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WOMEN'S STUDIES IN INDIA -
A READER. edited by
Mary E. John
[available with Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2008]
 Women's
studies first emerged in India during the 1970s as a forceful
critique of those processes that had made women invisible after
independence - invisible not only to society and the state, but
also to higher education and its disciplines. Since that
beginning, so much has happened in this already vast field that
it would be hard to find a major issue or subject that has not
been addressed by scholars and activists.
This comprehensive reader
sets out to provide a map of the development of women's studies
and the ever expanding terrain that it has been investigating.
The introduction explores the growth of the field from the
upheavals of the 1970s to the transformed conjunctures of the
1990s. In the process, the often elusive relationships between
women's studies, the women's movement, and the structures of
higher education are highlighted. Over eighty edited essays have
been brought together in this single volume under distinct
thematic clusters - from the new beginnings of the 1970s to
politics, history, development, violence, the law, education,
health, family and household, caste and tribe, religion and
communalism, sexualities, and literature and the media. This
reader is for both newcomers to women's studies and for those
who have long been part of it.
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