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Notes
1. M Vanamala, "Informalization and Feminization of a
Formal Sector Industry: A Case Study", in Economic
and Political Weekly, vol.36 no.26 (June 30 2001),
pp.2378-89.
2. Gabriele Dietrich, "Emerging Feminist and
Ecological Concerns in Asia", In God's Image, vol.12,
no.1 (Spring 1993), p.31.
3. "The Need for a Dialogue of Difference: Towards
New Visions" (a response by Vimochana, a Bangalore-
based forum for women's rights, to the Draft Country
Paper prepared for the Beijing World Conference), p.7.
4. Cynthia Stephen, ed., Women in India: Profiles and
Herstories (Bangalore: National Alliance of Women,
1996), p.25.
5. S Krishnaswamy, "Female Infanticide in
Contemporary India: A Case study of Kallars of Tamil
Nadu', in Rehana Ghadially, ed., Women in Indian
Society, p.186.
6. .Loc. cit.
7. Op. cit., p.187.
8. Bina Agarwal, ed. Structures of Patriarchy (New
Delhi: Kali for Women, 1988), p.102.
9.Madhu Kishwar, "When Daughters are Unwanted:
Sex Determination Tests in India', Manushi, no.86,
(Jan - Feb 1995), pp.15f.
10. Ashish Bose, "Census of India 2001 and After",
Economic and Political Weekly, vol.36, no.20 (May 1
2001), pp.1686f.
11. Lokayan ( March 13 1996), p.17.
12. The Indian Express, January 17 1997
13. The message was titled "From one queen to
another", asking the beauty pageants to see their link
to the woman-product equation and put a stop to
gender injustice and violence. See the pamphlet that
was circulated on November 23 1996 by Vimochana,
Bangalore, along with other like-minded women's
organizations. The price for the protest that day was
that the demonstrators (myself included) were arrested
by the police because we were identified as trouble-
makers, disturbers of the peace!
14. Neer Burra, "Cultural Stereotypes and Household
Behaviour: Girl Child Labour in India', Economic and
Political Weekly (February 3-10 2001), p.481.