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Shastri News - July 2009

New Publications

Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women
Parin Dossa, Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University
University of Toronto Press © 2009

In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life.

Women’s Health and Poverty Alleviation in India
K.S. Mohindra
New Delhi: Academic Foundation © 2009

Poverty and ill health are intertwined; therefore, social responses need to address the links between the two. There has been increasing attention paid towards the role of microcredit as a poverty alleviation strategy (that especially targets women), yet little scrutiny of how microcredit may influence population health in general and women’s health in particular. In this book, we ask: can microcredit be considered a “pro-health” poverty alleviation strategy for women?

K.S. Mohindra is currently a Global Health Post Doctoral Fellow (Canadian Institutes of Health Research) at the School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia and is affiliated with the International Health Unit, Centre de rehcerche du CHUM.

Journey through Breast Cancer
Jayashree Thatte Bhat, PhD.
New Delhi: Diamond Pocket Books © 2009

The topic of breast cancer carries a social stigma among women, even the educated ones, in India. Women who develop this disease are quite reluctant to talk about it openly with anyone, including their own family members. Ignorance and lack of accurate medical information further complicates the problem. This book documents the concerns, responses and emotions of afflicted women in different age groups. It is a story of five women, coming from five different regions of India and five different walks of life.

Jayashree Thatte Bhat, PhD, a Medical Researcher, Writer, Social worker, Lecturer and an accomplished Musician, has been working at creating awareness of this disease through her lectures, workshops and writings for the last ten years in India. She has met, educated, lectured and talked with literally thousands of breast cancer victims and their families in India.

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