Mary E John was formerly professor at the Centre for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi. She was director of the Centre from 2006-2012 and before that the deputy director of the Women’s Studies Programme at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi from 2001-2006. Major publications include Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory and Postcolonial Histories (reprinted 2021), A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India (reprinted 2021) and Women’s Studies in India: A Reader (2008). In 2021 the co-edited volume Women in the Worlds of Labour: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives and the monograph Child Marriage in an International Frame: A Feminist Review from India were published. She was the co-chair of a task force set up by the University Grants Commission to look into sexual harassment on Indian campuses and brought out the report Saksham: Measures for Ensuring Safety of Women and Programmes for Gender Sensitization on Campuses (2013). Her areas of interest span the fields of women’s studies and feminism within the social sciences, with particular expertise in studies pertaining to marriage and family, education and labor, as well as a more philosophical interest in the concepts and frameworks of feminist theoretical analysis.