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Women Studies

Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry

Bhattacharya Manjima

ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...

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Gender Studies

Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India

Hoenig Patrick, Singh Navsharan

ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...

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Fiction

Women Studies

Centrepiece Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India

Singh Parismita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932410, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, June 2018
200 pp., 24.8x18.4 cm, colour illus. throughout

Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the northeast". Many stereotype it as a region of conflict...

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Biography & Memoires

Women Studies

Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison

Habib Anjum Zamarud

ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...

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Women Studies

Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India

Kolas Ashild

ISBN: HB: 9789385932304, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In 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 to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...

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Women Studies

Motherhood and Choice Feminist Debates on Non-Normative Motherhood

Nandy Amrita

ISBN: HB: 9789385932045, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
320 pp., 21.6x14 cm

As 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 non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

New Intimacies, Old Desires Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times

Sircar Oishik, Jain Dipika

ISBN: HB: 9789384757748, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
480 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the last fifteen years, great strides have been made in advancing the rights of queer people. In the same period that these victories have been secured by queer movements, we've seen the rise of crony capitalism, violent consequences of the war on...

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General

Feminist Subversion and Complicity Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

Mukhopadhyay Maitrayee

ISBN: HB: 9789385932168, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Feminist Subversion and Complicity" brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who, while working at diverse kinds of institutions, are all closely involved in the intersection of development policy...

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General

Fault Lines of History The India Papers II

Chakravarti Uma

ISBN: HB: 9789385932083, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
326 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"Fault Lines of History" is the second volume in Zubaan's Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, to focus on India. This volume addresses the question of state impunity, arguing that when it comes to the violation of human and civil right...

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Fiction

Women Studies

India and Beyond The Selected Writings of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Chattopadhyay Kamaladevi

ISBN: HB: 9789384757830, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 12 halftones

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a remarkable woman – a gifted writer and an activist central to the making of the modern Indian nation. India's representative to the Global South for many years after independence, Kamaladevi figured prominently in discu...

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