Understanding Women's Issues-a Feminist Standpoint [Paperback]: Shahida Murtaza (Editor), Lambert Academic Publications, Germany, ISBN-10: 3659227722, ISBN-13: 978-3659227721, pages-304, Price: $99.75 The book by Dr. Shahida is a faculty in the department of women education at Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India provides the ‘epistemology of the oppressed’ as it gives a different view on hegemonic reality. CONTENTS UNDERSTANDING WOMEN’S ISSUES-A FEMINIST III-XXVI STANDPOINT-SHAHIDA III-XXVI WOMEN’S STRUGGLES AND WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA 1-21 VIBHUTI PATEL GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER BUDGETING IN INDIA 22-48 SAYED AFZAL PEERZADE AND SUSHMA ANGADI NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS 49-66 TALMEEZ FATMA NAQVI WOMEN’S ROLE IN RRELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF ANGAMI NAGA SOCIETY 67-95 VITSO YANO AND REKHA PANDE THE POLITICS OF TRAFFICKING AMONGST TRIBAL WOMEN IN MANIPUR-NORTH -EAST INDIA 96-117 AJAILU NIUMAI WOMEN AND THE STIGMA OF WITCH-HUNTING 118-129 NEETA SHARMA WOMEN’S INDEGENIOUS KNOWLEDGE AND THE PATRIARCHY OF DEVELOPMENT 130-149 HMINGTHANZUALI EXCLUSION, WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND INCLUSIVE ISLAM 150-183 FAREEDA SIDDIQUI THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN 184-199 SANA KHAN DIVORCE IN ISLAM: THE RIGHTS OF MUSLIM WOMEN 200-216 SHEHNAZ NOOR ISSUES AND CONCERNS OF WOMEN IN MEDIA 217-238 P.L.VISHWESHWAR RAO “FIRE” AS A GYNOTEXT: AN ANSWER TO GENDER CONDITIONING? 239-256 SHREE DEEPA A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE 257-267 SHUGUFTA SHAHEEN

1. Lambert Academic Publications, Germany, 2012
ISBN-10: 3659227722, ISBN-13: 978-3659227721,
pages-304, Price: $99.75
The book by Dr. Shahida is a faculty in the department of
women education at Maulana Azad National Urdu University,
Hyderabad, India provides the ‘epistemology of the oppressed’
as it gives a different view on hegemonic reality.

2. Contents
 UNDERSTANDING WOMEN’S ISSUES-A FEMINIST III-XXVI STANDPOINT-SHAHIDA III-XXVI
 WOMEN’S STRUGGLES AND WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA 1-21
VIBHUTI PATEL
 GENDER EQUALITY AND GENDER BUDGETING IN INDIA 22-48
SAYED AFZAL PEERZADE AND SUSHMA ANGADI
 NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS 49-66
TALMEEZ FATMA NAQVI
 WOMEN’S ROLE IN RRELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF ANGAMI NAGA SOCIETY 67-95
VITSO YANO AND REKHA PANDE
 THE POLITICS OF TRAFFICKING AMONGST TRIBAL WOMEN IN MANIPUR-NORTH -EAST INDIA
96-117
AJAILU NIUMAI
 WOMEN AND THE STIGMA OF WITCH-HUNTING 118-129
NEETA SHARMA
 WOMEN’S INDEGENIOUS KNOWLEDGE AND THE PATRIARCHY OF DEVELOPMENT 130-149
HMINGTHANZUALI
 EXCLUSION, WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND INCLUSIVE ISLAM 150-183
FAREEDA SIDDIQUI
 THE STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN PAKISTAN 184-199
SANA KHAN
 DIVORCE IN ISLAM: THE RIGHTS OF MUSLIM WOMEN 200-216
SHEHNAZ NOOR
 ISSUES AND CONCERNS OF WOMEN IN MEDIA 217-238
P.L.VISHWESHWAR RAO
 “FIRE” AS A GYNOTEXT: AN ANSWER TO GENDER CONDITIONING? 39-256
SHREE DEEPA
 A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE 257-267
SHUGUFTA SHAHEEN