The lyrical and globe-spanning memoir by the influential feminist
economist, with introductory pieces from two American icons "Your
heart and world will be opened by reading The Brass Notebook, the
intimate and political life of Devaki Jain, a young woman who dares
to become independent." -Gloria Steinem When she was barely thirty,
the Indian feminist economist Devaki Jain befriended Doris Lessing,
Nobel winner and author of The Golden Notebook, who encouraged Jain
to write her story. Over half a century later, Jain has crafted
what Desmond Tutu has called "a riveting account of the life story
of a courageous woman who has all her life challenged what
convention expects of her." Across an extraordinary life
intertwined with those of Iris Murdoch, Gloria Steinem, Julius
Nyerere, Henry Kissinger, and Nelson Mandela, Jain navigated a
world determined to contain her ambitions. While still a young
woman, she traveled alone across the subcontinent to meet Gandhi's
disciple Vinoba Bhave, hitchhiked around Europe in a sari, and fell
in love with a Yugoslav at a Quaker camp in Saarbrucken. She
attended Oxford University, supporting herself by washing dishes in
a local cafe. Later, over the course of an influential career as an
economist, Jain seized on the cause of feminism, championing the
poor women who labored in the informal economy long before
mainstream economics attended to questions of inequality. With a
foreword by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and an
introduction by the well-known American feminist Gloria Steinem,
whose own life and career were inspired by time spent with Jain,
The Brass Notebook perfectly merges the political with the
personal-a book full of life, ideas, politics, and history.
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