Books & Chapters

Below are books authored by Dr. K Saradamoni in English and Malayalam.

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In Search of Answers

A Memoir, Tulika Books, Delhi (2023)

The Scribe Remembered

N.Gopinathan Nair; his Life and Times. This bi-lingual book was self published.(2012)

Matriliny Transformed

Family, Law and Ideology in Twentieth Century Travancore, Sage, (1999)

Finding the Household

Finding the Household

Filling the Rice Bowl

Women in Paddy Cultivation. Sangam Books. Distribution by Orient Longmans, Hyderabad, (1991)

Women Work and Society

Proceedings of the Indian Statistical Institute, Golden Jubilee International Symposium, published by ICSSR, (1985)

Changing Land Relations and Women

A case study of Palghat, Kerala. Published by ICSSR Programme of Women Studies IV, Concept Publishing Co, 1983

Divided Poor

Study of a Kerala Village based on field work in Venganur near Tiruvananthapuram, Ajanta Publications, 1981

Emergence of a Slave Caste

Pulayas of Kerala, People’s Publishing House, (1980)

Ivar Vazhikattikal

Sign Books (2010) 2nd edition (2022)-Contains short biographies of twelve women, from India and elsewhere, following totally different careers/occupations. The book is meant for young adults.

Marunna Lokam, Maatunathu aaru?

Prabhat Publishers (2003)-A collection of articles translated from the U.S Left journal–Dollars and Sense

T.T Sreekumar and S. Sanjeev edited, Katha Ithuvare, Kerala Vikasana Samvadangal – DC Books, 2003 (The Story till now – Kerala’s Development Debates)

Choosing the Rugged Path : Charting the Political Economy of Gender

Vasanth Kannabiran edited - A Grief to Bury- Memories of Love, Work and Loss, Orient Blackswan , 2011

Choosing the Rugged Path : Charting the Political Economy of Gender

U. Kalpagam and Jaya Arunachalam edited – Rural Women and Development in India , Rawat Publishers, 2008

Land Rights, Right to Food and Food Production – Issues and Challenges The Kerala Case

R.S Deshpande edited , Contract Farming and Tenancy Reforms, Centre for Rural Studies -Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Concept Publishing Company, 2007

From Land Reforms to Land Grabbing : Agriculture be made enjoyable and rewarding

Joseph Tharamangalam edited, Kerala – The Paradoxes of public action and development, Orient Longman, 2006

Women and the Changed Family in Kerala : Some masked realities

Kumud Sharma edited, Memory Frames : Oral Narratives of four first generation Women’s Studies scholars – A Conversation with K. Saradamoni, Vina Mazumdar, Neera Desai and Leela Dube, CWDS, 2005

MA Oomen edited, Kerala’s Development Experience Vol 1, Institute of Social Science, Concept Publising House, 1999

Kerala Model : Time for Rethinking

Rajni Palriwala and Carla Risseeuw edited – Shifting Circles of Support, Sage 1996

Women’s Right and the Decline of Matriliny in Southern India

Loes Schenk Sandberger edited, Women and Seasonal Labour Migration, Sage 1995

Crisis in the Fishing Industry and women’s migration: The Case of Kerala

Lotika Sarkar and B. Sivaramayya edited, Women and Law- Contemporary Problems, Vikas Publishing House, 1994

Progressive Land Legislations and Subordination of Women

Surendranath KV, Damodaran AK, Unnikrishnan SV edited, For an Indian model- Essays in Homage to C. Achuta Menon, Achuta Menon Foundation, 1992

Towards Gender Justice- Challenge and Responsibilities

BK Pal edited, Problems and Concerns of Indian women, ABC Publishing House, 1987

Beyond Nairobi – Adapted from Mainstream, September 14, 1985

Women in Rice Farming IRRI – Proceedings of a conference on Women in Rice Farming Systems, Manila, September 26-30, 1983

Declining employment for the labor – increasing involvement by land-owning women.

T.T Sreekumar and S. Sanjeev edited, Katha Ithuvare, Kerala Vikasana Samvadangal – DC Books, 2003 ( The Story till now – Kerala’s Development Debates )

Malayalistreekalum Pothu Swakaryamandalayangalum ( Kerala’s women in the public and private sphere )