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A Monsoon of Music by Mitra Phukan
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932441Author Mitra PhukanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
The Search by Shaheen Akhtar
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss a young researcher arrives on the... -
From Possession to Freedom - The Journey of Nili-Nilakeci by R. Umamaheshwari
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The Tamil text Nilakeci, published between the first and fifth centuries, deals with Jaina philosophy through the use of an unusual literary technique: retrieving a pey, or possessing spirit (usually... -
Of the Nation Born - The Bangladesh Papers by Meghna Guhathakurta 9789384757793
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £24.13Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Of the Nation Born takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling... -
Close To Home by Parvati Sharma 9789383074822
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £5.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383074822Author Parvati SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint ZubaanPublisher Zubaan -
Crafting the Word - Writings from Manipur by Thingnam Anjuli Samom 9789385932809
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.59Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in eighth century AD. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that women... -
Organizing Empire Individualism, Collective Agency and India by Purnima Bose 9788189884017
Booksplease Price: £11.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189884017Author Purnima BoseFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Mannequin - Working Women in India`s Glamour Industry Manjima Bhattacharya 9789385932229
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932229Author Manjima BhattacharyaFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
A Difficult Transition - The Nepal Papers Mandira Sharma 9789385932052
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.92Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its... -
No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy by Chaynika Shah
Booksplease Price: £25.43How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy answers these questions by analyzing... -
A Foot in the Door – Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu by Jayshree Mangubhai
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.05The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their... -
The Search for Justice – The Sri Lanka Papers by Kumari Jayawardena
Booksplease Price: £41.13At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In... -
Rewriting History – The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai by Uma Chakravarti
Booksplease Price: £27.15Pandita Ramabai was one of India's earliest feminists. Honored with the title of Saraswati in Calcutta in 1879, she soon alienated the men who had initially supported her. A high-caste Hindu widow,... -
Writing Caste/Writing Gender - Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios by Sharmila Rege
Booksplease Price: £27.15A pathbreaking study of Dalit women's writings and lives, Writing Caste/Writing Gender offers a powerful counternarrative to mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the... -
No Ghosts in This City: And Other Short Stories by Uddipana Goswami
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £9.70The powerful short stories in this collection are set against - and frequently driven by - the picturesque yet often violent backdrop of Assam, a province in India's northeast. In one, a young man... -
Spectacles of Blood – A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films by Swaralipi Nandi 9789381017159
Booksplease Price: £27.80This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showing how the cinema challenges, normalizes, or contests these major... -
The Fear That Stalks Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces by Sara Pilot
Booksplease Price: £21.53What are the underlying causes and consequences of gender-based violence in public spaces? Who defines what comprises the "public space" - and why are those spaces so often barred not only to women,... -
From Cork to Calcutta - My Mother's Story by Milty Bose
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass-a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she... -
Nine Degrees of Justice - New Perspectives on Violence Against Women in India by Bishakha Datta
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £20.58From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati - self-immolation - feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved to a wider terrain that includes issues rarely considered in the... -
The Business of Sex by Laxmi Murthy
Booksplease Price: £31.89Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of groundbreaking, previously unpublished essays, The Business of Sex corrects this lacuna. Moving... -
Vikram and the Vampire Natasha Sharma 9789384757649
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.46King Vikram has a devil of a dilemma! In order to gain power and wealth beyond his wildest dreams, he must deliver a corpse to the sorcerer Shaitanish. The only problem with this simple task is that... -
Bitter Wormwood Easterine Kire 9789381017029
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.48Kohima, 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... -
Genderscapes Revisioning Natural Resource Management by Sumi Krishna
Booksplease Price: £27.15Even 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... -
Squiggle Gets Stuck: All about muddled sentences by Natasha Sharma
Booksplease Price: £11.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789384757960Author Natasha SharmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Motherhood and Choice - Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women Amrita Nandy 9789385932045
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood and... -
Once Upon a Life – Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags: A Memoir by Temsula Ao
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.92Born in 1945 in the Assamese town of Jorhat, Temsula Ao lost both her parents in quick succession when she was young. Left to fend for themselves, she and her five siblings ran wild, skipping school... -
A Family Secret: And Other Stories by Bijoya Sawian
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £9.78On a rainy afternoon in Cherrapunji, the postman arrives with a letter for fourteen-year-old Saphira, and her life will never be the same. Dalinia, meanwhile, seems to have the perfect life:... -
The Song Seekers by Saswati Sengupta 9789381017036
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.45In "The Song Seekers", the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the... -
Fence by Ila Arab Mehta
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.92Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author, perhaps most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation by Rita Kothari of her beautiful and skillfully crafted novel... -
Waiting - A Collection of Stories by Nighat Gandhi
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young... -
The Empty Room Sadia Abbas 9789385932267
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her... -
Words to Win - The Making of a Modern Autobiography Tanika Sarkar 9789381017906
Booksplease Price: £27.15The first full-length autobiography in Bengali, Amar Jiban (My Life) was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife named Rashundari Debi. Published in 1868 when she... -
Mahuldiha Days Anita Agnihotri 9789385932175
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932175Author Anita AgnihotriFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Swarnalata Fourth edition by Tilottoma Misra
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932458Author Tilottoma MisraFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Of Mothers and others - Stories, Essays, Poems by Jaishree Misra
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.14"Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself," writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduction to this unique volume. "We neglect mothers at... -
Doing Time with Nehru - The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family by Yin Marsh
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.48It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in! Get on the floor!" A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men,... -
Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assosted by N. Sarojini
Booksplease Price: £28.55Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of... -
The Power to Forgive: And Other Stories by Avinuo Kire
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.52In 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... -
Picture This! – Painting the Women′s Movement by Radhaben Garwa
Booksplease Price: £46.13From 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 -... -
Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India by Ashild Kolas
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £23.83In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend...