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The book deals with the contemporary concerns of women in India. The essays that have previously been published in a special issue of Nivedini are drawn from different social science disciplines which converge in the interdisciplinary terrain of women's studies in its analysis of womens experiences. The essays examine the ways in which women have negotiated and challenged structures of power through the women's movement which is also undergoing shifts in perspectives recent times. The chapters discuss Dalit women's struggles Muslim women's negotiation within their communities for greater equality the role of state to gendeand its commitment r concerns the changes life styles roles and status of the pastoral women in the Himalayan region and the negotiations for autonomy and agency in family life in the works of feminist fiction which is one repository of cultural imagination that indicates alternate life worlds. Issues of feminist epistemology and pedagogical concerns of Women's studies in India are also highlighted.