Breaking Barriers : Stories of Twelve Women/Parvathi Menon. Reprint.
New Delhi, Left Word Books, 2005, ix, 150 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-87496-47-9.
Breaking Barriers : Stories of Twelve Women/Parvathi Menon. Reprint.
New Delhi, Left Word Books, 2005, ix, 150 p., $11 (pbk). ISBN 81-87496-47-9.
Contents: Preface. Introduction/Brinda Karat. 1. Ahilya Rangnekar. 2. Ila Bhattacharya. 3. Kanak Mukherjee. 4. Lakshmi Sahgal. 5. Mallu Swarajyam. 6. Mangaleswari Deb Burma. 7. Manjari Gupta. 8. Moturu Udayam. 9. Pankaj Acharya. 10. Pappa Umanath. 11. Suseela Gopalan. 12. Vimal Ranadive. Index.
"This book is about twelve women who, in the course of their lives, challenged an exploitative status quo, and worked, independently and together, to build a movement for women's emancipation in India. These are extraordinary stories of extraordinary lives."