Nahi Samanya Nari

This collection brings together fifty thoughtful essays across diverse fields of gender studies, a discipline that seeks to establish universal gender equality through the creation of a new, gender-just system of knowledge, and it is with the intention of participating in this very endeavour that the present volume has come into being; divided into nine sections, the book explores many long-ignored chapters of women’s struggles—often right before our eyes yet overlooked—by making visible women’s roles and contributions in history and thereby rewriting historical narratives, exposing the gender politics that shape representations of women in literature, reassessing women’s creative work, examining women’s contributions to theatre and their portrayal in the media, highlighting their long-denied role in scientific pursuits, analysing the processes of gender construction in society, engaging in debates on empowerment, globalisation, and related theoretical issues from a feminist perspective, discussing women’s participation and comfort in the workplace, and presenting accounts of Muslim women, marginalised women pushed to the edges of society, their suffering and everyday battles for survival, as well as women’s daily lives; enriched with rare photographs and significant illustrations, this book is indispensable for students and researchers engaged in gender studies and will also provide rich intellectual stimulus for general readers.