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The author traces the kind of power and resources that the Indian women's movement has utilized in its struggle to bring attention to women's subordination. It is her contention that by focusing on issues of violence against women (rape, dowry deaths, wife-beating, sati), the Indian women's movement has been able to provoke media notice, to secure public and state attention to women's issues and thus to exert influence far in excess of its numerical power or organizational cohesiveness. (DÜI-Sen)