A volume of three street plays from the women’s movement, written in the 1980s and widely performed as part of the vibrant cultural activism of the time, Giving Away the Girl and The monkey dance are both anti-dowry plays. Why all this bloodshed? was written in the wake of the landmark Shah Bano case in the mid-80s, centring around a Muslim woman’s right to maintenance. All the plays remain remarkably relevant, opening up key issues of the movement in a ...
The essays put together in this volume are the proceedings of a seminar on ‘Globalizing Women’, organized by the School of Women’s organized by the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, in early 2001. The idea behind the seminar was to assess how women are involved in and affected by the profound economic, political and cultural changes that have been going on in India for more than a decade, under the name of globalization. In a country like ...
This volume is the outcome of a project under the Human Rights Project Fund of the foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK, organized by the British Council to create awareness about the one lakh street and disabled children in Kolkata who are deprived of their basic rights. Fifty-five young people participated in a photography workshop, after which they went out and took their own photographs of daily life in the city, photographs with a distinctive perspective all ...
In 1999, the West Bengal Commission for Women was entrusted by the State government to explore the social and human problem of desti5tute Bengali women, mostly wido3es, eking out a fragile existence in the ancient pilgrim town of Brindaban, in Uttar Pradesh. The Report prepared by the Committee set up for this purpose, of which the author was a member, forms the core of this book. However, the author has added to it important historical and analytical material ...