Amrit Wilson (born 1941), Indian by birth and based in Britain, is a writer, journalist and activist who since the 1970s has focused on issues of race and gender in Britain and South Asian politics. Her 1978 book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'' won the Martin Luther King Award, and remains an influential feminist book. Her other book publications include ''Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain'' (London:

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, 2006), and as a journalist she has been published in outlets including ''Ceasefire Magazine'', '' Media Diversified'',

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Background

Wilson grew up in India and came to Britain as a student in 1961. She became a freelance journalist in 1974, and was active as an anti-racist militant in the 1970s. Wilson's book ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'', first published in 1978 and reprinted 40 years later, has been described as " allenging the views of South Asian women as weak, submissive, one-dimensional stereotypes" and as having "cleared the space for Asian women to speak for themselves". Wilson was a founder member of Awaz, the UK's first Asian feminist collective, and was active in OWAAD, the Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent (1978–82). She was formerly chair of

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, a national network of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee women's refuges and services for women facing violence, and is a founder member of South Asia Solidarity Group. She also was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at

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Selected bibliography

* ''Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain'' (1978; second edition Daraja Press, 2019, ) * ''The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution'' (The Red Sea Press, 1991, ) * ''Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian Women in Britain'' (London:

, 2006; ) * ''The Threat of Liberation'' (Pluto Press, 2013; )

References

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