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Further Reading - India

http://www.undp.org.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=547&...
Recasting the gender development indices and the gender empowerment measure for India

http://www.nfhsindia.org/NFHS-3%20Data/Press%20Briefing%20Kit/Domestic%2...
The NFHS III report on violence against women in India

http://medind.nic.in/iaj/t08/i2/iajt08i2p73.pdf
Detailed analysis of domestic violence in India in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine (2008)

http://lawandotherthings.blogspot.com/2007/10/domestic-violence-act-one-...
Domestic violence laws: one year on

http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/moreinfo.php?txt_searchstring=12999
From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India – Kannabiran, Kalpana & Menon, Ritu (2007)

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/151575/1/
Sex-selective abortions in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies, Tulsi Patel (Ed.), Delhi, California & London, Sage Publications, 2007

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/150635/1/
Urban Women in Contemporary India, A Reader, Rehana Ghadially (ed), Sage Publications, 2007

http://sad.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/2/1/1
Amaresh Dubey, Does Intra-household discrimination account for the bulk of India’s ‘Missing Women’? – Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1-18 (2007)

http://jagori.org/our-activities/resource-centre/new-arrivals-list-of-ja...
Latest readings on violence against women

http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/moreinfo.php?txt_searchstring=14042
Domestic Violence: Issues and Perspectives, Shenoy, M, Eastern Book Corporation, 2007

http://www.infochangeindia.org/WomenItop.jsp?section_idv=1
Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act

http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/08/12/stories/2007081250060300.htm
Sixty years of India’s independence: What does it mean to women?

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/217535.html
Law and sex selection

http://www.koed.hu/sw249/sunita.pdf
Challenges to overcome violence against women

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid...
Physical spousal violence in India: Some risk factors

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/135011/1/8037
Gender audit in budgets with respect to women’s health

http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/14/stories/2007081453680400.htm
Domestic violence cases in the capital

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/137981/1/
Missing women and India’s religious demography

http://iqballatif.newsvine.com/_news/2007/09/01/935363-the-king-of-spade...
Selective elimination of female foetuses

http://www.hindustantimes.in/news/181_1953042,00300006.htm
Critical analysis of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/26224.html
Legal definition of rape

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/26415.html
Editorial on the legal definition of rape

http://www.hindu.com/mag/2007/03/18/stories/2007031800040400.htm
Female foeticide

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=E
40D1CF167341F64505D7DD2B75F4551.tomcat1?fromPage=online&aid=904588
Risk and protective factors for lifetime spousal physical violence in India

http://southasia.oneworld.net/article/view/145759/1/
Critical evaluation of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act

http://www.prb.org/pdf06/61.3IndiasPopulationReality_Eng.pdf
Sex ratio and population policies

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20070309002208900.htm
On falling sex ratios and instant weddings

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3220106.html
Violence against women and gynecologic morbidity

http://www.wider.unu.edu/publications/dps/dps2006/dp2006-03.pdf
Sexual harassment in workplace

http://duckofminerva.blogspot.com/2006/12/south-asias-gender-gap.html
Gender gap in India

http://www.glow-boell.de/en/rubrik_3/814_1496.htm
Sociological study on gender issues in India

http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/category_
view.php?category=Women+Studies
Books on women’s studies in India

http://www.indiaclub.com/shop/SearchResults.asp?ProdStock=18261
Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile: essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture

http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=
29280&isbn13=9780060791551&displayType=readingGuide
The Space Between Us: A novel on gender, class and caste

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/India/?view=u...
The Politics of Gender, Community, and Modernity, Essays on Education in India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/OPINION/Editor
ial/LEADER_ARTICLE_A_ray_of_hope/articleshow/497695.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/OPINION/Editori
al/A_ray_of_hope/articleshow/msid-497695,curpg-2.cms
Review of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act 2005

http://humwww.ucsc.edu/FMST/PDFs/FacAAEntagledHistories.pdf
Women and law

https://www.vedamsbooks.com/women.htm
Bibliography on women’s issues, updated November 2006

http://www.icrw.org/docs/2006_cmtoolkit/cm_all.pdf
Child marriage and domestic violence

www.lawyerscollective.org
Draft of the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act 2005

http://www.easternbookcorporation.com/category_view.ph
p?category=Women+Studies
Bibliography of gender studies in India

http://nehasri.blogspot.com/2006/03/breaking-silence-blank-noise-project...
Blank noise project

http://www.un-instraw.org/revista/hypermail/alltickers/fr
/0618.html
Politics of violence against women in India

http://www.panos.org.uk/global/featuredetails.asp?featureid=1193&ID=1005
2004 article with some statistics for women in Kerala on violence against women, freedom, literacy, suicide etc

http://jagori.org/our-activities/resource-centre/new-arrivals-list-of-ja...
List of recent titles from Jagori, a resource centre on issues of women’s rights, equality, health issues etc

http://socialjustice.ekduniya.net/folder.2005-12-28.1779920674
Recent news articles relating to women’s issues

http://www.csrindia.org/CSR%20Newsletter/CSR%20Newsletter%20May%202006.pdf
Newsletter from the Centre for Social Research India focussing on the Women’s Reservation Bill

http://www.hindu.com/mag/2006/06/25/stories/2006062500150300.htm
Editorial article on sex selection

http://www.eldis.org/cf/search/disp/DocDisplay.cfm?Doc=DOC21599&Resource...
Paper, ‘Creating spaces for change: women’s empowerment and the case of panchayati raj in India’

http://www.fpa.org/topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=366841
Article, ‘Women in India: Progress and Setbacks’ from the foreign policy association

http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/7248.htm
Article on a proposal by the National Commission of Women to compensate rape victims

http://www.dgroups.org/groups/cwds-bol/
A discussion list for gender issues in South Asia

http://www.thehindu.com/2006/02/03/stories/2006020305661100.htm
Interview with Amartya Sen on gender relations and equality

http://www.indiatogether.org/2006/may/wom-ncw.htm
Article on the failures of the system to punish perpetrators of violence against women

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2006/05/15/stories/200605150065010...
Article on an author who describes the experience of growing up poor in Bengal

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/1766.html?PHPSESSID=75c6d118bea04a8fc...
Article on foeticide and the right to abort

http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/30/stories/2006043003120700.htm
Article on a new police manual designed to make police more responsive to complaints of violence against women

http://www.indiatogether.org/women/
News site with a women’s section

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/03/women_in_india....
Blog entry on ‘Valuing women in India’ with comments

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521429269
Synopsis of a book, ‘A field of one’s own: gender and land rights in South Asia’

http://www.infochangeindia.org/analysis41.jsp
Interview with Sayeeda Hameed, Planning Commissioner and former member of the National Women’s Commission