Aimed at students, teachers, scholars and activists, this reader servers as an introduction to cultural studies and the range of issues that encompass it. It highlights the dialectical nature of culture as a site of womens oppression as well as of feminist resistance and transformation. The editors focus on both material and symbolic dimensions of cultural politics and its changing significance in relation to gender, community, caste, class, borders, sexuality and disability. Contributors: Flavia Agnes; Purushottam Agrawal; Jasodhara Bagchi; Krishna Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji Bandyopadhyay; Urvashi Butalia, Paromita Chakravarti; Uma Chakravarti; Supriya Chaudhuri; Amlan Das Gupta; Nabaneeta Dev Sen; Anita Ghai; Tapati Guha-Thakurta; Mary John; Anjum Katyal; K. Lalita; Kavita Panjabi; Modhumita Roy; Kumkum Sangari; Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; Susie Tharu and; Rosie Thomas, V Geetha and Ruth Vanita.