Publisher's Synopsis
In this collection of essays, women's studies scholars and practitioners from South and Southeast Asia, share their thoughts on themselves as women, and on the impact of women's studies on their lives and works. The writers reflect on their individual life stories and trace the different trajectories of their involvement in the field of women's studies. In doing so they lay bare a dimension, that all to often, remains hidden in accounts of the discipline - that of the personal - and shows how it is interwoven with the political.
