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Author Writers, Sangtin

Title Playing with Fire : Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Playing with Fire: A Collective Journey across Borders; A Journey of Sangtins; Postscript: NGOs, Global Feminisms, and Collaborative Border Crossings; Notes; Glossary; Selected Bibliography
Summary Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism, and a startling picture emerges of how NGOs both nourish and stifle local struggles for solidarity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181)
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Subject Saṅgatina (Organization)
SUBJECT Saṅgatina (Organization) fast
Subject Women's rights -- India -- Uttar Pradesh
Marginality, Social -- India -- Uttar Pradesh
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Marginality, Social
Women's rights
Feminisme.
Marginaliteit.
India -- Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh.
Form Electronic book
Author Nagar, Richa
ISBN 9780816698271
0816698279