Jana Everett, Department Chair, Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1976
Areas of Interest:
Comparative politics; South Asia; gender and international development; feminist movements, methodologies.
Teaching
- Politics and Governments of South Asia
- Gender and International Development
- Gender and Politics
- Women's Rights, Human Rights: Global Perspectives
- Research Methods
Select Publications
Everett, Jana (2001) All the women were Hindu and all the Muslims were men: State, identity politics and gender, 1917-1951. Economic and Political Weekly 36 (23): 2071-80.
Everett, Jana (1998) Indian feminists debate teh efficacy of policy reforms: The Maharashtra ban on sex-determination tests. Social Politics 5: 314-37.
Everett, Jana (1994) Jana Everett and Mira Savara, Women and Organizations in the Informal Sector. New Delhi: Himalaya Publishing House.
Everett, Jana (1989) Sue Ellen M. Charlton, Jana Everett and Kathleen Staudt (ed.) Women, the State, and Development, Albany: State University of New York Press.
Everett, Jana (1984) Bank Loans to the Poor in Bomvay. Do Women Benefit? Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 10, No. 2, pp. 272-290. (With M. Savara) Reprinted in Women and Poverty, B.C. Gelpi,et al., eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1986) pp. 83-102.
Everett, Jana (1979) Women and Social Change in India, New Delhi: Heritage and New York: St. Martin's Press.