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020			_a9781620977941 _q(hardcover)
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092			_aJAIN, D. _bJ25
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100	1		_aJain, Devaki, _d1933- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe brass notebook : _ba memoir of feminism and freedom / _cDevaki Jain.
264		1	_aNew York : _bThe New Press, _c2022.
300			_axix, 215 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published by Speaking Tiger Books, New Delhi, 2020"--Title page verso.
520			_a"When she was barely thirty, the Indian feminist economist Devaki Jain befriended Doris Lessing, Nobel winner and author of The Golden Notebook, who encouraged Jain to write her story. Over half a century later, Jain has crafted what Desmond Tutu has called "a riveting account of the life story of a courageous woman who has all her life challenged what convention expects of her." Across an extraordinary life intertwined with those of Iris Murdoch, Gloria Steinem, Julius Nyerere, Henry Kissinger, and Nelson Mandela, Jain navigated a world determined to contain her ambitions. While still a young woman, she traveled alone across the subcontinent to meet Gandhi's disciple Vinoba Bhave, hitchhiked around Europe in a sari, and fell in love with a Yugoslav at a Quaker camp in Saarbrücken. She attended Oxford University, supporting herself by washing dishes in a local café. Later, over the course of an influential career as an economist, Jain seized on the cause of feminism, championing the poor women who labored in the informal economy long before mainstream economics attended to questions of inequality. With a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and an introduction by the well-known American feminist Gloria Steinem, whose own life and career were inspired by time spent with Jain, The Brass Notebook perfectly merges the political with the personal--a book full of life, ideas, politics, and history."-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aJain, Devaki, _d1933-
650		0	_aFeminists _zIndia _vBiography.
610	2	0	_aUnited Nations _xOfficials and employees _vBiography. _969743
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