Lata Mani is a feminist writer and filmmaker who was born in Mumbai in 1956 and moved to London in her teen years. She graduated in 1974 from Dehli University with a degree in International Affairs. While working as a media planner in the UK and India, she was drawn to go back to graduate school by the feminist movement of the 1980's in India. She earned her masters from UC Santa in Comparative World History and her PhD in History of Consciousness. Mani continued on to join the faculty at the University of California's Women's Studies Department. [1][1] Rarober4 (talk) 16:39, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Some of Lata Mani's works include Contentious Traditions, written in 1998, which discusses "Sati" or widow burning in colonial India [2] as well as "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception" [3], concerning positionality and location and how they can effect knowledge and how it is received.

  1. Jump up^ http://www.latamani.com/
  2. Jump up^ http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520214071
  3. Jump up^ http://ccs.ihr.ucsc.edu/inscriptions/volume-5/lata-mani/