In this paper, historical analysis and qualitative fieldwork are combined to question the belief
that recent efforts in Kerala to induct women into local governance and mobilize poor …

The Indian state treated the partition of Punjab as a 'national disaster'and training for refugee
women was deemed essential to restore the social landscape; yet the kind of help it offered …

This paper aims to explore some of the manifold and changing links that official Pakistani
state discourses forged between women and work from the 1940s to the late 2000s. The …

According to Foucault, space is key to disciplinary technologies:'discipline proceeds from an
organization of individuals in space, and it requires a specific enclosure of space'(cited in …

This paper brings forth cases of women in rural South Punjab, Pakistan who are exercising
agency in even the most patriarchal areas in a Muslim country. Central to this paper is two …

This paper reflects on women's presence in politics in Kerala where neoliberalised welfare
now targets a very large number of women and inducts them into local governance. Offering …

This article focuses on the changing work profile of migrant women and the avenues
available to them. The central question posed is whether women's posturban continuation in …

By examining women's active participation in a range of social movements over many
decades in Uttarakhand Himalayas, the paper first explores what is it about this place that …

The Power of Women's Organizing is a remarkable work that offers a glimpse into the
women's movement outside the United States. Author Mangala Subramaniam addresses the …

In this article I analyse the structural and cultural conditions of low-caste women's political
agency in urban north India. Whereas in Western feminist political theory, the sexual division …