Journal of South Asia Women Studies


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Vol. 8 No.1	February 2^nd, 2002
Note from the Editor: 2002 International Women�s Day: For Women, Afghanistan is Everywhere	Enrica Garzilli
Brother Cobra, Mother Bitch: Ethics and Ecology in Marathi Women's Storytelling	Vidyut Aklujkar
New Titles: Antica India. Dalle origini al XIII secolo D.C. / The Partitions of Memory. The Afterlife of the Division of India / Faces of the Feminine in Ancient Medieval and Modern India / and Books Received

Vol. 7 No.1	October 5^th, 2001
Note from the Editor: No War in Afghanistan!	Enrica Garzilli
Global Economy and Women Managers in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Korea	Sunita Singh-Sengupta
Uncaging the Birds: the Movement to Allow Bengali Women into the Medical Profession: 1870-1880s	Chandrika Paul
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Vol. 6 No.1	October 13^th, 2000
Note from the Editor: Our Sixth Year	Enrica Garzilli
Dowry and its Effect on Marital Choices in India	Sonia Dalmia
New Titles: Ashes of Immortality: Widow Burning in India / Light in the Crevice Never Seen

Vol. 5 No. 2	December 25^th, 1999
Note from the Editor: A Women's New Year	Enrica Garzilli
Two wives for a perfect life: Nag'mati and Padmavati in Jayasi's PadmAvat as symbols of the integration of bhoga and yoga	Giorgio Milanetti
New Titles: Pandanus. Flowers, Nature, Semiotics: Kavya and Sangham

Vol. 5 No. 1	August 26^th, 1999
Note from the Editor	Enrica Garzilli
Gender Equity Restricted: Indian Demographic Transition Delayed	William M. Alexander
Eurogamy as Racism Among South Asian Women: A Consequence of Euro-Western Domination	Ronald E. Hall
New Titles: Asian Women in the Information Age

Vol. 4 No. 1	December 22^nd, 1998
Note from the Editor: The Asiatica Association	Enrica Garzilli
The Peasant Women's Movement in the Philippines: Alternative Perspectives on Development	Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
Review Paper: Pretty Plant in Arid Soil: Misogyny and Genteel Morality in Satyajit Ray's Charulata	Narasingha P. Sil
New Titles: Frauenforschung International. Dokumentation/Bibliographie. Teil 2/3: Asien, Ozeanien, Australien / The Calf Became an Orphan. A Study in Contemporary Kannada Fiction

Vol. 3, No. 1	August 25^th, 1997
Note from the Editor: The Independence of India: What Kind of Independence?	Enrica Garzilli
The Perils of Free Speech	Taslima Nasrin
A Non-Conventional Woman: Two Evenings with Taslima Nasrin. A Report	Enrica Garzilli
Review Paper: Bending Bamboo Changing Winds: Nepali Women Tell Their Life Stories by Eva Kipp	Damber K. Gurung and Ambika Gurung

Vol. 2, No. 4	December 22^nd, 1996
Note from the Editor: Italian Dowry and Indian Dowry Deaths	Enrica Garzilli
Domestic Violence: A Daily Terror in Most Mauritian Families	Ranjita Bunwaree-Phukan
Dowry, �Dowry Deaths�, and Violence Against Women	Julia Leslie
Hindu Marriage System, Hindu Scriptures, and Dowry and Bride-Burning in India	Ram Narayan Tripathi
Little Dowry, No Sati: The Lot of Women in the Vedic Period	Michael Witzel

Vol. 2, No. 3	December 1^st, 1996
Note from the Editor: Happy Birthday to Us!	Enrica Garzilli
From �Baylan� to �Bruha�: Hispanic Impact on the Animist Priestess in the Philippines	Carolyn Brewer
Net Titles: Women, Information and the Future: Collecting and Sharing Resources Worldwide by E. Steiner Moseley (ed)

Vol. 2, No. 2	May 15^th, 1996
Note from the Editor: Happy Mother's Day!	Enrica Garzilli
Sati Was Not Enforced in Ancient Nepal	Jayaraj Acharya
The Daughters and the Hindu Rites	Bandita Phukan
Practical Steps Towards Saving the Lives of 25,000 Potential Victims of Dowry and Bride Burning in India	Himendra B. Thakur
New Titles: We Tried: Government Service in India and Nepal / The Game in Reverse. Poems by Taslima Nasrin
News

Vol. 2, No. 1	January 26^th, 1996
Note from the Editor	Enrica Garzilli
Stridhana: To Have and To Have Not	Enrica Garzilli
News

Vol. 1, No. 1	November 29^th, 1995
Note from the Editor: Our First Issue	Enrica Garzilli
A Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi: His Views on Women and Social Change	Sita Kapadia
Whether Inheritance to Women is a Viable Solution to the Dowry Problem in India	Subhadra Chaturvedi
New Titles: Gender and the Sexes in the Indonesian Archipelago by L. Summers and W.D. Wilder, eds.	Enrica Garzilli

Editor-in-Chief

Enrica Garzilli
University of Macerata, Italy

Editors

Jayaraj Acharya
Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Gregory Bailey
La Trobe University, Australia

Oscar Botto
University of Turin, Italy

Geraldine Forbes
SUNY College at Oswego, USA

Himendra Thakur
ISADBBI, USA

Kapila Vatsyayan
India International Centre, India

Albrecht Wezler
University of Hamburg, Germany

Carolyne Wright
Emory University, USA

Technical Editor

Ludovico Magnocavallo