Negotiating Complexities (A Collection of Feminist Essays)

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The book is a collection of essays written over the last ten years and within different historical contexts. The essays cover a range of issues pertaining to women such as the various dimensions of displacement and its impact on women, religious fundamentalism, gender mainstreaming and its implications, the gendered impact of disasters and the cultural aspects of religion - whether these can be potentially liberating for women. Each of the essays are stand alone pieces, but they retain a basic continuity in terms of the theme as well as the perspectives that frame them. Women's struggle for their rights as articulated by women's movements in India and elsewhere, and other social movements emphasising justice and equality, provide an analytical lens for these essays. This lens includes patriarchies as a systemic given and tries to examine the workings of patriarchies in the course of various social developments. Feminist scholarship and activism informs the book right through. The book will hopefully reach out to a wide cross section of people across the activist and academic spectrum and contribute to a collective effort to negotiate with the many complexities of modernisation and development.

BINA SRINIVASAN is a feminist writer and researcher. She has worked intensively with women's movements both nationally and internationally. She worked with an organisation called 'Swashraya' which focussed on women in shanty towns. This gave her insights into the lives of the urban poor in Indian cities. It also brought her to look at issues of displacement and its specific impact on women. Through research she looked more closely at other issues like violence against women, impact of conflict and fundamentalism on women. For the research she has received various national and international fellowships. She has travelled extensively and is familiar with issues in South Asia. She is also part of the Co-ordination Group of the Feminist Dialogues a meeting of transnational feminists that usually takes place before the World Social Forum. She is currently working on women who have been internally displaced due to conflict.