Women and Society in India

By Neera Desai

Book by Desai, Neera, Krishnaraj, M. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8120201884
• ISBN13: 9788120201880
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: South Asia Books
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book,a treasure house on women's struggle.

I read this book way back in the early 90s. And I still find it to be one of the comprehensive coverages, in the entire literature of women's studies in India. This is an edited book or rather a collective endeavour of leading women scholars and activists. It has chapters on culture, society, education, economy, politics, etc. Each of the chapters are well written, with solid research. Overall it is an interesting book, written keeping lay readers in mind. But it is no compromise on the academic rigour, perspicacity, and the rootedness in women's movement.The editors or collective writers, Neera Desai and Maitreyi Krishnaraj are the pillars of women's studies and women's movement in India.I have had the privilege of meeting both of them in India. Infact, Neera Desai was my M.Phil Dissertation examiner. And when I met her after she had examined my thesis, in the World Congress of Sociology in New Delhi; she had an interesting thing to tell me. She told me that she tried to enquire from some of her friends at my University (JNU) whether I was a man or a woman.For she felt a woman writing this thesis of mine. And she was happy that a man had such an affinity with women's issues. It is blessings and encouragement of such people which made me write four books on women in India