This paper explores one of the key issues in current research on gender and development: the links between poverty and young women’s employment. Specifically, the following questions were addressed, in the context of Kerala: Which young women work for pay and why?

The family may broadly be perceived as a unit of two or more persons

India has emerged as one of the major garment producing and exporting

Shikar or game hunting In India was one of the sites on which the colonial project tried to construct and affirm the difference between Its ·superior' self and the lnferiorlsed 'native' other.

In this paper an attempt is made to explore the determination

We use data from the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India to examine (a) sex ratios among infants aged under 2, (b) child mortality (q5) by sex, and (c) estimated period sex ratios at birth (SRB) calculated by reverse survival methods, to see whether bias against female children pers

Conventional measures of the ‘ femaleness’ of a population – measures such as the female headcount ratio F and the sex- ratio S—are insensitive to the precise age-specific d