Interview with Urvashi Butalia
Global Feminisms Project
2004-11-05
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Abstract
Urvashi Butalia is a co-founder (in 1984) of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house. In 2003, Urvashi launched a new venture, Zubaan, which is an imprint of Kali. She obtained her undergraduate and master degrees in literature from Delhi University, and a Master’s in South Asian Studies from the University of London in 1977. She has worked as an editor at the Oxford University Press and Zed Press Books for several years, and has also held a position of reader at the college of vocational studies at Delhi University for over 20 years where she taught book publishing. Butalia is very active in the Indian women’s movement, and is a dedicated civil rights activist as well. She has also edited and authored several books, including the anthology, Speaking Peace: Women’s Voice from Kashmir, and with Tanika Sarkar, Women and the Hindu Right. She is the co-author with Ritu Menon of Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South, and author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. She has won several awards for her work, among them the Nikai Asia Prize for Culture in 2003 in Japan for her work as an author and co-founder of Kali for Women; the Oral History Association Book Award in 2001 in the U.S. for The Other Side of Silence, and the Pandora Women in Publishing Award in 2000 in the UK.Series/Report no.
Global Feminisms Cross-site
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Global, Feminism, Feminists, Intersectionality, Cross-cultural, United States, American Feminists, U.S. Feminists, India, Indian Feminists
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The Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include:
- Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL
- China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA
- SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA
- Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA
- Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLAND
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