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Summary:

Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, casteism, and communalism, and a startling picture emerges of how NGOs both nourish and stifle local struggles for solidarity.

Table of Contents:

• The beginnings of a collective journey
• A very short childhood
• From the streets of Babul to the wetness of Aanchal
• Prisons within prisons : battles stretching from the courtyard to the mind
• Cracking cages, new skies
• Challenges of NGOization and dreams of Sangtin.

Author/Creator:

Nagar, Richa , author

Languages:

English
Hindi

Language Notes:

Translated from the Hindi.

Main Work:

Playing with fire: feminist thought and activism through seven lives in India [by Nagar, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Playing with fire [by Nagar, R.] (Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, ©2006 — ISBN 0816647690; ISBN 9780816647699; LCCN 2006005608; OCLC Number 64486253)

Subjects:

Saṅgatina (Organization)

Women's rights — India — Uttar Pradesh

Marginality, Social — India — Uttar Pradesh

Women's rights

Marginality, Social

India — Uttar Pradesh

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181).
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlvii, 181 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1236.5.I4 N34 2006eb

ISBNs:

9780816698271 (electronic bk.)
0816698279 (electronic bk.)
0816647690 (hc, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780816647699 (hc, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0816647704 (pb, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780816647705 (pb, alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

166289985