Ebook {Epub PDF} Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Womens Movement in India by Ritu Menon

MAKING A DIFFERENCE: MEMOIRS FROM THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN INDIA by Ritu Menon Women Unlimited, , pp., March , volume 36, No 3 When one considers the fact that the autobiography or memoir as a literary form is predicated upon the sense of an individuated self that emerged with modernity, one must wonder, is ‘feminist memoir’ a contradiction in terms? Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Women's Movement in India does not answer those questions. As the title suggests, it is a compilation of personal accounts from some of Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. Twenty memoirs of such exceptional Indian women who have fought for women's rights for years — doggedly, persistently, deeply valuing the creative powers of women — are presented in Making a Difference: Memoirs from the Women's Movement in India. A landmark event in feminist publishing, this collection of essays presents the lives of some Indian feminists who have worked across class .

Heritage can be understood as a practice of memory: a process whereby the past is selectively used for contemporary cultural and ideological imperatives, often to create national, ethnic, religious, or cultural belonging. Memory can be institutionalised, and through this process it can lose its vital character. Urvashi and Ritu Menon jointly wrote a monograph, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South, and also jointly received the Padma Shri, the highest civilian honour awarded by the Indian government, for their work in feminist publishing. Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women in along with Urvashi Butalia. In , she founded. INDIA CURRENTS® (ISSN X) is published monthly (except Dec/Jan, which is a combined issue) for $ per year by India Currents, Lundy Ave., Ste , San Jose, CA

Making a Difference: Memoirs From the Women's Movement in India By: Menon, Ritu (ed). Material type: Book Publisher: New Delhi Women Unlimited Description: Pb. ISBN: The India Diversity Job Fair (IDJF), presented by Zee Entertainment Enterprises, which concluded recently, was a mega diversity job fair organised with the objective of boosting corporate India’s diversity hiring. With participation from 30 Diversity Hiring Partners, the virtual fair received over 5, registrations for more than vacancies. The two-day event was aimed . Borders and Boundaries - How Women Experienced the Partition of India, Ritu Menon, Kamla Bhasin Practical Techniques for Groundwater Soil Remediation, Evan K. Nyer X Freakonomics - A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner.