Amrit Wilson | |
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Born | 1941 (age 82–83) India |
Occupation(s) | Writer, journalist and activist |
Notable work | Finding 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]