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From the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this even lead to a better society, especially in rich nations, helping us break free from a pointless obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these legitimate questions as a starting point for a riveting journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural origins of our need for growth. It's an imperative, he argues, that we abandon at our own risk. Terzi ranges across centuries and diverse civilizations to show that focus on economic expansion is deeply interwoven with the human quest for happiness, well-being, and self-determination. Growth, he argues, is underpinned by core principles and dynamics behind the West's rise to affluence. These include the positivism of the Enlightenment, the acceleration of science and technology and, ultimately, progress itself. Today growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the peaceful conduct of international relations, and the very way our society is organized through capitalism. Abandoning growth would not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating conflict within and among societies. This does not mean we have to choose between chaos and environmental destruction. Growth for Good presents a credible agenda to enroll capitalism in the fight against climate catastrophe. With the right policies and the help of engaged citizens, pioneering nations can set in motion a global decarbonization wave and in parallel create good jobs and a better, greener, healthier world

Can Wellness be Far Behind?: Disease, Health and Culture / Anindita Chatterjee & Nilanjana Chatterjee -- Section I Social Science Perspective -- Colonialism and Disease: Smallpox in the Aboriginal Population / Bill Ashcroft -- Vaccine Nation and its Miserables: Bodies and Bio-citizenship in the Empire / Mandira Mitra -- Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century / Anindita Chatterjee -- Žižek's Pandemic!, the 'New Normal' Dilemma and Some Indian Perspectives / Anasuya Bhar -- Livelihood of Internal Migrants of India during Covid-19 Pandemic: Concerns and Measures / Debasis Charaborty -- Federalism and Intergovernmental Coordination during a Pandemic: A Special Reference to India / Chitra Roy -- Hate in the Times of Covid-19: Can we Blame the Print Media in India? / Rumela Sen & Nusrat Farooq -- Neo Liberal Turn in The Domain of Health Care: The Emergence of Corporate Health Care Sector in India / Amrita Bagchi -- Section II Cultural Perspective -- Disease and the Desire for Health in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Subhajit Sen Gupta -- Their Mother's Gardens: Epidemic, Healing and Motherhood in Year of Wonders and Hamnet / Chandrima Das -- "stand aside death...today is my day": Contextualizing the Naga Esotericism in Easterine Kire's Novels / Nilanjana Chatterjee -- Dis-ease, Dis-order and the Refugee Experience: Appraising South Asian Partition Narratives / Debasri Basu -- Always in Search of her Ithaca: Women's Spiritual Wellbeing in Journey to Ithaca: A Pilgrimage in Search of Identity and Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything / Nibedita Mukherjee -- Disjunctured Subjectivities and Corporeal Well-being: Issues of Mobility and Health in Select Transgender Life Narratives from India / Rajesh V. Nair & Lekshmi R. Nair -- Sustainable Eating and Wellness: Examining Nutrition Strategies in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year Of Seasonal Eating and Ruth Ozeki's A Year Of Meats / Shymasree Basu -- Disease, Wellbeing, and the Idea of Health in Select Cinematic Representations of the Macbeth Metaphor / Anuradha Mazumder.

Introducing the light and dark sides of sex in tourism and the fifty shades of grey in between: using the social-ecological model / Liza Berdychevsky and Neil Carr -- Ethical debates on sex tourism, and sex and tourism / S. Emre Dilek and Neil Car -- Part 1. Light side of sex in tourism: affects and effects of the diverse sexual encounters in tourism -- Gender differences and similarities in the perceptions of and experiences with sex and sexual risk taking in tourism / Liza Berdychevsky -- Sex and summer camps / Neil Carr and Leonardo Nava Jimenez -- Embodying liminality: exploring the 'affects' of sexual encounters in backpacker and volunteer tourism / Phoebe Everingham, Amie Matthews and Tamara Young -- Tourism, the internet, and Euro-Brazilian intimacies / Octávio Sacramento -- Online dating on the move. At the intersection of sexuality, tourism and space representation / Elsa Soro, Sheila Sánchez Bergara and Jose A. Mansilla López -- Part 2. Fifty shades of grey of sex in tourism: romance tourism, sex tourism, or exploitation tourism? -- Sex tourism beyond the human / S. Emre Dilek -- Sex tourism in the Caribbean: a case study of Negril Beach Boys / Amanda Jenkins, Roya Rahimi and Peter Robinson -- Sex tourism and girl's education: reflective voices of 'girls' at Mtwapa, Kenya / George Ariya and Ruth Nyamasyo -- Examining awareness, knowledge, and perceptions of tourism and its links to HIV/AIDS in Maun, Botswana / Naomi Moswete -- Part 3. Dark side of sex and tourism: child sex tourism and sexual harassment -- Sexual harassment in the hotel housekeeping department / Irina Oliveira and Vitor Ambrósio -- The distorted reach to local stakeholders in the global fight against child sex tourism. The case of Thailand, the Dominican Republic and The Gambia / Frans de Man and Arnoud Lagendijk -- Child sex tourism and the role of local communities / Athina Papageorgiou -- Conclusions and ways forward / Neil Carr and Liza Berdychevsk.

"Tens of thousands of children have been born worldwide as a result of mass rape campaigns or wartime sexual exploitation. What about these living legacies of rape and sexual violence? What do we know about these children and their life chances? This book brings together researchers and practitioners from around the globe, each of whom has spent decades working with women who survived wartime rape and with their children who were the result of that violence. Together the authors rethink some of the assumptions that echo in the literature, policy, practice and popular culture about these children and those around them. This ground-breaking collection is composed of four thematic sections. Section one brings together contributions that explore the "Life cycles of children born of wartime rape across time and space." Section two, "Beyond stigma: Gender, kinship and belonging in northern Uganda," draws upon complementary studies to investigate the complexities of why young people born of rebel rape are or are not able rejoin their families and communities in the post-conflict period. In section three, "(In)visibility: Concealment, disclosure, and the question of categories" contributors explore the different ways these children learn about their origins and how they, their families and societies react to that understanding. Finally, Section four, "Transformations: Intergenerational reconciliation and justice" engages the local, national, and international spheres explore how best to move from abuse, marginalization and pain into belonging and justice for these mothers and their children. Case studies involved in-depth research into the lives and experiences of children and young people born of wartime rape and abuse, their mothers and fathers, their families, societies and governments in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Germany, Iraq, Kenya, Mozambique, Norway, Peru, Rwanda, Serbia, Somalia, Syria, Uganda, United States, and Vietnam"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Current profiles of law and literary studies -- 2. The law-literature divide -- 3. Law, literature, and liberal democracy -- 4. The three pillars of time -- 5. Law and literature: a constellation of two trajectories -- 6. Phenomenology: a brief note on methodology -- 7. Outline of key arguments -- 1. Law, literature, and the space of appearance -- 1. Appearance, reality, truth: the birth of history and the beginning of time -- 2. Poverty, politics, and poetry -- 3. The literary exception and the rule of law -- 4. Profound poetry and shallow law? -- 5. The darkness of the human heart, the hiatus of time -- 2. Law, literature, event -- 1. Law and literature: a constellation of two trajectories -- 2. From eutopia to utopia: the transformation of the utopian imagination -- 3. U-topos and event -- 4. The literary response to the event -- 5. The law's response to the event -- 6. The pillars of time -- 3. Revolutionaries, renegades, and refugees -- 1. When time gives -- 2. The visible and the invisible Mandela -- 3. The renegade moment -- 4. Bram Fischer's madness -- 5. Refugee status: when time breaks -- 6. The destruction of the world -- 7. The end of an era -- 8. The poetic descent into the hiatus of time -- 9. The refugee, the renegade, and the revolutionary -- 4. The literal exception -- 1. T.S. Eliot, Schmitt, and Hamlet -- 2. Schmitt, Gadamer, and Hamlet -- 3. Schmitt and Däubler -- 4. Voßkuhle, Kohlhaas, and Kleist -- 5. Nussbaum, Posner, Holmes, and Dickens -- 5. The rule of law -- 1. The Example of Mens rea -- 2. Legal hermeneutics -- 3. Legal justice -- 6. The literary exception -- 1. Leo Tolstoy: the lawless event of history -- 2. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Cormac McCarthy: poetry of lawlessness.

Intro -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Causality Syndrome -- The Causality Syndrome Unpacked: System 1 and System 2 -- The Institutionalization of The Causality Syndrome -- Create More Space -- References -- Chapter 2: Twenty-five Questions -- Q1. Is Causality a Useful Concept in Social Science? -- Q2. Is Causation the Most Important and Honorable Task in the Social Sciences? -- Q3. Are All Great Social Scientists Famous for Their Causal Analysis? -- Q4. Is Causality Only One Thing? -- Q5. Can You Only Ask One Type of Question About Causality? -- Q6. Is Methodology Prior to Paradigms? -- Q7. Do Methodological Rules Precede Scientific Practice? -- Q8. Is Scientific Progress a Result of Compliance with Methodological Rules? -- Q9. Will Social Science Cleanse Itself of Ideology and Normativity, if it Restricts Itself to Causal Analysis? -- Q10. Does Causation Always Require a Counterfactual? -- Q11. If You Compare Two Groups, Is it then Less Important What the Comparison Is About? -- Q12. Does Reciprocal Causality Mean You Have Not Nailed Genuine Causality? -- Q13. Does the Quality of a Study Depend on Its Place in a Hierarchy of Evidence? -- Q14. Is the Randomized Controlled Trial a Clincher, and All Other Kinds of Studies Just Vouchers? -- Q15. Is a Study Better, the More Control You Have over the Situation? -- Q16. Will Causal Knowledge Accumulate Over Time? -- Q17. Does the Evidence Hierarchy Only Produce Knowledge? -- Q18. Are the Rules for Causal Inference the Same Regardless of the Practical Situation? -- Q19. Can You Sell Your Study by Pretending that Its Design Is Better than it Actually Is? -- Q20. Is Your Career in Jeopardy, if You Do Not Comply with The Causality Syndrome? -- Q21. Are People Primarily Interested in Outcomes? -- Q22. Do We Spend Most of Our Lives Thinking About the Causal Net Effect of X on Y?.

Gendered nationalism : from women to gender and back again? / Mrinalini Sinha -- Construction of gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Muslim Bengal : the writings of Nawab / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan -- Gender, women and partition : literary representations, refugee women and partition studies / Paulomi Chakraborty -- The contact zones of intersectionality : inequality and knowledge production on India / Leela Fernandes -- Dalit feminist thought / Shailaja Paik -- Brahmanical ignorance and dominant Indian feminism's origin stories / Dia D'Costa -- Gender and citizenship in India / Anupama Roy -- Gender, activism and democratic politics in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin -- Law, sex work and activism in India / Prabha Kotiswaran -- The Supreme Court of India and maintenance for Muslim women : transformatory jurisprudence / Vrinda Narain -- Female militancy : reflections from Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama -- Weaponizing women : Kashmir and the Indian military occupation / Ather Zia -- The political economy of moral regulation in Pakistan : religion, gender and class in a postcolonial context / Saadia Toor -- Gender, media and popular culture in a global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri -- Death and friendship : queer archives of the space between / Naisargi Dave -- Women's place-making in Santosh Nagar : gendered constellations / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Vernacular frames queer encounters / Navaneetha Mokil -- Global governance initiatives and garment sector workers in Sri Lanka : tracing its gender and development politics / Kanchana Ruwanpura -- An intersection of Marxism and feminism among India's informal workers : a second marriage? / Rina Agarwala -- A feminist commodity chain analysis of rural transformation in contemporary India / Priti Ramamurthy -- NGOs, state and neoliberal development in South Asia : the paradigmatic case of Bangladesh in a global perspective / Lamia Karim -- Gender and paid domestic work in Sri Lanka / Annemari de Silva -- The Aurat march : women's movements and new feminisms in Pakistan / Shama Dossa -- Feminism, sexual violence and the times of #MeToo in India / Mary John -- Dalit women between social and analytical alterity : rethinking the 'quintessentially marginal' / Manuela Ciotti -- Feminism, sexuality and the rhetoric of westernization in Pakistan : precarious citizenship / Moon Charania -- Mapping women's activism in India : resistances, reforms and (re)-creation / Rukmini Sen.

"'The authors in this inspiring volume focus on the socially transformative potential narrative has to shape understandings of albinism in Africa. Scholars and activists, they reflect on how traditional beliefs, literary fiction, radio, music, photography, film and the arts can bring about social change, and also educate publics about albinism.' - Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural Studies 'Highly intriguing and skillfully nuanced, this book evaluates several methods of advocacy on behalf of people with albinism from Africa, who often face stigma and physical attacks. The result is a rich commentary on what has worked, what didn't and why. This is recommended reading for anyone engaging in advocacy for any marginalized group in parts of Africa and elsewhere.' - Ikponwosa Ero, Former UN Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism The challenges currently faced by people with albinism in many African countries are increasingly becoming a focus of African writers, storytellers, artists and filmmakers across the continent. At the same time, a growing number of advocates and activists are taking account of the power of cultural representation and turning to the arts to convey important messages about albinism - and disability more broadly - to audiences locally and internationally. This volume focuses on the power of cultural representations of albinism, taking into account their real-world effects and implications. Contributions from academics and albinism advocates range across traditional beliefs, literature, radio, newsprint, the media, film and the arts for public engagement, contending that all forms of representation have an important role to play in building sensitivity to the issues related to albinism amongst national and international audiences. Contributors draw attention to the implications of different forms of cultural representation, the potential of these different forms to open up new discursive spaces for the expression of identities and the articulation or critique of particularly difficult issues, and their potential to evoke far-reaching social change"--

The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary IndiaThis pioneering interdisciplinary collection works across mainstream and alternative spaces such as Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Grindr and gay men's health websites. These digital platforms are then situated within the contemporary socio-political conjuncture in India, offering a way of understanding queerness and Indian-ness in contemporary India.Queering in this book does not simply refer to a sexual category rather queerness is a mode of dispossession through which certain bodies are rendered as bodies marked for discipline and regulation. This book takes on diverse strands of queer theory in order to name the ways neoliberalism, nationalism, digital technologies, and movements for queer rights converge with each other within present day India. This analytical approach to queerness in India is the first of its kind and the result is a pioneering interdisciplinary collection.Key FeaturesTakes on diverse strands of queer theory to show where neoliberalism, nationalism, digital technologies and movements for queer rights converge in present-day IndiaIntegrates academic pieces with activist and practitioner narrativesLooks at sexualised online communities: their aims, compositions and potentialitiesDiscusses hook-up apps and social media, and how institutions use them to control, discipline and repressEngages with new forms of queer politics, feminist politics and online activismContributorsNiharika Banerjea, Ambedkar University, New Delhi, IndiaAniruddha Dutta, University of Iowa, USAAmit S. Rai, Queen Mary, University of London, UKJack Harrison-Quintana, independent researcher and Director of Grindr for Equality, USARadhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USARahul Gairola, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, IndiaKareem Khubchandani, Tufts University, USAIla Nagar, Ohio State University, USARohit K Dasgupta, Loughborough University, UKPawan Singh, University of California San Diego, USASneha Krishnan, St John's College, University of Oxford, UKDebanuj DasGupta, University of Connecticut, USAInshah Malik, recently Yale University, USA

"The increasingly global study of policy processes faces challenges with scholars applying theories in radically different national and cultural contexts. Questions frequently arise about how to conduct policy process research comparatively and among this global community of scholars. Methods of the Policy Process is the first book to remedy this situation, not by establishing an orthodoxy or imposing upon the policy process community a rigid way of conducting research, but instead, by allowing the leading researchers in the different theoretical traditions a space to share the means by which they put their research into action. This edited volume serves as a companion volume and supplemental guide to the well-established Theories of the Policy Process, 4th Edition. Methods of the Policy Process acknowledges that growth and advancement in the study of the policy process is dependent not merely on conceptual and theoretical development, but also on developing and systematizing better methodological approaches to measurement and analysis. To maximize student engagement with the material, each chapter follows a similar framework: introduction of a given theory of the policy process, application of that theory (including best practices for research design, conceptualization, major data sources, data collection, and methodological approaches), critical assessment, future directions, and online resources (including datasets, survey instruments, and interview and coding protocols). While the structure and focus of each chapter varies slightly according to the theoretical tradition being discussed, each chapter's central aim is to prepare readers to confidently undertake common methodological strategies themselves. Methods of the Policy Process is especially beneficial to people new to the field, including students enrolled in policy process courses, as well as those without access to formal training. For scholars experienced in applying theories, this edited volume is a helpful reference to clarify best practices in research methods"--

Intro -- Foreword to Pandemic Cities by Baum et al -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 COVID-19 and Australian Cities: When the Pandemic Came to Town -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Pandemic Comes to Town -- 1.3 About This Book -- References -- 2 Population Challenges and Change in Pandemic Cities -- 2.1 The Big Population Questions for COVID Cities -- 2.2 Fortress Australia and International Migration -- 2.3 Sea Change, Tree Change, or No Change: Internal Migration -- 2.4 Where to Next for Australia's Population -- References -- 3 COVID-19 and the Social Structure of Cities: The Forgotten Vulnerable -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Forgotten Vulnerable: Lost in Space -- 3.3 It Wasn't Only Case Numbers That Were Haunting the Forgotten Vulnerable -- 3.4 Singling Out the Forgotten Vulnerable -- 3.5 The Continued Disadvantage of the Hidden Vulnerable -- References -- 4 The Great Job Reshuffle: How COVID-19 Changed Urban Labour Markets -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Australian Economy and the Onset of COVID-19 -- 4.3 The Unequal Labour Market Burden of the Pandemic Shutdown -- 4.4 Some of Us Jumped on Our Scooters -- 4.5 Some of Us Started Working in Our Pyjamas -- 4.6 Essential Workers: Not All Heroes Wear Capes -- 4.7 What Now for the COVID Job Shuffle? -- References -- 5 Housing and the Pandemic -- 5.1 Housing Outcomes in the Pandemic City -- 5.2 COVID-19 Adding to the Housing Crisis -- 5.3 Marginal Housing and Homelessness During COVID-19 -- 5.3.1 Governments to the Rescue -- 5.4 COVID-19 and Rental Financial Stress -- 5.4.1 Governments to the Rescue -- 5.5 Housing and the Post-pandemic City -- References -- 6 Moving Around the COVID City -- 6.1 COVID-19 and the Transport Reshuffle -- 6.2 We Fell Out of Love with Buses (and Other Public Transport) -- 6.3 We Retreated to the 'Safety' of Our Cars -- 6.4 We Got Active.

List of tables -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: two takes, two stories -- Chapter 1 -- leaders and parties in Western Europe -- Party decline and the rise of party leaders -- The focus on party leader selection rules -- Limits and insights of existing studies -- Party change, the personalisation of politics, and openings in party leader selection rules -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2 -- setting the ground: the opening of party leader selection rules -- The dependent variable: party leader selectorate -- Time and space: the case selection and the features of the party leader selectorates -- The research question and the general framework of analysis -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 -- the internal and external factors -- The leadership change -- The membership decline -- The personalisation of politics (1): leaders' control of party organisations -- Party family -- The electoral setback -- The opposition status -- The contagion effect -- The personalisation of politics (2): a general effect -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 -- explaining openings in party leader selection rules -- The empirical analysis -- A first discussion of the insights from the analysis -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 -- the PCI-PDS: the strength of ideology -- Communist ideology and practices in the PCI -- Leader selection in the PCI (and the early PDS): from Natta to Occhetto -- The connection between the PCI and the PDS -- The missed opening of the leader selectorate in the PDS in 1994 -- Ideology strikes back: the victory of D'Alema against Veltroni in 1994 -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 -- the Northern League: the consequences of intra-party divisions -- The Northern League under Umberto Bossi -- The 2012 events: the old guard passes the baton, or does not? -- A divided party, a weaker leadership: the Northern League in 2013 -- The opening of the selectorate in the Northern League in 2013 -- The historical party leader and the rising star: Bossi vs Salvini in 2013 -- Conclusions -- Conclusions: new opportunities for leaders and parties? -- Appendix A -- list of countries and parties -- Appendix B -- specifications on variables' operationalization.

What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and widespread political enthusiasm. But rarely have these historians examined popular political engagement directly, or within the broader contexts of day-to-day life. In this bold and in-depth look at Americans and their politics, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin argue for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. Mining such sources as diaries, letters, autobiographies, novels, cartoons, contested-election voter testimony to state legislative committees, and the partisan newspapers of representative American communities ranging from Massachusetts and Georgia to Texas and California, the authors explore a wide range of political actions and attitudes. They consider the enthusiastic commitment celebrated by historians together with various forms of skepticism, conflicted engagement, detachment, and hostility that rarely have been recognized as part of the American political landscape. Rude Republic sets the political parties and their noisy and attractive campaign spectacles, as well as the massive turnout of voters on election day, within the communal social structure and calendar, the local human landscape of farms, roads, and county towns, and the organizational capacities of emerging nineteenth-century institutions. Political action and engagement are set, too, within the tide of events: the construction of the mass-based party system, the gathering crisis over slavery and disunion, and the gradual expansion of government (and of cities) in the post-Civil War era. By placing the question of popular engagement within these broader social, cultural, and historical contexts, the authors bring new understanding to the complex trajectory of American democracy

"Established by King Carlos III in 1787, the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito is the oldest feminine, secular, philanthropic association in Spain. During the early decades of its existence, the Junta de Damas instituted a series of innovative reforms and scientific experiments as they ran Madrid's foundling hospital, women's prison, and schools for impoverished women and children. Society Women and Enlightened Charity in Spain presents the Junta de Damas as an important, understudied chapter in the history of women's accession to the public sphere, both in Spain and in the wider context of the Enlightenment. An interdisciplinary collaboration between historians and literary scholars in Spain and the United States, this collection provides the first book-length, comprehensive study of the early years of the Junta de Damas. It makes available for the first time in English a holistic account of the early decades of the organization, from its creation in 1787, through the Napoleonic invasion in 1808 and the traumatic years of the Peninsular War, until 1823, when King Felipe VII reestablished absolutism in Spain. In thirteen essays, alongside additional contextual materials, the book situates the Junta de Damas within modern feminist discourses that arose during the Enlightenment and considers its legacy to feminist thought and benevolence in the early liberal era. Biographical sketches highlight the lives of important members of the Junta de Damas, including aristocrats whose portraits were painted by Goya, along with others who dwelled in relative obscurity. Contributors analyze how the Junta de Damas contributed collectively to women's education and helped redefine the spaces of women's charity, as well as how individual members contributed as authors to the Republic of Letters or fashioned portraits that circulated publicly to project the ideal of the enlightened woman. Together, the essays collected in this volume assess the significance of the Junta de Damas as a vital Enlightenment project at the beginning of modern Spanish feminism"--

Illustrious Women of the Muslim University at Aligarh / Dr Faiza Abbasi -- Vanguards of Change: Vignettes of Muslim Women Politicians in India / Dr Shah Alam -- A Muslim Lady Icon, An Unknown Face / Dr S. Chandani Bi -- Indian Muslim Women Scientists as Mentors and Role Models / Dr Mayuri Chaturvedi -- Begum Qudsia Aizaz Rasul: The Only Muslim Woman in India's Constituent Assembly / Dr Tauseef Fatima -- Heralds of Social Change: Women of Abdullah Family Paving the Way for Future Generations / Dr Juhi Gupta -- Saliha Abid Hussain: The Unsung Literary Colossus / Dr Syeda Hameed -- Conversations with the Mother: A Hagiographical Reconstruction of Athankarai Nachiyar - Bibi Syed Ali Fathima / Professor Bharathi Harishankar -- Muslim Women Contributors to the legacy of Urdu literature: Ismat Chugtai and Qurratulain Hyder / Professor Sabiha Hussain -- Begum Akhtar: The Queen Enthralling the World with Her Silken Voice / Professor Naima Khatoon -- Begums of Bhopal: Towards Muslim Women's Education Mr Rasheed Kidwai -- Surayya Tayyabji: The Resolute Woman / Professor Shahida Murtaza / Anees Kidwai: A Warrior Chronicling the Lives of Women during Partition / Professor Azra Musavi -- Razia Sultan: The First Woman Ruler of the Delhi Sultanate / Professor Rekha Pande -- Economic and Educational Contribution of Women in Kashmir with Special reference to Ateeqa Bano / Dr Abida Quansar -- Begum Hamida Habibullah: Soul of Lucknow / Professor Madhu Rajput -- Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: The Educationist and the Writer / Aysha Munira Rasheed -- Lala Ded: A Great Mystic Poetess of Kashmir / Dr Bilal Ahmad Wani and Professor Naseem Ahmad Shah -- Nurjahan: The Mughal Empress / Dr Sherin Shervani -- Articulating Domesticity in Courtly Spaces: Embodiment and Subjectivity in Gulbadan Bano Begum's Humayun-Nama / Dr Shivangini Tandan -- Shareefa Hamid Ali: An Icon in the History of India / Dr Ruchika Varma -- Importance of Women opting Law with an Exemplification of Justice Fathima Beevi / Dr Anam Wasey -- Attia Hosain: Discovering Home and Self in a Distant Land / Dr Huma Yaqub -- Glossary.