{"product_id":"off-the-beaten-track","title":"Off the Beaten Track","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Madhu Kishwar\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2002\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 290\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195668310\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis work is an account of a life of contemplation and tireless striving for the cause of a long-neglected half of humanity. This book will be of interest to those concerned about the status of women in India.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMadhu Kishwar is widely renowned as the founding editor of Manushi, the journal that has played a pioneering role in bringing women's issues to the forefront of intellectual and political discourse in India.  Some of Kishwar's most path-breaking essays have been compiled in this book to provide readers an insight into her position on such issues as dowry, the denial of inheritance rights to women, beauty contests, and the importance of Sita as a cultural ideal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKishwar comes across as deeply reflective, insightful and incisive in her commentary on contemporary India.  She charts her own course without recourse to any of the established ideologies of the age.  Off the Beaten Track is an account of a life of contemplation and tireless striving for the cause of a long-neglected half of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT FROM REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKishwar is known for her free, frank, controversial but original ideas plus a threadbare analysis, almost always on a very different footing from the usual formal and professional academic.  The book is a treasure in the sense that it provides a concinnity of her thoughts in a composite collection.\u003cbr\u003e-Indian Book Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Beginning With Our Own Lives: A Call for Dowry Boycott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. Rethinking Dowry Boycott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. Dowry Calculations: Daughter's Rights in her Parental Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV. Knocking at the Portals of Justice: The Struggle for Women's Land Rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV. The Burning of Roop Kanwar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI. Co-Ownedrship Rights of Wives: A Solution Worse than the Problem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII. When Daughters are Unwsanted: Sex Ddetermination Tests in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII. A Code for Self-Monitoring: Some Thoughts on Activism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX. Violence and the 1989 Elections: Implications for Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX. Out of the Zenana Dabba: Strategies for Enchancing Women's Political Representation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI. Women's Marginal Role in Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII. Sex Harassment and Slander as Weapons of Subjugation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII. When India 'Missed' the Universe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIV. Love and Marriage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXV. Women, Sex and Marriage: Restraint as a Feminine Strategy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVI. Yest to Sita, No to Ram!: The Continuing Popularity of Sita in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVII. Who Am I?: Living Identities vs Acquired Ones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. A Horror of 'Isms': Why I do not Call Myself a Feminist\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Madhu Kishwar \/ Oxford University Press \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153641566576,"sku":"9485","price":24.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/9485.jpg?v=1793911886","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/off-the-beaten-track","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}