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The Magna Carta gave specific rights to those who owned land. Here, Menon reports how Indian women find property ownership gives them more power to be heard. There are increasing numbers of women engaged in agricultural work as men migrate to urban areas in search of paid jobs. Although rural women are responsible for 60%-80% of India's food production, only 9% own the land they till, according to government figures. As of 2005, Hindu women can now inherit all property equally, and sons and daughters have equal co-parcenary rights: that is they can be joint heirs to an undivided property. Non-Hindu women on the other do not enjoy such rights. Adapted from the source document.

THEY CALL THEM MATTERS OF 'HONOUR', BUT THERE IS NOTHING BUT DISHONOUR IN WHAT MEN DO TO WOMEN WHO FLOUT THEIR CODE

CENSORSHIP OF WOMEN BY THE USE OF VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION IN INDIA'S PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY IS MORE PERVASIVE AND HARDER TO CONFRONT THAN THE OFFICIAL VARIETY

Tracing the early connections between feminist publishing and the women's movement in a somewhat nostalgic mode before going on to note the decline in the feminist publishing trade today, we encounter the paradoxical situation in which this decline is marked by the rapid and significant spread of women's studies in the academy, the large number of feminist writings that are now being published by mainstream publishing houses, and the major impact of the women's movement upon governments' and international bodies' policies worldwide. Because of the commitment that feminist presses have towards feminist causes, we believe that feminist publishing is an activity that must retain its 'autonomy and solidarity' in order to retain its political potential.