The Puzzle of Women's Political Participation in India...........

The Political Lives of Indian Women: Argument in Brief........

The Stakes........

Empirical Strategy........

Overview of the Book........

Patriarchy, Inequality, and the Political Lives of Rural Indian Women........

The Patriarchal Social Order in Rural India........

Gender Inequality in India........

The Political Lives of Rural Indian Women........

A Relational Theory of Women's Political Participation........

The Private Roots of Political Exclusion........

Contesting the Patriarchal Political Order........

THE PATRIARCHAL POLITICAL ORDER........

The Patriarchal Political Household........

Data and Method........

Household Political Cooperation........

What Sustains Household Political Cooperation?........

Political Behavior under Household Cooperation........

Modeling Political Participation........

Household Power and Political Participation........

Autonomy from the Household and Political Participation........

The Patriarchal Political Order: Networks and the Nature of Political Organization........

The Nature of Political Organization........

Broader Impacts of the Structure of Political Organization........

The Power of Autonomy from the Household and Women's Collective Action........

Self-Help Groups........

Research Design and Data........

SHGs and Political Behavior........

SHGs and Women's Collective Action........

Alternative Explanation: Economic Resources........

Consciousness-Raising as the Ignition for Collective Action........

A Gender Consciousness-Raising Program........

Research Design........

The Gender Program and Women's Political Participation........

Pathways to Participation........

The Gender Program and Attitudes........

Alternative Explanation: Economic Resources and Bargaining Power........

Women's Mobilization across India and Its Portents........

A Brief History of the Indian Women's Movement........

What Women Demand Backlash to Women's Activism........

Studying Gender