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    <![CDATA[Embodiment, Gender and Identity: Women in Contemporary India]]>
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    <![CDATA[This is a book about embodiment and identity in the context of particular women’s lives in an urban setting. It is concerned with the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women’s lives in contemporary, urban India. The focus on embodiment is mediated by gender and class, two critical elements that constitute identity in relation to embodiment. The study is based on material collected from interviews with working class women in an urban slum and with professional, upper class women, with young women in secondary schools and from material from a women’s magazine. Apart from theoretical considerations, the book gives centrality to women’s voice in the construction of her identity as an embodied being, located in particular socio-economic settings in urban India. The book also attempts to provide an understanding of resistance in the context of women’s lives, both as a conceptual tool and a strategy in everyday life.]]>
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    <![CDATA[This book contains fifteen essays which cover a wide range of subjects, like, the notion of space in relation to female identity; the female body; Indian feminist movements Western views on prostitution socio-historical study of a scandal, nation as woman, women, sex and marriage etc.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Focusing on Asian women's experience of immigration, the contributions in this book collectively highlight the gendered dimension of migration, the different experiences of men to women and the subsequent consequences for women within the constraints of the root culture and the strategies deployed to make life more bearable in the host country.       The central theme discussed is the fact that immigrant women are unable to completely break away from the chains of traditional patriarchal norms, imposed by either their host country or root culture.       Immigrant women's identity is, therefore, far more fluid and regulated by both social and state insitutions they encounter.]]>
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    <![CDATA[This book explores the complex relationship between ideas, institutions, and the people in them by looking at the Rishi Valley Schol in Andhra Pradesh, considered the hallmark of progressive education. This edition includes a new introduction that rethinks ideas in school education in light of present political and social realities.]]>
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