The Issues at Stake

This book examines a wide range of issues and their underlying ideologies taken up by the third wave of the women’s movement in India, over the last decade and a half. Documenting the movement from within, the authors look at the varied methods used by the movement in different part of the country, its demands and actions, its heartache and joys. Placing the present phase of movement in a historical perspective, Gandhi and shah briefly examine the trajectory form the early reform movements and the nationalist period, through the unrest of the 60s to the present day.