The book offers a comprehensive view of the emergence and history of Feminism, followed by discussion of women's issues raised by Indian novelists including Sudha Murthy, Anita Nair, Manju Kapur, Bama, and Diaspora writers including Anita Desai, Chitra Divakaruni and Meena Alexander. Also it deals with the feminist writings of eminent pakistani novelists Bapsi Sidhwa, Taslima Nasrin, Kamila Shamsie, and cross-cultural writers like Buchi Emecheta, Tolstoy and Shakespeare. The volume is a welcome addition to the corpus of feminist theory and literature.