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MARY E. JOHN (maryj@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  Ph.D.(History of Consciousness Programme), University of California at Santa Cruz
  M.Phil (Philosophy), University of Puna
  M.A, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Mary E. John has been working in the fields of women’s studies and feminist politics since many years.  She was Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Women’s Studies Programme at JNU from 2001-2006.  She is currently completing a study on women’s relation to power in the context of local urban governance, and is part of a study investigating the declining sex ratio in north west India.  Her interests include questions of theory and methodology in women’s studies, and building new comparative frameworks across Asian and other contexts.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	Planning Families, Planning Gender: Addressing the Adverse Sex Ratio in selected districts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab, with support from ActionAid India and IDRC, Canada, Books for Change, 2008. (co-authored with Ravinder Kaur, Rajni Palriwala, Saraswati Raju and Alpana Sagar.)
	Women’s Studies in India: A Reader, New Delhi: Penguin, 2008
	Kamsootra se ‘Kamsootre’ Tak: Adhunik Bharat mein sexuality ke sarokar, (co-edited with Janaki Nair), trans. Abhay Kumar Dubey, New Delhi: Vani Prakashan, 2008.
	Contested Transformations: Changing Economies and Identities in Contemporary India,     (co-edited with Praveen Kumar Jha and Surinder S. Jodhka) New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2006.
	Essais du feminisme Indienne contemporaine (co-edited with Danielle Haase-Dubosc et al), Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2003.
	French Feminism: an Indian Anthology (co-edited with Danielle Haase-Dubosc et al), New Delhi: Sage, 2003.
	A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India (co-edited with Janaki Nair), New Delhi: Kali for Women 1998 and London: Zed Press 2000.
	Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory and Post-colonial Histories, Berkeley: University of California Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996.
	Women’s Studies in India: A Reader, New Delhi Penguin, 2008.

ARTICLES

	‘Reframing Globalisation: Perspectives from the Women’s Movement’, Special Issue on the Postnational Condition, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.44, no. 9, pp. 46-49, March 7 2009
	“New Agendas for Social Science Research”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.43, no.5, pp.36-38, February 2 2008.
	‘The Business and Ethics of Surrogacy’ (with Imrana Qadeer), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 44, no.2, , pp.10-12, 10-16 January 2009
	‘Gender Gaps’ in Higher Education: A Note on Recent Data” Anchoring Women’s studies in India: Twenty five years of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies, pp. 54-63, 2008.
	“Reservations and the Women's Movement in Twentieth Century India", in Women’s Reservation, ed. Meena Dhanda, New Delhi: Women Unlimited, pp.29-58, 2008.
	Theorising the Present: Problems and Possibilities’ (with Satish Deshpande) [A Response to Partha Chatterjee], Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 43, no. 46, November 2008, pp. 83-86.
	Sexing the Foetus: Feminist Politics and Method across Cultures,’ in Thinking with Donna Haraway: A Reader, ed. Sharon Tamari-Gabrizi
	“Women in Power? Gender, Caste and the Politics of Local Urban Governance,” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 42, no. 69, pp. 3986-3995, September 29-October 5, 2007
	“Schooled in Inequality”, The Hindu, op-ed page, May 17th 2006
	‘Mirror Politics: Fire, Hindutva and Indian Culture’, (with Tejaswini Niranjana) reprinted in     Contemporary Literary Criticism ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter, Thomson and Gale, 2005, pp.106-110
	'Feminism, Poverty and the Emergent Social Order’ in Social Movements in India:Poverty, Power and Politics eds. Raka Ray and Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Minnesota: Rowman and Littlefield, and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp.107-134
	'Women’s Studies in India and the Question of Asia’, Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol.11, No.2 2005, pp.41-66
	‘Women and Feminism in China and India: A Conversation with Li Xiaojiang,’ Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 40, no. 16, April 2005
	‘Feminist Perspectives on Marriage and Family: A Historical View,’ Symposium, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.40, no.8, February 19 2005, pp.712-14, 721
	‘Feminist Interventions’ in Talking New Politics – Series: Are Other Worlds Possible? eds. Jai Sen and Mayura Saini, New Delhi: Zubaan Books, 2005
	'India -- Country Report’, Women’s/Gender Studies in Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO: Bangkok, 2004, pp. 17-48
	Gender Chapters, Social and Political Life, NCERT Textbook for Class VII.
	‘A Curious Coincidence? Parity in France and Reservations for Women in India’, Trajectory of French Thought, French Information Resource Centre in association with Rupa & Co, New Delhi, 2004

INDU AGNIHOTRI (indu@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  Ph.D.(History), Jawaharlal Nehru University
  M.Phil (History), Jawaharlal Nehru University
  M.A. (History), Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Area of Interest
  Gender and History
  The Women’s Movement in India
  Developing a Women’s Studies Programme at the Centre

Major Publications

	Globalization, Resistance and Change: Reflections on South Asian Women’s Experiences in Bhatia, Bhanot and Samanta (eds.) Gender Concerns in South Asia: Some Perspectives, Rawat, Jaipur, 2008.
	Women’s Movement and Governance: Issues and Challenges, in Smita Mishra-Panda (ed.) Engendering Governance Institutions: State, Market and Civil Society, Sage, New Delhi, 2008.

ARTICLES PUBLISHED

	‘Women Power’, cover story Frontline, Vol. 25, Issue 11, 24 May-6 June 2008
	Living in Interesting Times: Reflections on the Women’s Movement in Contemporary India, Paper on Internet for School of Lifelong Learning, University of Delhi

VASANTHI RAMAN (vasanthi@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Bombay.
  MA (Social Work), University of Bombay

Major Publications

FORTHCOMING

The Warp and the Weft: Community and Gender Identity Among Banaras Weavers,  Routledge, 2010

BOOKS

	Edited and Compiled a Report “ Undoing Our Future: A Report on the Status of the Young Child in India” for FORCES ( Forum for Creche and Child Care Services in India), published for FORCES and PLAN India by Bibliophile South Asia, 2009
	“Women’s Reservation and Democratisation: An Alternative Perspective” has been republished in Dhanda Meena (ed) Reservations for Women, Women Unlimited, New Delhi, 2008
	“The Surang (Tunnel) of Madanpura: Partition Motif in Banaras” in Jassal, Smita Tewari and Eyal Ben Ari (eds) Memory and the Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts, Sage,  2007
	“The Women’s Question in Contemporary Indian Politics” has been republished in Ghadially, Rehana (ed) Women in Contemporary Urban India: A Reader, Sage Publications, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore 2007
	The Grand Alliance of Fundamentalisms in Magnifying  Mal-Development, Alternative Economic Survey, India, brought out by the Alternative Survey Group, published by Zed Books, London and Rainbow Publishers, Delhi,  December, 2004

OCCASIONAL PAPER

Identity Formation, Nationhood and Women, Occasional Paper, CWDS, 2006

RENU ADDLAKHA (renu@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Delhi.
  M.Phil (Sociology), University of Delhi
  MA (Social Work), University of Delhi

Renu Addlakha did her doctoral research on the psychiatric profession in India with particular reference to the treatment of women. Her areas of specialisation include the sociology of medicine, mental illness and the psychiatric profession, anthropology of infectious diseases, bioethics and disability studies. She has worked on a number of research projects supported by international agencies like the WHO, DANIDA and the MacArthur Foundation in India. Currently she is engaged in research on gender and disability at the CWDS.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	Disability and Society: A Reader.  Renu Addlakha, Stuart Blume, Patrick Devlieger, Osamu Nagase and Myriam Winance (Eds) New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan,  2009.
	Deconstructing mental illness:An ethnography of psychiatry women and the family. New Delhi. Zubaan Books, 2008

GUEST EDITOR

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 15: 2 (May-August 2008), special issue on ‘Disability, Gender and Society’.

MONOGRAPHS

	Accessing TB services in a tribal district: The Malkangiri project, Orissa. (with Jens Seeberg)Bhubaneswar (Orissa): DANTB, 2005
	Rights and vulnerabilities: A research study of migrant women workers in the informal sector in Delhi (as part of Jagori Research Team).Delhi: Jagori, 2004
	Urban Leprosy Elimination Initiative. New Delhi: DANLEP, 2003 Available online at << http://www.danlep.org   >
	Towards leprosy elimination in tribal communities: Experiences from Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. (with Jens Seeberg). Delhi: DANLEP, 2003 Available online at << http://www.danlep.org   >>
	Health ethics in South-East Asia (Volume 3): Ethical   issues in clinical practice: A qualitative interview study in six Asian countries (with Jens Seeberg). Delhi: World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO Document), 2000 Available online at   << http://www.hum.au.dk/etno/etnojs/volume3.pdf  >

RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

	2010.  Disability-selective abortions in India: Individual choice, disabling environments and the socio-moral order. In Difference on display: Diversity in art, science and society, pp. 176-181.NAI Ultgevers Publishers.
	2010. A legal precedent: Reproductive rights of mentally retarded persons in India. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, VII, 1: 34-36.
	2010. ‘Indigenisation’ not ‘Indianisation’ of Psychiatry: An Anthropological Perspective. Sociological Bulletin, 59 (1): 46-68.
	2010. Engendering disability in the developmental agenda in India: A policy perspective. In Debal K. Singharoy ed. Interrogating social development: global perspectives and local initiatives, pp. 269-300. New Delhi: Manohar
	2009. Disability law in India: Paradigm shift or evolving discourse? (with Saptarshi Mandal) Economic and political weekly XLIV (41and 42): 62-68.
	2009. ‘Gender blind or gender biased? Culture, family and patriarchy in Indian psychiatry’, In Brigitte Sebastia ed. Restoring mental health in India: Pluralistic therapies and concepts, pp. 253-284.. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
	2009. Indigenisation of psychiatry in India. In Patrice Cohen ed. Figures contemporaines de la sante en Inde, pp.59-84.  Paris(France):L’Harmatttan.
	2008.’ Is economic empowerment the key to social mainstreaming of women with disabilities?’ In Voice of Disabled 25(1): 10-11.
	2008. Healthy sex life for visually challenged women. In A.K. Mittal ed. Handbook for Women with Visual Impairment, pp. 60-67. New Delhi: All India Confederation of the Blind (Sponsored by Dr. H.E. Schulze and Marga Schulze Foundation, (Germany).
	Healthy Sex Life for Visually Challenged Women. In A.K. Mittal (ed) Handbook for Women with Visual Impairment, pp. 60-67. New Delhi: All India Confederation of the Blind (Sponsored by Dr. H.E. Schulze and Marga Schulze Foundation, Germany). 2008.
	Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity: How young people with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India, Renu Addlakha, 2007
	2007 Mainstreaming disability in the child rights agenda. Special issue of Infochange on child rights InfochangeAgenda 0-18: 51-52.
	Review essay ‘Media gender and sexuality: 2007. Historical and contemporary perspectives. Indian journal of gender studies 14(1):179-187
	2006. Disability, sexuality and human rights. International Journal of Disability Studies (Inaugural issue on Disability studies in India: New directions for future research) 2. (1):89-96.
	Mainstreaming Disability in the Child Rights Agenda. Special issue on Child Rights Infochange Agenda 0-18: 51-52. 2007
	How Young People with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India: Four case studies. Sexuality and disability 25(3):100-113. 2007.
	Gender, Subjectivity and Sexual Identity: How Young People with Disabilities Conceptualise the Body, Sex and Marriage in Urban India. Delhi: Centre for Women’s Development Studies. Occasional Paper No. 46,  31 p. 2007.
	Affliction and testimony: A reading of the diary of Parvati Devi. In Indian Journal of gender studies,  12(1): 63-82, 2005
	Child mental health: A neglected area in public health policy. In MICA Communication Review  2(1): 41-46, 2005
	Family autonomy and patient rights to healthcare in an ‘Asian values’ context (with Jens     Seeberg, Kusum Verma, Manju Mehta and Renuka Duttta. In Folk: Journal of Danish    Ethnographic Society, 45: 87-104, 2003
	Global-local dialectic in medico-administrative practice: A case study of poliomyelitis.    Economic and political weekly XXXV (8 and 9): 676-683, 2000
	Lay and medical diagnoses of psychiatric disorder and the normative construction of femininity.  In Bhargavi V. Davar ed. Mental health from a gender perspective (313-333). Delhi:  Sage Publications, 2001
	Disability and domestic citizenship: Stigma, contagion and the making of the subject (with Veena Das) In Public Culture 13(3): 511-531, 2001
	State legitimacy and social suffering in a modern epidemic: A multi-sited ethnography of an  outbreak of dengue hemorrhagic fever in Delhi. In Contributions to Indian Sociology 35  (2:.151-179, 2001
	User configuration and perspective: A case study of the hepatitis-B introductory trial in    East Delhi. (with Aruna Grover). Economic and political weekly XXXV (8 and 9): 736-744, 2000
	Living with chronic schizophrenia: An ethnographic account of family burden and coping strategies. Indian journal of psychiatry, 41(2): 91-95, 1999
	Nisha: Who would marry someone like me In Abha Bhaiya and Lynn F. Lee (eds.)Unmad: Findings of a research study on women’s mental and emotional crisis: the voice of the subject. New Delhi: Jagori, 1998

NEETHA N. (neetha@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  Ph.D. (Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  M.Phil (Applied Economics), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  MA (Economics), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

Neetha N is a gold medalist for Post Graduation and has done her M. Phil and Doctoral studies at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. She is the recipient of IWMI/Ford Foundation Fellowship for South Asian Women Doctoral Scholars. She was Associate Fellow at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA during 1998-2006. Her research interests are labour and employment issues of women, domestic workers, labour migration and  gender statistics and data gaps. 

Major Publications

BOOKS

	Decent Work: A Handbook (joint work with Dr. Sasikumar and Dr. Babu P. Remesh), V.V.Giri National Labour Institute, NOIDA, 2008
	Institutional Choice in Irrigation: A study of distribution in a canal command in Kerala  (2009), Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi
	Dynamics of Women’s Employment in the Era of Globalization: Signs of Segregation or Integration? in Women’s Situations and Women’s Studies: A South Asian Perspective, edited by Sanchari Roy Mukherjee, Sarat Book Distributor, Kolkata 2007

RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

	Contours of Domestic Service: Characteristics, Work Relations and Regulations, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol.52, No. 3, 2009
	`Feminisation or Segregation? Insights from a Disaggregate analysis of NSSO Data’ in  `Gender Issues in Development: Concerns for the 21st Century’ Edited by Bhaswati Das and Vimal Khawas, Rawat Publications, 2009
	‘Changing Dimensions of Unemployment in India during the Post Reform Period’ in `The Indian Economy since 1991: Economic Reforms and Performance’, Edited by Prakash, B.A., Pearson Education, 2009
	Invisibility Continues? Social Security and Women Unpaid Workers, Special Issue on Social Security for Unorganised Workers, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLI, No.32, August 12, 2006
	Gender Implications of Outsourced Work in the New Economy: A Case Study of Domestic Call Centres, The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Volume 51, No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 2008 (Coauthored with Babu P. Remesh)
	Regulating Domestic Work, Commentary, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 43, No. 37, September 13-19, 2008
	Gender Dimensions of Service Sector Employment, Labour file, Vol. 5 No: 3, May-June 2007
	Dynamics of Women’s Employment in the Era of Globalization: Signs of Segregation or Integration? in Women’s Situations and Women’s Studies: A South Asian Perspective, edited by Sanchari Roy Mukherjee,  Sarat Book Distributor, Kolkata 2007
	Invisibility Continues? Social Security and Women Unpaid Workers, Special Issue on Social Security for Unorganised Workers, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLI, No.32, August 12, 2006
	Scope and Potential of Women’s Participation in Emerging Sunshine Sectors, Background paper prepared as part of the Report on Assessing the Impact of Trade and Globalisation on Gender in India, National Productivity Council, New Delhi
	Employment Conditions and Quality: A Study of Small Enterprises in NOIDA Export Processing Zone, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 47, No. 4, 2004
	Education and Skill Development of Workforce in Export-Oriented Production: Evidences from Noida Export Processing Zone, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 47, No.2, 2004
	Making of Female Bread Winners: Migration and Social Networking of Women Domestics in Delhi, Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Women Studies, Vol.39, No. 17, 2004
	`Labour and Employment Issues in NOIDA EPZ’ in Kalpagam, U.; Nisha Srivastava & D.M. Diwakar (Eds.) Labour and Poverty, G.P. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, 2004
	Alternative Irrigation Institutions in Canal Command: The Case of Chalakkudy River Diversion Scheme in Kerala, Water Policy Research Highlight, IWMI-Tata Water Policy Program, Anand, Gujarat, 2004
	Migration for Domestic Work: Women Domestics in Delhi, Labour and Development, Special Issue on Labour Mobility, Vol. 9. No.2,  2004
	Women Workers in the New Economy: Call Centre Work in NOIDA, Labour and Development, Special Issue on Globalisation and Women’s Work, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2004 (Co-authored with Babu P. Remesh)
	Feminisation and Export Oriented Manufacturing: Women Workers in NEPZ, Labour and Development, Special Issue on Globalisation and Women’s Work, Vol. 10, No.2, 2004 (Co-authored with Uday Kumar Varma)
	Women and Child Labour: Concerns of Second NCL, Labour File, Centre for Education and Communication, New Delhi, 2002
	Flexible Production, Feminisation and Disorganisation: Evidences from Tiruppur Knitwear Industry, Economic and Political Weekly, Special Issue on Labour, Vol. 37, No. 18, 2002
	Feminisation and Marginalisation: Revelations of NSS 55th Round, Labour and Development, Vol. 7. No.2, 2001

WORKING PAPERS

	‘Women’s Work in the Post Reform Period:  An exploration of macro data’, Occasional Paper No. 52, CWDS, New Delhi, 2008
	Labour, Employment and Gender Issues in EPZ: The case of NEPZ, NLI Research Studies No.52, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, 2004
	Migration, Social Networking and Employment: A Study of Domestic Workers in Delhi, NLI Research Studies No.37, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, 2003
	Gender and Technology: Impact of Flexible Organisation and Production on Female Labour in the Tiruppur Knitwear Industry, NLI Research Study Series No. 20, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, 2001
	Women and Labour Market: A Macro Economic Study, NLI Research Study Series No.3, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, 2000
	Adverse Sex Ratios and Labour Market Participation of Women: Trends, Patterns and Linkages, Research Study Series No.10, V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, 2000

TRAINING MANUALS

	Training manual on Gender Inequality for International Labour Organisation (ILO), New Delhi
	Training manual on Laws for Women Informal Sector Workers for International Labour Organisation (ILO), New Delhi
	Pedagogical Material on Employment Dimensions of Decent Work for the International Institute of Labour Studies (IILS), ILO, Geneva

INDRANI MAZUMDAR (indrani@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  MA (History), Delhi University, Delhi

Major Publications

BOOKS

Women Workers and Globalization: Emergent Contradictions in India, Stree, Kolkata, 2007

RESEARCH PAPERS AND ARTICLES

	Public-Private Partnership in ICDS: Privatisation vs. Universalisation’, Labour File, Volume 6 Nos: 4-5, July-October 2008
	‘Women’s Unpaid Labour in Neo-liberal India’, The Indian Historical Review, Volume XXXV,No 2, July 2008
	Public-Private Partnership in ICDS: Privatisation vs. Universalisation’, Labour File, Volume 6 Nos: 4-5, July-October 2008

SABIHA HUSSAIN

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology) Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.Phil (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.A. (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi

In her Doctoral research she has explored the degree of modernization and social change that has occurred among Muslim women after independence from a gender perspective. Through her findings she tried to unravel various myths and stereotypes related to the backwardness of Muslim women in social, economic and legal spheres. She argued that attributing the backwardness of Muslim women to Islam is a stereotyped explanation; rather a holistic approach which includes the national and international context is required for a better understanding of the issue.

Major Publications

BOOKS

	The Changing Half, Classical Publishing House, New Delhi, 1997.
	Exposing the Myth of Muslim Fertility (2008) Bibliophile South Asia, Delhi.

OCCASIONAL PAPER

	Muslim Women Rights Discourse in Pre-independence period  Occasional Paper No. 43 CWDS, 2006
	Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India, Sabiha Hussain, 2007
	Breaking Stereotypes: Two Generations of Muslim Women: Sabiha Hussain, 2000

RESEARCH PAPERS/ ARTICLES

	Reflections of Islamic Identity, Citizenship Rights  and Gender Justice, Journal of International Women’s Studies Vol. 9 #1 November 2007
	Shariat Courts and Women’s Rights in India, Pakistan Journal of Women Studies vol. 14, No, 2, Karachi, Pakistan December, 2007.
	Stereotypes:  South Asia  Encyclopedia on Women in Islamic Culture 2 -1-804, February, 2004 Brill Publication, Netherlands
	Hazards of Being A Woman: Right to Health and the Existing Reality Journal of Asian Women Studies, Japan Volume 12 December 2003.

SREELEKHA NAIR (sreelekha@cwds.ac.in)

Education
  Ph.D. (Sociology) Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.Phil (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi
  M.A. (Sociology), Jawaherlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Sreelekha Nair has been working on women in modern professions, within the broad framework of understanding the dynamics and processes. She is a recipient of Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fellowship for Doctoral Studies. She was post doctoral researcher of ICSSR-MSH at lab Anthropologie Urbaine at Paris, France.   She is currently engaged in research on the gender dimensions of migration of professional women in India, focussing particularly on the migrant nurses from Kerala in Delhi hospitals. Her publications at various stages include papers on women in professions and data restitution in women’s studies.

Major Publications

RESEARCH PAPERS/ ARTICLES

	Indian Nurses: Changing Terms of Labour and Care in Women and Migration in South Asia-health and Social Consequences, 2009, workshop proceedings published by Uppsala University, Sweden
	Globalization and Livelihood: Perspective of Women Nurses in Delhi in Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 13(4), pp.34-56, Seoul: Asian Center for Women's Studies, 2007
	Rethinking Citizenship, Community and Rights: The Case of Nurses from Kerala in Indian Journal of Gender Studies 14(1), pp.137-156, New Delhi: Sage, 2007
	Indian Nurses: Changing Terms of Labour and Care in Women and Migration in South Asia-health and Social Consequences, 2009, workshop proceedings published by Uppsala University, Sweden.

OCCASIONAL PAPER

	Transcending Boundaries: Indian Nurses in Internal and International Migration, Sreelekha Nair, 2007
	A Profession on the Margins: Status Issues in Indian Nursing, Sreelekha Nair and Madelaine Healey, 2006

ACADEMIC AWARDS

	Hermes (Maison des Sciences de L'Homme) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
	Nehru Memorial Doctoral Fellowship

BIJOYA ROY (bijoya@cwds.ac.in)

Education
   Ph.D., Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
      New Delhi
   M.Phil., Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
      New Delhi
   M.A. Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Bijoya Roy's research focuses on evolving health care provisioning models. Her interest lies in examining organisational reforms within institutional settings like hospitals, primary health centres, interface between the public and private sector and inequities in availability, access and disparities across groups who may be vulnerable due to factors such as poverty, gender or geographic location using mixed-methods

Research Papers and Articles
   Roy, B. “User Fee Policy in West Bengal: A Case Study” in Kelley Michele and Dsouza
      Deepika (Eds.), The World Bank in India: Undermining Sovereignty, Distorting
      Development, Orient Black Swan, New Delhi, 2010
   Husain Z Ghosh S and Roy B (2009) ‘Top heavy’ systems and quality of health care:A
      survey of select departments in R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, India”, Social
      Medicine, Vol.4, No.2
   Roy B Restructuring Public Sector Hospital Services: Marginalising the Poor available
      online at http://www.esocialsciences.com

Occasional Paper
   Husain Z Ghosh S and Roy B (2008) “Socio-Economic Profile of the Users in Public and
      Private Sector Hospitals of Kolkata”, Occasional Paper No. 14, IDSK

SAVITRI RAY (savitri@cwds.ac.in)

Education
   M.A. (Geography) from Centre For the Study of Regional Development, JNU, New Delhi.
   Certificate Course in Gender Issues in Development Planning from Asian Institute of
     Technology, Bangkok

Savitri Ray has 25 years of research and investigation experience in relation to status of women. She has done work on Employment and Income Generation for Rural Women, Rural Energy, Panchayati raj and Migration. Also edited a newsletter for peasant women (Kisanin Manch) and conducted Gender training under NCERT/DIET programme. She has worked as Gender Expert with the Forest Department; Govt. of Haryana during1999-2001 and also evaluated a watershed management programme in the state of Uttranchal during 2003-2005.Areas of interest include panchayati raj, community forestry and issue of female foeticide.

Major Publications

Major contribution made in the following reports:

	Migrant Labour: Gender Dimension.
	Changing Energy Availability and its Impact on Rural Women in India.
	Women and Cultural Values-A case study of Punjab.
	Directory of Women’s Cooperatives in India.
	Voices from Below: Participation of Women in Panchayats.
	Role of Public Agencies as Instruments for Women’s Equality and Development.
	Assessing the Impact of Women’s Decade (1975-85).
	Prepared training manual on Village Entry process/Participatory assessment/Resource Mapping etc.

RUKMINI SEN (rukmini@cwds.ac.in)

Education
   Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Calcutta, Kolkatta
   M.A. (Sociology), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Rukmini Sen has taught courses in Sociology and Law, Disability and Law, Law and Social Change at the WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She has also taught M.A. courses on Sociology of Gender at Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata and M. Phil course in Feminist Research Methodology at Women’s Studies Resource Centre, University of Calcutta. She has been involved in delivering training on women’s rights and disability rights to administrative officers and NGO personnel.

She has been an M.A. dissertation guide on the following themes:
·  Changing scenario of the status of the Lepcha women in the 21^st century—a case study of   
   Ngassey Busty, 6^th mile, Kalimpong                                        
·   Portrayal of women in the world of advertisements
·   Images in Words: Portrayal of Women in Hindi Songs
·   Heteronormative Montage: An Analysis of hetero-normativity through the movies of Rituparno
   Ghosh

She has been actively involved with different women and disability rights organizations in Kolkata. Her interests include analyzing legal and policy documents on violence against women, using a feminist methodological critique to read them. Using women’s narratives as a methodology for purposes of understanding institutional ethnography or challenging ‘malestream’ legal research are the interdisciplinary areas that she intends to work in.

Major Publications

Awards

   Selected for the International Leadership Programme of SAARC countries on Human Rights
      by the US State Department of Education and Cultural Affairs, February, 2007

SEEMA KAZI (seema@cwds.ac.in)

Education

   Ph.D. (Gender Studies), London School of Economics
   M.A. (Women and Development), Institute of Social Studies


Major Publications

BOOKS

Between Democracy and Nation: Gender and Militarisation in Kashmir. Women Unlimited (New Delhi) 2009; Oxford University Press (Karachi) 2010; South End Press (Boston) 2010

RESEARCH PAPERS/ ARTICLES

	Gender and Democratic Governance in South Asia. Special Paper for International Development and Research Centre (IDRC). (Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning, 2010)
	Shopian: War, Gender and Democracy in Kashmir. Economic and Political Weekly of India. December 5, 2009 Vol. XLIV No. 49
	The Discontents of Democracy in Kashmir in KashmirLit. Vol II, Issue II (Fall 2009)
	Fractured Community: Prospects for Community-based Reconstruction in Kashmir in Tanyss Munro and Rawwida Baksh (eds.) Learning to Live: Using Open and Distance Learning for Community Peacebuilding. (Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning, 2009)
	Academic Discourse: Gender, Militarization and Society in Kashmir. Paper presented at ‘Seminar on Kashmir’ (Utrecht: Interchurch Peace Council IKV, 2007)
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