Amrit Wilson

Amrit Wilson
Born1941 (age 82–83)
India
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist and activist
Notable workFinding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain (1978)

Amrit Wilson (born 1941)[1] is a British-Indian[2] writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics.[3] Her 1978 book Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain[4] won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book.[2] Her other book publications include Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 2006), and as a journalist she has been published in outlets including Ceasefire Magazine,[5] Media Diversified,[6] openDemocracy[7] and The Guardian.[8][9]

  1. ^ "Amrit Wilson". Women of Substance: Profiles of Asian Women in the UK. 1997. p. 152 – via EBSCOhost.[dead link]
  2. ^ a b "South Asian women in Britain: Finding a voice, 40 years on". Media Diversified. 17 January 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  3. ^ Siddiqui, Sophia (30 October 2018). "'Reclaiming our collective past': Amrit Wilson reflects on 40 years of anti-racist feminist work". gal-dem. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  4. ^ Wilson, Amrit (1 October 1978). "A burning fever: the isolation of Asian women in Britain". Race & Class. 20 (2): 129–142. doi:10.1177/030639687802000203. S2CID 145473127.
  5. ^ "Amrit Wilson". Ceasefire. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Category: Amrit Wilson". Media Dversified. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Amrit Wilson". Open Democracy.
  8. ^ "Speaker bios" (PDF). Islamophobia Conference 2017: The Rise of Nativism.
  9. ^ "Amrit Wilson". The Guardian.