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Ritu Menon
Ritu Menon Ritu Menon founded India’s first and most well known feminist publishing house, Kali for Women. She has written and edited several books, including Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition; Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion, and Development from India and Pakistan; and Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South. Her most recent book is Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India, co-authored with Zoya Hasan.

Menon is active in the women’s and women’s studies movements in India and South Asia, working collaboratively with many individuals and organizations in the region on a wide range of issues. She is a founder-member of Women's WORLD, an international free-speech network of writers and publishers, which has worked with over 200 women writers in India on the question of gender-based censorship.
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Wednesday, April 26 at 2:00
Honor Killings: When Families Commit Murder to Save Face

Wednesday, April 26 at 4:00
Translation in South Asia

Friday, April 28 at 2:00
Globalization, Fundamentalism, & Women
Menon Online
Read her article "The Right to Write—and Be Read." >>More

Read an interview with Menon and Zoya Hasan. >>More
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