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Kumar reviews 'In the Shadow of Change: Women in Indonesian Literature' by Tineke Hellwig.

"This edited collection of essays brings together discussions on the role, representation and perception of women from the early 1900s to the present day. Each of the chapters are strong on the diverse ways in which gender and radical discrimination are rooted within topics like, education, media, literature, sex and culture. The innovative and originality of this book dwells within the fact that the essays are written by women on the topic of women, giving the collection an all-female narrative and space"--

Distinguishing differences : the otherness of women in Rabbinic Judaism -- Constructing Eve : midrashic revisions of human creation -- Eve's curses : female disadvantages and their justifications -- Fruitful vines and silent partners : women as wives in Rabbinic literature -- Why were the matriarchs barren? : resolving the anomaly of female infertility -- A separate people : Rabbinic delineations of the worlds of women.

<div><p><em>For any research, literature review is an essential part as it helps in identifying the area of research. Agriculture is the main source of sustenance for both developing and under developed countries. In countries like India, women's position is not as strong as men both economically and socially and she faces more constraints than men. They cannot relocate easily. Women in rural areas have to manage multiple activities like maintaining home, making food, arranging water etc. and they are working in farms also. So, they are living hard life. All the activities performed by rural women is essential for the well-being of the rural households, still they are not defined as 'economically active employment' in national accounts. In India, 24 percent to total workers work as female cultivators and 41.1 percent to total workers work as female agricultural labourers. Past studies also relieved that because of less education, unawareness about the laws, poverty and gender discrimination, women workers face many problems. Also, few studies show that in some parts of the nation women workers are being paid less than the male workers. This Paper reviews past research studies to highlight the role and position of women workers in agricultural sector. </em></p></div>

PurposeThis paper aims to organize the existing empirical research on women entrepreneurs (WEs) in India, highlight the research areas that have not received attention and present opportunities for future research.Design/methodology/approachA systematic literature review (SLR) was performed on 74 scholarly articles focusing on WEs in India and published between 1993 and 2020. This review is structured around the 4W framework used in previous SLRs. The review is directed by the following foci: what do we know about academic research on WEs in India? How were these studies conducted? Where were these studies conducted? Why should academicians and practitioners consider WE research?FindingsThe authors arrived at four main themes underlying the empirical research on WEs: success factors for WEs, challenges faced by WEs, factors that attract and motivate WEs and performance measures for WEs. While challenges and success factors have received attention from researchers, there is a distinct lack of papers on factors that attract or motivate WE and performance measures. The main gaps identified were a lack of theoretical basis in studies, reliance on interview and survey-based methodology and a lack of context-specific studies.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings of this review are limited to WEs operating in India. Only Scopus-indexed journals listed in the Australian Business Dean's Council Journal Quality List (ABDC JQL) were included in the final SLR list.Originality/valueThis is one of the first studies to use a systematic approach to provide a detailed account of the state of the literature on women's entrepreneurship research in India.

Diasporic Iranian visual literature in the form of graphic narratives -- Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis -- Parsua Bashi's Nylon road -- Diasporic Iranian visual literature manifested in the art of Shirin Neshat : photo-poetry and poetic film -- Shirin Neshat's political(ized) aesthetics -- Neshat moving on to movies.