Maitreyee Chaudhuri is retired professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has written extensively on different aspects of gender studies and on the cultural and political aspects of globalisation. Her works include Refashioning India: Gender, Media and a Transformed Public Discourse, The Indian Women’s Movement: Reform and Revival, and The Practice of Sociology, among others. Her research interests are in the area of cultural and political aspects of globalization, and pedagogical questions.