The University of Arizona Press

Meena R. Khandelwal is an associate professor of gender, women’s, and sexuality studies and anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her trailblazing research on Hindu monastic life is published in Women in Ochre Robes and in the co-edited volume Women’s Renunciation in South Asia. A serendipitous encounter with an engineering professor in 2011 sparked her curiosity about solar, biomass, and modern gas cookstoves in southern Rajasthan. A decade of  collaboration with engineers, archaeologists, and others has led her to reimagine the humble mud stove as a women’s technology.