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Synopsis Gender Studies is a multi-disciplinary subject where new dimensions are suggested in understanding women’s position. Gender Studies, as a discipline is gaining immense importance with the march of time and the need to incorporate women’s problems in the higher educational systems has been felt throughout the world. Assorted women’s groups all over the world are working on the theoretical and practical base of the emerging academic discipline. In order to break the silence about women’s role in the society as well as their problems, women have to be brought out from invisibility to visibility. Present study incorporates various aspects: of gender from its subversion to immigration, marriage to motherhood, women of religion, state, politics and finally at work through the lanes and bylanes of history. This book covers a vast spectrum with vivid colours of the rainbow of womanhood. It unearths various moods and achievements of women from the Far East to Europe, covering, USA and Central America as well. Experiences are almost same across the cultural boundaries. This book will be of immense value to the students of history, sociology, scholars, researchers, feminists and all those working for the cause of women.