Background
Ritu Menon was born on December 25, 1949 in India, into the family of public servant and a teacher.
124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA
Ritu Menon received her Master of Arts degree at Vassar College in 1969.
Ritu Menon announcing the longlist
Ritu Menon at her office. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
124 Raymond Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA
Ritu Menon received her Master of Arts degree at Vassar College in 1969.
Ritu Menon announcing the longlist
Ritu Menon at her office. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty
https://www.amazon.com/Against-All-Odds-Religion-Development/dp/8185107742/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of I...)
As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration, violence between Hindus and Muslims, and mass widowhood were unprecedented and well-documented.
https://www.amazon.com/Borders-Boundaries-Women-Experienced-Partition/dp/0813525527/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(After the death of her baby, Urmi's finds her own path di...)
After the death of her baby, Urmi's finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two unlikely women—a long-dead relative and a young girl in a coma. As the stories of these three women unravel so does a tale of quiet courage and unfaltering hope.
https://www.amazon.com/Binding-Vine-Shashi-Deshpande/dp/155861267X/?tag=2022091-20
2001
https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Afterword-Deshpande-1-May-2001-Paperback/dp/B013PT18B2/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(This volume explores certain key issues in the lives of M...)
This volume explores certain key issues in the lives of Muslim women in India. It is based on comprehensive survey research and fieldwork, the first of its kind done on Muslim women in India. It analyzes the contemporary state of education, employment opportunity, and marriage and other key indicators of development that map qualitative change in the lives of women.
https://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Citizens-Study-Muslim-Women/dp/019566535X/?tag=2022091-20
2004
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Dared-Ritu-Menon/dp/B00N81S4BK/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughati, Sara Suleri...)
Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughati, Sara Suleri, Anis Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, Meghna Guhathakurta, Shehla Shibli, Manikuntala Sen, Kamlaben Patel and many others, speaking and writing about communalism and literature; what they learnt from refugees; and what Partition means to them more than 50 years later.
https://www.amazon.com/No-Womans-Land-Bangladesh-Partition/dp/8188965049/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Based on recent empirical work, the essays in this volume...)
Based on recent empirical work, the essays in this volume present the diversity of Muslim women's lives in all its complexity.
https://www.amazon.com/Minority-Essays-Muslim-Women-India/dp/0195665848/?tag=2022091-20
2005
https://www.amazon.com/Educating-Muslim-Girls-2005-07-01-Hardcover/dp/B012TRWAUY/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(To what extent does Muslim personal law, such as polygamy...)
To what extent does Muslim personal law, such as polygamy and triple talaq (the allowance for men to instantly divorce their wives), affect the lives of Muslim women? Are these factors more or less important than other lifestyle issues such as socioeconomic status? The essays examine Muslim identity, not only in terms of religious doctrine, but as a heterogeneous set of characteristics produced at the intersections of class, religion, and gender. Addressing issues of law, politics, education, race, and other neglected secular subjects, this volume is essential reading for policy-makers, social activists, and scholars.
https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Muslim-Womens-Lives-India/dp/0813537037/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Never before has a single volume featured non-fiction wri...)
Never before has a single volume featured non-fiction writing by women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh on the Partition of India. Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughtai, Sara Suleri, Anis Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, Meghna Guhathakurta, Shehla Shibli, Manikuntala Sen.
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Writer-Partition-Pakistan-Hardcover/dp/9694025044/?tag=2022091-20
2006
(From the late 1970s to the present, feminists in India ha...)
From the late 1970s to the present, feminists in India have had to deal with spiralling violence against women and the alarming ramifications of its forms, as well as assess their strategies to combat It. This monograph reviews twenty-five yers of protest and action by them, in an attempt to take both our analysis and theories forward. It maps the trajectory of feminist organizing in India in the post-Emergency period, after 1977.
https://www.amazon.com/Mathura-Manorama-Resisting-Violence-Feminist/dp/8188965359/?tag=2022091-20
2007
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Difference-Memoirs-Movement-2011-08-08/dp/B01K15AOS6/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Nayantara Sahgal's life folds history into experience. Ri...)
Nayantara Sahgal's life folds history into experience. Ritu Menon unfolds that experience into a historical narrative of surpassing appeal.
https://www.amazon.com/Out-Line-Political-Biography-Nayantara/dp/9351365956/?tag=2022091-20
2014
https://www.amazon.com/Loitering-Intent-Diary-Happy-Traveller-ebook/dp/B01M9G3WBE/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Ritu Menon was born on December 25, 1949 in India, into the family of public servant and a teacher.
Ritu Menon received her Master of Arts degree at Vassar College in 1969.
Ritu Menon is a publisher and writer who co-founded Kali for Women, India's first and oldest feminist press, in 1984. She has also written extensively on women and religion; women and violence; women in situations of armed conflict; and on the gendering of citizenship, through her work on women and the nation.
Menon is the author of Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition (1998), a ground-breaking study in Partition historiography; has co-authored Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India (2004); and Educating Muslim Girls: A Comparison of Five Indian Cities (2005); and co-edited In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India (2005).
She has also edited No Woman's Land: Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write on the Partition of India (2004), and several anthologies of stories by Indian women. Ritu works as a founding member of Women's WORLD (International), an international free-speech network of writers working on gender-based censorship, worldwide. Her latest book (co-authored with Kalpana Kannabiran) is titled From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence Against Women in India (2007).
Ritu Menon is highly famous as the author of books In Other Words: New Writing by Women in India, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South, and Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition. In 2011, Menon and Urvashi Butalia were jointly conferred the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, by the Government of India.
(To what extent does Muslim personal law, such as polygamy...)
2005(Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughati, Sara Suleri...)
2004(From the late 1970s to the present, feminists in India ha...)
2007(Never before has a single volume featured non-fiction wri...)
2006(Based on recent empirical work, the essays in this volume...)
2005(As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of I...)
1998(This volume explores certain key issues in the lives of M...)
2004(After the death of her baby, Urmi's finds her own path di...)
2001(Nayantara Sahgal's life folds history into experience. Ri...)
2014Ritu Menon described her political views as “left / liberal.”
Ritu Menon's writing focuses on violence against women, religion's take on women and the gender divide across the society from a strongly feminist and left-wing perspective.
Ritu Menon is a feminist.
Ritu Menon married an architect A.G. Krishna Menon on August 28, 1969. They have a daughter Ratna.
