Category: Books

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Women’s Agenda in the UN: To Beijing and Beyond

Women’s Agenda in the UN: To Beijing and Beyond Publication Authors: Lucy Carroll (ed) , WLUML (co-published WRAG-WLUML Bombay). Date: March 2004 Number of pages: 90 This kit provides information on the existing processes and how NGOs can intervene/participate in the review – whether they choose to stay at home, participate in the UN processes...

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Imagined citizenship: Women, State and Politics in Pakistan

Imagined citizenship: Women, State and Politics in Pakistan Publication Author: Farida Shaheed Date: 2002 Number of pages: 196 This publication is the full Pakistan Country Report of the regional research study ‘Women and Governance in South Asia: Re-Imagining the State.’ The study aimed to understand the nature of, and impediments to, women’s participation in political...

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Sultana’s Dream (Farsi)

Sultana’s Dream (Farsi) Publication Author: Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, translated by Behdokht Roshdiyeh. Date: 2000 Number of pages: 40 The first Feminist utopia to be published in the sub-continent this novel, which was first published in 1905 in Bangla by Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain, a Bengali Muslim novelist and social reformer, uses gender role reversal...