This book is the last of the four-volume Festschrift Modernization,
Globalization and Social Transformation in honour of one of the stalwarts of
sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh. In this volume entitled Gender,
Identity and Multiple Marginalities papers have been placed in two sections:
women/gender and identity and multiple marginalities. The first part of the
volume looks at the gender dimension of globalization covering issues such as
women in cyberspace, women in sciences, safety of women, economic equality and
gender neutrality, women in urban space etc. Gender being the central issue of
discussion in the first part, the second part touches upon important issue of
identity and marginalization