A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras - Paperback
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A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras
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A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF A HOUSEWIFE'S QUEST FOR INTELLECTUAL GROWTH AND HER ABILITY TO RESIST TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORTHODOXIES IN MADRAS VIA WRITING AND READING.
In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911-2007), Kalpana Karunakaran achieves the remarkable: capturing the singularity of an exceptional woman,...
Kalpana Karunakaran is Associate Professor in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT Madras. Her research and writings are in the intersecting fields of gender, poverty, microcredit, women's work in the informal sector, women's trade unions and collective action in solidarity-based movements. She is currently serving as President of the Indian Association for Women's Studies (IAWS)...
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