Alimentary Tracts: Appetites, Aversions, and the Postcolonial
This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference By Parama Roy Duke University Press The introduction to Alimentary Tracts begins with a Salman Rushdie quote about peppercorns and includes the phrase “symbolic anthropophagy.” Similarly … Continue reading
Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights
This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference Edited by Tamara Harvey, Paula Ruth Gilbert,Debra Bergoffen, Connie L. McNeely Routledge Confronting Global Gender Justice provides the reader a refreshing survey, albeit difficult to digest at times, … Continue reading
Tales from the Yoga Studio
By Rain Mitchell Plume This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference Tales from the Yoga Studio is, in many ways, the typical story of White women who discover Eastern philosophy (in this case, … Continue reading
Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity
This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference By Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Bishnupriya Dutt Sage Publications In its very fragmentariness, Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity serves as an alternative to the … Continue reading
Seeds of Change
I found Dr. Vandana Shiva’s first book, or rather I found a Xerox copy of her first book, taped together and lovely highlighted with notes (published in 1988), on a … Continue reading
Braking News: 1 Bus, 2 Girls, 15 Thousand Kilometers, 715 Million Votes
This review originally appeared in Elevate Difference By Sunetra Choudhury Hatchette India Sunetra Choudhury’sBraking News takes the reader on a trip across India to find the elusive Indian voter in both cities and … Continue reading
Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity
By Pavan K. Varma Penguin Books Pavan K. Varma’s most recent book, Becoming Indian, argues that cultural freedom has eluded formerly colonized nations, specifically India. He sees a need for a cultural … Continue reading
Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives
Edited by Elaine Enarson, P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti Sage Publications Women, Gender and Disaster provides a comprehensive overview of the role gender plays in various disaster situations. Case studies and essays are divided into … Continue reading
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