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Revision with unchanged content. The population in Kerala, India is frequently displayed as more literate, more educated, healthier and less poverty struck than those of other Indian states. Women´s high development scores are particularly often brought to the forefront when general information about Kerala is distributed. Kerala thus, might seem like a perfect display of social development, a success story for women´s emancipation in an ´underdeveloped´ part of the world. This book explores critical feminist voices questioning the results of modern emancipation and suggests the critique launched by feminists in Kerala to be relevant when re-examining gender equality in Scandinavia.

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obtained her master´s degree in Sociology in 2005. She has worked as a research assistant and contiunes her research on gender, globalisation and modernity as a PhD-scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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