The Indian Subcontinent: Gender Matters

Women's Lives

• Education and Literacy
• Occupation
• Marriage and Family
• Public Health
  • Women's Reproductive Health in India

Politics and Government

Economic Factors

Literary Representation and Debate

• Changing Images of Women in South Asian Fiction
• Kamala Das: Creating a Voice
• Meera Mehadevan's Shulamith -- a novel of Judaism in India
• Chitra Fernando's Three Women
• Women Gain Their Voices: Anees Jung's Unveiling India: A Woman's Journey
• The Value of Suffering in Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

Women and the Arts

• Women's Role in the Arts
• Representations of Women

Religion and Philosophy

• Sakti, Suffering, and Power

Related Web resources

• The Fabulous Laboratory (Bombay) This site "focuses on issues relevant to gender, sexuality, popular culture and politics in the Indian subcontinent."

Last Modified 28 February 2004