The Informal Discussion Group invites you to an interactive session with:
Urvashi Butalia
(Feminist, Historian, Author)
On the topic:
'Sexuality and Identity, through the life of a eunuch'
Urvashi Butalia
(Feminist, Historian, Author)
On the topic:
'Sexuality and Identity, through the life of a eunuch'
Date: 27th August, '09
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Staff Room
Writer, publisher, feminist, historian, Urvashi Butalia's writing focuses on the modern history of India, and on partition and oral histories in particular. She has also written on gender, communalism, fundamentalism and media. She co-edited In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women (1994) and her books include Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South (1995), Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences (1995), and Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir (2002). In 1998 she wrote the award-winning The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India which has been one of the most influential books in South Asian studies of the past decade. Currently, she is working on two new books: Mona: A Sort of Life/A Life of Sorts on the life of a eunuch, and The India Reader, an edited volume of essays on India to be published by Duke University Press.
Time: 8 p.m.
Venue: Staff Room
Writer, publisher, feminist, historian, Urvashi Butalia's writing focuses on the modern history of India, and on partition and oral histories in particular. She has also written on gender, communalism, fundamentalism and media. She co-edited In Other Words: New Writing by Indian Women (1994) and her books include Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South (1995), Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences (1995), and Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir (2002). In 1998 she wrote the award-winning The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India which has been one of the most influential books in South Asian studies of the past decade. Currently, she is working on two new books: Mona: A Sort of Life/A Life of Sorts on the life of a eunuch, and The India Reader, an edited volume of essays on India to be published by Duke University Press.
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