Social Scientist ADVISORY EDITORS ., ,, . , . . Ashok Mitra ^^Y Joumal ^^ Amalendu Guha Indian School of Social Sciences IrfanHabib VOLUME 13 OCTOBER-NOVEMBER Amiya Bagchi NUMBER 10-11 1985 Kishore Theckedath CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Thomas Isaac (Trivandrum) Sanjaya Baru (Hyderabad) Atis Dasgupta (Calcutta) Javeed Alam (Shimla) V K Ramachandran (Madras) CONTENTS EDITORIAL BOARD Jacob Eapen „..,, »r - i x^r ju n j Editorial Note ' Madhu Prasad ....,., The Woman Question: Perspectives for Today MANAGING EDITOR —Nina Rao 3 Rajendra Prasad EDITOR wom€n9s Education PrabhatPatnaik -Balaji Pande 11 EmoSALOmai fw"ttl"""" -S.^H««ln » 424, V P House, New Delhi-110 001 Exploitation of Women Labour CIRCULATION AND —P.M. Mathew 28 ADVERTISEMENT Modernisation and Marginalisation B-l. Second Floor LSC, —Nirmala Banerjee 48 J Block Sakct. Women's Studies and Crisis in Africa New Delhi-110017 —Marjoric Mbilinyi 72 SUBSCRIPTION RATES* ^n€ ^ff^wr Process and Working at Home INLAND —Sheila Alien 86 3 years Rs 150 Women and the Industrial Reserve Army 2 years Rs 120 —U. Kalpagam 95 Annual Rs 65 Women's Issues in the Performing Arts (Students Rs 50) -Vidya Rao 116 Institutions and Libraries Rs 100 REVIEWS Single copy Rs 12 Testimonies ofNicaraguan Women in Struggle 'Rs 3 extra if by cheque —Shaswati Mazumdar 121 FOREIGN Women and Revolution in Vietnam (Annual in U S dollars) —N.R. 126 Sea Mail: 30 Tyranny of the Household Air Mail: 40 —Jayoti Gupta 128 Articles and reviews express the views of the authors and not necessarily of the editors or of the Indian School of Social Sciences.