1. Where Are the Women in South Asian Conflicts? / Rita Manchanda -- 2. Guns and Burqa: Women in the Kashmir Conflict / Rita Manchanda -- 3. Ambivalent Empowerment: The Tragedy of Tamil Women in Conflict / Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake -- 4. Between Two Armed Patriarchies: Women in Assam and Nagaland / Paula Banerjee -- 5. 'They Use Us and Others Abuse Us': Women in the MQM Conflict / Anis Haroon -- 6. Where There Are No Men: Women in the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal / Shobha Gautam, Amrita Banskota and Rita Manchanda -- 7. Women's Narratives from the Chittagong Hill Tracts / Meghna Guhathakurta