Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention) (0), Vol. 0 by Raka Ray. Univ of Minnesota Pr, 1999. 217pp. Language: English.

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Title: Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India (Social Movements, Protest, and Contention)
Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081663131X
ISBN 13: 9780816631315
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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The women's movement in India has a long and rich history in which millions of ordinary women live, work, and struggle to survive in order to remake their family, home, and social lives. Whether fighting for safe contraception, literacy, water, and electricity or resisting sexual harassment, a vibrant and active women's movement is thriving in many parts of India today. Fields of Protest explores the political and cultural circumstances under which groups of women organize. Starting with Bombay and Calcutta, Raka Ray discusses the creation of "political fields" -- structured, unequal, and socially constructed political environments within which organizations exist, flourish, or fail. In other words, women's organizations are not autonomous or free agents; rather, they inherit a "field" and its accompanying social relations, and when they act, they act in response to it and within it. Drawing on the literature of both social movements and feminism, Ray analyzes the striking differences between the movements in these two cities. Using an innovative and comparative perspective, Ray offers a unique look at Indian activist women and adds a new dimension to the study of women's movements on a global level.

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Ray is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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