Off the Beaten Track: Rethinking Gender Issues for Indian Women (Oxford India Paperbacks)

290 pages ; 22 cm. I. Beginning With Our Own Lives: A Call for Dowry Boycott II. Rethinking Dowry Boycott III. Dowry Calculations: Daughter's Rights in her Parental Family IV. Knocking at the Portals of Justice: The Struggle for Women's Land Rights V. The Burning of Roop Kanwar VI. Co-ownership Rights for Wives: A Solution Worse than the Problem VII. When Daughters are Unwanted: Sex Determination Tests in India XIII. A Code for Self-Monitoring: Some Thoughts on Activism IX. Violence and the 1989 Election: Implications for Women X. Out of the Zenana Dabba: Strategies for Enhancing Women's Political Representation XI. Women's Marginal Role in Politics XII. Sex Harassment and Slander as Weapons of Subjugation XIII. When India 'Missed' the Universe XIV. Love and Marriage XV. Women, Sex and Marriage: Restraints as a Feminine Strategy XVI. Yes to Sita, No to Ram!: The Continuing Popularity of Sita in India XVII. Who Am I?: Living Identities vs Acquired Ones XVIII. A Horror of 'Isms': Why I do not Call Myself a Feminist.…