This article presents in-depth ethnographic evidence of women’s lived experience of arranged marriages and love marriages, their agency and constraints in a working class neighbor hood of New Delhi.

In many states of India, there are several evidences that indicate a widespread practice of using female birth intervention. As a result, an alarmingly lowest ever sex ratio in the age group 0-6 has been reported by the 2001 census.

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What is women’s studies? Is it a discipline? Subject? What should a women’s studies' programme connote and what obtains in practice?

The female body is a contested terrain the world over. Constructed differently in different contexts it remains a site where power is played out.