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Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India by Amrita Basu
RRP: £30.99Booksplease Price: £29.61This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and... -
Women, Gender and Religious Nationalism by Amrita Basu
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.69This book reflects the changing modalities of Hindu nationalist organizing among women and youth. It provides unique insights into how this immensely powerful political formation has been able to... -
Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India by Amrita Basu 9781107089631
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £69.62This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and... -
Women's Movements in the Global Era: The Power of Local Feminisms by Amrita Basu
Booksplease Price: £50.19This book provides a path-breaking study of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of women's movements in countries throughout the world. Its focus is on the global South, where women's movements... -
The Challenge Of Local Feminisms: Women's Movements In Global Perspective Amrita Basu 9780813326283
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £50.67"A must read for feminist activists, scholars, and policymakers. As this book amply demonstrates, women's movements around the world have much to learn from each other. The Challenge of Local... -
Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India by Amrita Basu 9780520366329
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £71.19Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism... -
Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India by Amrita Basu 9780520338142
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism... -
Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: 12th International Conference, Diagrams 2021, Virtual, September 28-30, 2021, Proceedings by Amrita Basu 9783030860615
Booksplease Price: £90.72This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2021, held virtually in September 2021.The 16 full papers and... -
Justice and the Capabilities Approach Thom Brooks 9781138107731
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.24The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum. Justice and the Capabilities Approach is... -
Caste and Gender in Contemporary India: Power, Privilege and Politics by Supurna Banerjee 9780367733278
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores the intersectional aspects of caste and gender in India that contribute to the multiple marginalities and oppressions of lower castes, with particular reference to Dalits, Muslims... -
Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia Patricia Jeffery 9780415918664
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded... -
Promissory Notes: Women in the Transition to Socialism by Sonia Kruks 9780853457718
Booksplease Price: £18.02Revolutionary socialist movements have held out the promise, in both theory and practice, that women can achieve liberation through their participation in the revolutionary process. But many women in... -
Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World Paola Bacchetta 9780415927789
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51An oft-neglected subject, right-wing women are an important component in understanding the many racist, fascist, and anti-feminist movements of the 20th century. Providing original research on an... -
Women's Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Global Politics Nancy A. Naples 9780415931458
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.10Women's Activism and Globalization is a broad and comprehensive collection that shows how women activists across the globe are responding to the forces of the new world order in their communities... -
Feminist Futures: Reimagining Women, Culture and Development by Debashish Munshi 9781783606399
Booksplease Price: £91.69Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural... -
Global Feminism: Transnational Women's Activism, Organizing, and Human Rights by Myra Marx Ferree
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Explores the social and political developments that have energized movements of global feminism Increasingly feminists around the world have successfully campaigned for recognition of women's full... -
Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia by Humeira Iqtidar 9781108428545
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14What is the relationship between secularization and tolerance? Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between the two, this volume argues... -
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader by Penny A. Weiss
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.45A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings... -
Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice by France Winddance Twine 9780814798553
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the... -
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice Rajini Srikanth 9781138482265
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.44Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines. Within the academic... -
Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice by France Winddance Twine 9780814798546
Booksplease Price: £90.87A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questionshow does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the... -
Feminist Manifestos: A Global Documentary Reader by Penny A. Weiss 9781479871803
RRP: £106.00Booksplease Price: £86.00A wide-reaching collection of groundbreaking feminist documents from around the world Feminist Manifestos is an unprecedented collection of 150 documents from feminist organizations and gatherings... -
Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics by Mujibur Rehman 9780367734688
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India. It discusses a variety of topical... -
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism by Srirupa Roy 9781503636460
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £89.90Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of... -
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism by Srirupa Roy 9781503637986
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of... -
Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India by Laura Dudley Jenkins 9780812250923
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £62.07Hinduism is the largest religion in India, encompassing roughly 80 percent of the population, while 14 percent of the population practices Islam and the remaining 6 percent adheres to other religions... -
Women's NGOs in Pakistan by Afshan Jafar 9780230113206
Booksplease Price: £46.74How do NGOs overcome the suspicion of them as "Western" agents? How do they convince people that contrary to common perceptions, they do not "lead women astray from Islam"? And how, in the context of... -
Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India Aditi Malik 9781009444231
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £73.16Drawing on a rare cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India, Playing with Fire develops a novel explanation about ethnic party violence. Combining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative... -
Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics by Raka Ray 9780742538436
Booksplease Price: £61.62Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964,... -
Reshaping the Holy: Democracy, Development, and Muslim Women in Bangladesh by Professor Elora Shehabuddin 9780231141567
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.62Through extensive field research, Elora Shehabuddin explores the profound implications of women's political and social mobilization for reshaping Islam. Specifically, she examines the lives of Muslim... -
Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present by Eugenia C. DeLamotte
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £68.30This global, multicultural anthology shows how women from some thirty countries, across twenty-six centuries, have found ways to resist oppression and gain power over their lives. Organized around... -
The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future by Martha Nussbaum
Booksplease Price: £29.62While America is focused on religious militancy and terrorism in the Middle East, democracy has been under siege from religious extremism in another critical part of the world. As Martha Nussbaum... -
Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Women and Religious Nationalism in Indian Democracy by Rina Verma Williams 9780197567210
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.65How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant for women, Hindu nationalism, and Indian... -
The Selected Writings of Eqbal Ahmad by Eqbal Ahmad
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.49Activist, journalist, and theorist, Eqbal Ahmad (1934-1999) was admired and consulted by revolutionaries and activists as well as policymakers and academics. In articles and columns published in such...