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Playing with fire : feminist thought and activism through seven lives in India / Sangtin Writers, Anupamlata ... [et al.], and Richa Nagar ; foreword by Chandra Talpade Mohanty.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagar, Richa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saṅgatina (Organization).
- Women's rights--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Women's rights.
- Marginality, Social--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Marginality, Social.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Feminist thought and activism through seven lives in India
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism, and a startling picture emerges of how NGOs both nourish and stifle local struggles for solidarity. The Hindi edition of the book, Sangtin Yatra, published in 2004, created controv
- Contents:
- The beginnings of a collective journey
- A very short childhood
- From the streets of Babul to the wetness of Aanchal
- Prisons within prisons : battles stretching from the courtyard to the mind
- Cracking cages, new skies
- Challenges of NGOization and dreams of Sangtin.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Hindi.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181).
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-0882-6
- 0-8166-9827-9
- OCLC:
- 476096073
- Publisher Number:
- heb40258 hdl
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