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Fence
ISBN: PB: 9789383074877, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
200 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation of her beautiful and skillfully crafted novel Fence, we meet Fateema Lokhandwala, a young Muslim woman in present-day Guj...
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£14,50
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Power to Forgive And Other Stories
ISBN: PB: 9789383074921, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
160 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
In this collection of short stories, Avinuo Kire tells powerful tales of women overcoming violence and repression. In "The Power to Forgive", many of the stories are told against the backdrop of the struggle for Nagaland's independence from India. Ye...
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When the River Sleeps
ISBN: PB: 9789383074891, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
264 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams, a place from which he will be able to wrest a stone that will give him untold power. His is a dangerous quest – not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses, and demon...
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£16,00
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Bitter Wormwood
ISBN: PB: 9789381017029, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2015
276 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Kohima, 2007. A young man has just been gunned down in cold blood – the latest casualty in the conflict that has brutalized the people of Nagaland, in the neglected northeastern corner of India. Rich in culture and history, "Bitter Wormwood" traces t...
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Dalit Women Speak Out Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
ISBN: PB: 9789383074761, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
466 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
The right to equality regardless of gender or caste is fundamental in India. Yet even the Indian government has acknowledged that the institutional forces arrayed against this right are powerful – and, what's more, that they shape people's mindsets i...
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£28,00
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Motherwit
ISBN: PB: 9789381017623, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
288 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Using the classic short story form with surprise endings to great effect, Urmila Pawar brings to life strong and clever women from all classes of society: heroines who are brave in the face of caste oppression, strong in opposing their in-laws, defia...
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We Also Made History Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
ISBN: PB: 9789383074747, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
372 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 8 halftones
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women's participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early...
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£24,00
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Genderscapes Revisioning Natural Resource Management
ISBN: PB: 9789383074754, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
476 pp., 22.3x14.7 cm
Even in a realm that would seem to be as far removed from issues of gender as natural resource management, gender bias is pernicious and persistent, especially in India. Genderscapes looks at the reasons for this bias from a number of angles, includi...
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£26,50
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Picture This! Painting the Women's Movement
ISBN: HB: 9789381017685, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
200 pp., 21.5x27.9 cm, 200 colour plates
From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings. Her images – more than two hundred of them gathered here – tell...
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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