GENDER STUDIES FROM PERMANENT BLACK

We've published some of India's most highly reputed scholars on gender. Permanent Black's gender studies list traverses law, culture, sexuality. See below.

Meera Kosambi
CROSSING THRESHOLDS
Feminist Essays in Social History
HB/ 350PP + 7 B/W PICTURES / RS 695.00 / WORLD RIGHTS

Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
THE SCANDAL OF THE STATE
Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India
HB/ 350PP/ RS 595.00

Nivedita Menon
RECOVERING SUBVERSION
Feminist Politics Beyond the Law
HB / 275PP / RS 595.00 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS / 2004

Charu Gupta
SEXUALITY, OBSCENITY, COMMUNITY
Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India
HB / 400PP, 30 ILLUSTR. / RS 350 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS / 2005

Tanika Sarkar
HINDU WIFE, HINDU NATION
Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism
PB/ 280PP / RS 295 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Ratna Kapur
EROTIC JUSTICE
Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
HB/ LARGE FORMAT / 210PP / RS 595.00 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Jörg Fisch
IMMOLATING WOMEN
A Global History of Widow-burning from Ancient Times to the Present
PB/ 600PP, + 25 B-W PIX / RS 495.00/ SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jeganathan, editors
SUBALTERN STUDIES XI
Community, Gender and Violence
PB/ 360 PP / RS 325.00 / SOUTH ASIA RIGHTS

Nazir Ahmed
THE BRIDE’S MIRROR
a translation by G.E. Ward of the first Urdu bestseller, Mirat ul-Arus
by Maulvi Nazir Ahmad, with an Afterword by Frances W. Pritchett
HB / 250PP / RS 350.00 / WORLD RIGHTS

Meera Kosambi, editor and translator
RETURNING THE AMERICAN GAZE
Pandita Ramabai’s The Peoples of the United States (1889)
HB/ 300PP + 4 B/W PICTURES / RS 595.00

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