Ritu menon
Ritu Menon is an Indian writer , scholar, publisher, and feminist . In 1984 she founded India's first feminist publisher Kali for Woman together with Urvashi Butalia .
In 2003, the two founders separated amicably. While Urvashi Butalia continued to work with her start-up, Zubaan Books , Ritu Menon now runs Womans Unlimited .
Publications
- Ritu Menon, Kamla Bhasin: Recovery, Rupture, Resistance: Indian State and Abduction of Women during Partition , in Economic and Political Weekly, April 24, 1993.
- Ritu Menon, Urvashi Butalia: Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South. Bellagio 1995, Bellagio Publishing Network
- Ritu Menon, Florence Howe (Ed.): Publishing for Social Change . New Delhi and New York 1996
- Ritu Menon, Kamla Bhasin, Nighat Said Khan (eds.): Against All Odds. Kali for Woman, 1996
- Ritu Menon, Kamla Bhasin: Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition . Piscataway, NJ 1998; Rutgers University Press
- Reproducing the Legitimate Community: Secularity, Sexuality, and the State in Postpartition India . in Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia , edited by Patricia Jeffrey and Amrita Basu. London 1998, Routledge
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://halleinstitute.emory.edu/events/distinguishedfellows/menon.html
- ^ Sven Hansen: India. Which gives India's women a voice , on the website of the Gunda Werner Institute of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, accessed on January 1, 2013
Web links
In English
- Short biography on Emory University website , accessed January 1, 2013
- Short biography at Womans World , accessed January 1, 2013
- Short biography at WomanUnlimited , accessed January 1, 2013
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menon, ritu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian author, publisher, scholar and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | India |