Grant

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nehru Memorial Doctoral Fellowship

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

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.

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.

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

Parimala V. Rao has worked on ‘The Emergence of the Concept of Hindu Rashtra in the Nineteenth Century Maharashtra’ for her PhD and has written on class, caste, gender and Hindutva in the nationalist discourse in western India. She has written on Women’s Education, Women as Indirect beneficiaries in Regional Identity formation in Princely Mysore1860-1920. She was the scrutinizer for the History textbook of the tenth standard and a Member of the Review Committee for the Social Science school text books of fifth, to ninth Standards for the government of Karnataka during 2003-2004.

She is currently doing research on ‘Heterodoxy and the idea of women as independent entities: A case study of Kannada literature- 5^th to 12^th centuries.’ The study attempts to critically analyse the long drawn process of grafting patriarchy on matriarchal megalithic south Indian traditions. The sources for the study are the early Kannada literature and the inscriptions.

‘Educating Women, How and How much? Tilak’s Ideas on Women’s Educations.’ In S. Bhattacharya, (Ed) Education and the Disprivileged: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (New Delhi, Orient Longman, 2001)
 

Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the Non-Brahman Movement.’ In I. Tirumali and Dr. Brahmanand (Eds) Repressed Discourses in Modern Indian History (New Delhi Bibliomatrix, 2004)
 

‘Women in the nationalist discourse: A case study of Tilak’s Approach to Women’s Education and Emancipation.’ In S. Bhattacharya (Ed) Development of Modern Indian Thought and the Social Sciences (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007)
 

Caste and Education in the Social Consciousness of the Elite in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century India: A Case Study of Maharashtra. In S. Bhattacharya (Ed) Social Consciousness and Culture in Modern India. (New Delhi, Manohar, Forthcoming. 2008)
 

Parimala V. Rao (Ed) Religion, State and Civil Society. Mumbai, VAK, 2005.

‘Women’s Education and the Nationalist Response in Western India: Part I- Basic Education’ in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 14: 2 (2007)
 

‘Women as Indirect Beneficiaries in Elite Conflict in Princely Mysore’ in The Indian Historical Review XXXV No 1 (January 2008)
 

‘Women’s Education and the Nationalist Response in Western India: Part II- Higher Education’ Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 15:1(2008)
 

‘Educating Women and Non-Brahmins as loss of nationality: Bal Gangadhar Tilak and the Nationalist Agenda in Maharashtra,’ Occasional Paper-, New Delhi, Centre for Women’s Development Studies -2008
 

‘Nationalism and the visibility of women in public space: Tilak’s criticism of Rakhmabai and Ramabai,’ under publication by The Indian Historical Review  (March  2008)