[Cover page of ‘First National Conference of Sex Workers’, downloaded from the Feminist Law Archives (http://feministlawarchives.pldindia.org)] [1]

The Sex

1. The Event

On the 4^th of September 1987, Roop Kanwar (1969-1987), an Indian Rajput woman, was compelled to immolate herself in the village

This blog is a summary of a forthcoming encyclopedia entry titled ‘Postcolonial Feminism and Welfare Reform.’ It explores how postcolonial feminist scholarship has shaped, responded to, and interrogated reforms aimed at addressing

Global History and the Politics of Language: Some Preliminary Reflections

By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Tahzib-i nisvan (Volume 35, Issue 19) [1932] EAP566/2/1/21/19[1]

This blog reflects upon the relationship between the act of doing global history and the politics of

Introduction

She has always been there.

Between

Trauma and healing
Destruction and birth
Memories and new adventures
The

Women, Work, and ‘Development’ in Post-independent India – Part I

By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Introduction

This blog discusses how Indian women’s unrecognised ‘domestic’ labour, the question of environmental degradation and the economized idea of ‘development’ are integrally related, and therefore

In Her Own Right: Shirley Graham Du Bois in Ghana

 By Dr Nicole Gipson

Portrait in profile of Shirley Graham

The Gandhian Legacy of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was an Indian anticolonial feminist activist, a social worker, and a social reformer. She revolutionized the Indian handloom and textile industry, and with that rural women’s livelihood.