Metropolis as Patriarch?

The Feminine experience of the City

Contents:
  • Editorial: Women in the city

  • City of hope (Mithun Som)

  • A room of one’s own? Single women in Hyderabad (Rani Rohini Raman)

  • Bloodshed in the bathroom (Subhadra Joopaka)

  • Breaking the chains: Understanding “Pinjra Tod” Campaign

  • The story of unbelonging: Women in public space (Madhurima Majumder)

  • Conducting/curtailing Pleasure: Notes on leisure, conduct and urban sexuality( Pranoo Deshraju)

  • Owning the city: Belonging and anonymity (Madhumeeta Sinha)

  • My tryst with local transport in villages, towns and cities (Mithun Som)

  • Dilli Nazm (Nabina Das)

  • Rachana Mudraboyina: An Introduction

  • First Generation Dalit women’s experiences in Hyderabad city (Madhavi Mirapa)

  • Ode to Leaving (Nabina Das)





  • Urmila Conducts: Understanding work and gender in Hyderabad(Devayani Prasad, Anusha Sundar)

  • Ishq Mein Sheher Hona (Ravish Kumar)

  • ‘Why did you let him shoot that?’: An Indian woman’s story of “revenge porn” (Neha Dixit)

  • The burqa and the rickshaw (Javeed Alam)

  • Thoughts about gender and space in the City of Hyderabad(Tejaswini Madabhushi)

  • The Meeting(Nabina Das)

  • Subway(Mohammed Khadeer Babu)
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    Guest Editors: Mithun Som, Rani Rohini Raman, Madhurima Majumder, Madhavi Mirapa, A Suneetha

    Resident Editors: R Srivatsan and MA Moid

    Article Photos: Credit and arrangement Mithun Som, Rani Rohini Raman

    Advisory Board (Executive Committee of Anveshi): Lalita K, Susie Tharu, Veena Shatrugna, Asma Rasheed, Uma Bhrugubanda, Rama Melkote, Sheela Prasad, Aisha Farooqi, Sajaya Kakarla, Gogu Shyamala, Kaneez Fathima, Madhumeeta Sinha.

    Production: A.Srinivas, T.Sreelakshmi.

    Published by: Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, 2-2-18/2/A, D.D. Colony, Hyderabad – 500 013

    The contents of this broadsheet reflect the data, perspectives and opinions of the individual contributors and guest editors.They do not necessarily represent the unanimous views of Anveshi as an organization or those of its members individually. Nor do they represent a consensus among the editors.