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Chup: Breaking the Silence About India’s Women
Cover
Preface
1. Introduction: The Making of a Woman
2. Body: Women Don’t Have Bodies, Besharam
3. Voice: Shut Up and Shut Down, Chup
4. Pleasing: Just Slide, Squeeze, Shrink,
5. Sexuality: Please God, Don’t Give Me Those Breasts
6. Isolation: I Am Alone and Afraid, Keep Women Apart, Akeli Hoon, Darti Hoon
7. Identity: The Clash between Duty and Desire
8. Closing Reflections: Redefine Power and Morality
Chapter 9
Preface
Author’s Note
I did not set out to do research or to write a book. Having written seventeen books on poverty policies and poor people’s empowerment published by the World Bank and academic presses, I had decided not to write any more. But this book forced itself upon me. It emerged from my determination not to be complacent after the rape of Jyoti Singh, or Nirbhaya. The brutality of the rape, the public outrage, the non-stop news coverage and the fact that it happened in my Delhi shook me, like millions of others, to the core. The public debate focused on law and order and the police and to a much lesser extent on the issue of culture.
As a trained social scientist I decided to turn to the cultural question. But culture is a big idea. What is it about a culture that can explain both rape and everyday sexism? The question began to obsess me. I was invited to give talks on poverty and development in Delhi, and  I said I would go if I could explore the gender question. As I talked to young women and men at the renowned St Stephen’s College in Delhi one afternoon, I was startled by what I heard. One young woman said her seven-year-old niece, who loves chocolates, gave her only piece of chocolate, without being asked, to her nine-year-old cousin brother when he demanded more than his share. The reverse never happened. Nor was    it expected. The definitions of a woman given by some of the brightest male and female students dripped with words like ‘nice, caring, compromising’.
After what I heard from women and men at St Stephen’s, I went to Gargi College, Lady Shri Ram College and Amity University. And then one more college. And so it continued. I could not stop. I also met women and men in their homes, in cafes, in universities, in malls, in offices, in airports and in parks. I met women, men and children living mostly in Delhi, but also in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. I was surprised by what I heard from women who were competent, educated, gender aware and often fighting for gender rights. Of ............

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