Book Reviews Navaneetha Mokkil and Shefali Jha (Eds.), Thinking Women: A Feminist Reader (Kolkata Stree Publication, 2019), 528 pp., `999, ISBN 978- 8190676007 (Paperback). Navaneetha Mokkil and Shefali Jha’s edited volume, Thinking Women: A Feminist Reader gives those of us teaching gender at the undergraduate level, something to dance about. At 500 pages, the reader has 56 chapters that include excerpts from life narratives, fiction and poetry, well-known feminist essays from India and elsewhere. Even as the edited volume makes space for well-established writers of fiction and scholarship, it proudly showcases the writings of less-known feminist thinkers like P. Radhika, Samata Biswas and Soibam Haripriya. Further, the inclusion of English translations of the works of creative writers and essayists in Indian languages such as Salma, Jayaprapha, Swarupa Rani and Sara Aboobacker significantly revises notions such as ‘woman’ and feminism’ that have otherwise acquired their conceptual vocabulary primarily from English. Among recognized Indian scholars and creative writers are the works of Sharmila Rege, Partha Chatterjee, Tejaswini Niranjana and Susie Tharu, Bama, Urmila Pawar, Bhargavi Davar, Mahasweta Devi and C. S. Lakshmi. A refreshing aspect of the book is its framing of feminism not as a concept or category that requires an explanation but as a way of living, acting and thinking, an idea that Susie Tharu highlights in her preface to the collection. Four frames stand out: feminism’s ability to form collectives, its strength as a personal trait, its ability to interrogate entrenched disciplines and most importantly, its critical indifference to normative hierarchical binaries. Mokkil and Jha in their introduction to the book, emphasize two ideas that are significant in this regard: that gender as a category informs our everyday lives in minute ways that are best captured through the personal narratives that populate the book; Indian Journal of Gender Studies 30(2) 236–257, 2023 © 2023 CWDS Article reuse guidelines: in.sagepub.com/journals-permissions-india DOI: 10.1177/09715215231157994 journals.sagepub.com/home/ijg