Resources
Publications
Since Sangat is a South Asian organisation, many of the books listed below have been translated in South Asian languages such as Urdu, Bangla, Sinhalese, Tamil as well as in many Indian languages such as Hindi, Malyalam, Gujarati, Marathi and so on. Some books have also been translated in Arabic and Turkish. For enquries about the books, posters or banners, write to us at sangat@sangatsouthasia.org or contact us at the Sangat office at B 114, Shivalik, Malviya Nagar, Delhi, India.
In Hindi
Dhammak Dham
This collection of Hindi songs for children is meant to instill in children roles and responsibilities in an equal and happy family. It covers various activities that young children are being trained in such as bathing, eating healthy, brushing their teeth, while also projecting mothers and fathers beyond their typical roles of home maker or bread-winner respectively.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 25
Ulti Sulti Meeto
This long, pictorial poem emphasizes the need to allow children, especially girl children, to imagine and explore while also urging parents or adults to encourage girls to live a fuller childhood that is free from gendered restrictions. From a tender age, girls are pulled into house work and not allowed to play or study as much as boys. This book helps parents recognize such discrimination and end it.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 70
Ulti Sulti Amma
Based on the premise that a child gives birth to a mother, the book explodes the repressive myth of the kind, gentle, sacrificing mother and creates an alternative motherhood which is more realistic and tolerant of a woman's experience of mothering.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 70
Mard, mardangi aur mardvad
The booklet explains in lucid details the concept of masculinity, in that what it means to be a man in our culture—its pre-determined roles and rights, their sexual identities, the social and cultural norms men have to be prescribe to and the implications of all this in the lives of women and our society at large.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 60
Ladki kya hai; ladka kya hai, What is a girl? What is a boy? (Bilingual)
The booklet highlights how our language, culture and traditions create artificial, discriminatory, pre-determined and unequal role and behaviour patterns between girls and boys.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 55
In English
Women, war and peace: Security Council Resolution 1325
The Security Council Resolution 1325 is an important tool to make place for women in conflict resolution and towards the protection of women and girls during conflicts. The booklet explains the background, rationale, main features, usefulness and also some weaknesses of the resolution.
Publisher: Peace Women Across the Globe and Sangat
Author: Anuradha Chenoy
Laughing matters
It introduces laughter and joy in the otherwise-anger and angst-ridden world of feminists who are perceived as angry, men-haters1 Packed with cartoon, graffiti and jokes, the booklet recapitulates matter that has been told and re-told by feminists for many years.
Publisher: Jagori
Authors: Kamla Bhasin and Bindia Thapar
Price: Rupees 50
South Asian Feminist Declaration 2006
Women’s movements in South Asian countries have been one of the most important forces of challenge and resistance to various systems of discrimination, exploitation and oppressions that exist in South Asia. The joint declaration articulates the commitment of South Asian feminists to link together in concrete actions, formulating and campaigning on a joint charter of women’s rights, sharing visions and developing alternatives to existing development models at the South Asian level from a feminist perspective.
Publisher: Sangat
(Not for sale; copies for distribution)
A Feminist Response to the Proposal for a People’s Union of South Asia
The pamphlet encapsulates, as the title suggests, lays bare a feminist perspective on the creation of a People’s Union of South Asia towards peace, democracy, inclusive and diverse friendship and greater economic, political and social cooperation and integration.
Publisher: Sangat
(Not for sale; copies for distribution)
IF ONLY someone had broken the silence
(Hindi translation: Kaash mukhe kisi ne bataya hota)
The booklet explains to children, especially girls, about what constitutes sexual violence and how they could address it.
Publisher: Sangat & Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 20
Understanding gender
(Hindi translation: Bhala yeh gender kya hai?)
A lucid description of the concept of ‘gender’ in feminist discourse deals with questions like the relationship’ between ‘’gender’ and ‘women’; the difference between ‘gender and development’, gender and patriarchy; and between gender, caste and class. A must for everyone, especially those working on gender training.
Publisher: Women Unlimited
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 70
What is patriarchy? (Hindi translation: Pitrasatta kya hai?)
The pamphlet introduces patriarchy as an analytical category in understanding women’s subordination, how it is constituted, its origin, and how it has evolved historically in different parts of the world. It locates women’s struggles in a context where the patriarchal control of major special and political institutions makes for specials forms of discrimination against women.
Publisher: Women Unlimited
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 45
Feminism and its relevance in South Asia
This text answers basic and the most commonly questions on feminism such as what is feminism and why is it charged as being imported, western and thus irrelevant for women in South Asia? Why are feminists considered to be rebel?
Publisher: Women Unlimited
Authors: Kamla Bhasin and Nighat Said Khan
Price: Rupees 45
Exploring masculinity
This pamphlet explores the meaning of masculinity and its importance for gender relations, social arrangements, political and economic systems, and religious and family ideologies. It looks at hegemonic masculinity, militant masculinity, working class and bourgeois masculinity; it examines the link between communalism, fundamentalism and masculinity, and capitalism and masculinity. It highlights the impact of negative both masculinity and femininity on women and men, and suggests alternatives for transforming gender relations.
Publisher: Women Unlimited
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 70
Turning dangers into opportunities
A colourful, friendly book for youngsters, it explains how HIV and AIDS are caused and how it can be prevented, especially for women as they are more vulnerable.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 100
Reports and Reflections
Gender workshops with men (In Hindi: Purushon ke saath gender karyashalayen)
Based on her years of work experience conducting workshops with men on issues such as gender and masculinity, Kamla Bhasin offers a candid and comprehensive overview of the need and the need to involve and engage with men.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 25
Development and Sustainable Development
(Hindi translation: Vikaas aur sattat vikaas)
A critique of so-called ‘development, the essay problematizes the concept and model of development as based on capitalist, profit-based, individualistic world view. Instead it offers a sustainable, alternative model that privileges the masses as well as nature and ecology.
Publisher: Jagori
Author: Kamla Bhasin
Price: Rupees 20
Empowering Others, Empowering Self
A report on the 2005 feminist capacity-building course on gender, development and human rights, it presents the objectives, methodology, contents – gender and patriarchy, women’s movements and feminism, violence against women and girls, globalization, law and so on – reflections and so on.
Publisher: Sangat
(Not for sale; copies for distribution)
Feminist Activism in the 21st Century
This is a report of a South Asian Feminist Meet held in Sri Lanka in 2006. It raises questions issues and challenges about neo-liberal globalization, neo-imperialism, conflicts of identity, globalization and alternative vision, kinds of violence, women’s movements and religion and fundamentalism and so on.
Publisher: Sangat
Authors: Dina M. Siddiqi and Malathi de Alwis
The Political Economy of VAWF and Masculinity
A report based on a South Asian workshop held in 2005, it delves into various kinds of violence such as domestic violence, honour killings in South Asia, the politics of displacement, dowry, abortion and population control policies and so on.
(Not for sale; copies for distribution)
Papers
Women, Trade, Ecology and Development: the context in South Asia
Jointly written by the above-mentioned authors, the paper explores the impact of ‘development’ on the domestication of women’s movement, the shifting control of resources after globalization and privatization and the struggle of women at the grassroots with these larger forces.
Publisher: Sangat
Authors: Nalini Nayak and V. Rukmini Rao
Hindi songs
This collection of Hindi songs for children is meant to instill in children roles and responsibilities in an equal and happy family. It covers various activities that young children are being trained in such as bathing, eating healthy, brushing their teeth, while also projecting mothers and fathers beyond their typical roles of home maker or bread-winner respectively. Contact distribution@jagori.org for a copy of the CD.
Price: Rs. 100
Banners and posters
Sangat has a collection of over 200 colouful cloth banners on themes such as democracy, justice, women's rights, human rights, peace, globalization and so on. Some of these can viewed from the link below. We lend our banners to some of its partners organisations for use on various public occassions such as rallies, protests, sit-ins, workshops and so on.
The posters displayed at the link below are available for sale at the Jagori office in Delhi. Please contact distribution@jagori.org
Click here to view banners and posters
