Women Who Dared

Women Who Dared is a modest but sincere endeavour to record the contribution that a few representative women have engineered in the socio-cultural landscape of the country over the last fifty years. The readers will get a glimpse of the nation's own biography as it is reflected in the lives of women through their brief comeo autobio graphies. The anthology features women who, in their diverse ways, have not only left a mark of their own but in some significant ways represent the struggles and aspirations of the entire womenfolk. Ritu Menon has been in publishing for over 30 years, and in 1984 she co-founded Kali for Women, India's first feminist press, with Urvashi Butalia. She has written and published widely on publishing in the third world and on women; has co-edited several anthologies of short stories by women; and is co-author of Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition.