Disciplinary Dialogues on Social Change : Gender, Early Childhood and Theatre

Nitya Rao is Professor of Gender and Development at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. She has worked exten-sively in the field of women's rights, employment and education for close to three decades. Located mainly in South Asia, her research interests include exploring the gendered changes in land and agrarian relations, migration and livelihoods, education, intra-household relations and identities. She has published extensively on these themes. Her book on the theme of land as a resource in the struggle over gendered identities entitled: Good Women Do Not Inherit Land: Politics of Land and Gender in India was published in 2008, with a second paperback edition in 2012.