Table of Contents 1. The Uncertain Subjects of Femininity: Ethnographic Approaches to Hindu Practice and Female Agency Mary Hancock 2. Women’s Work and Status Enhancement: A Study of Punjabi’s Immigrant Women in Canada Gurpreet Bal 3. The Construction of Gender in the Social Formation of Jaffna Selvy Thiruchandran 4. A Roar on the Other Side of Silence (2 Poems) 5. Women, Religion and the Problem of Memory in Tamil Nadu V. Geetha 6. Partition Widows: The State as Social Rehabilitation Ritu Menon and Kamala Bhasin 7. Practice of Transformative Politics Rounaq Jehan 8. Annie Besant’s many Lives Kumari Jayawardena 9. Global March against Child Labour: A Process of Empowering the Girl Child – A Write Up 10. Glossary of Post-Modern Terms