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This book is a collection of Devaki Jain’s writings and lectures related to the women’s movement in India and interventions in policy and fact base drawn from that experience. A journey of over six decades, it presents important interventions in the design of national and international development policy.
Beginning with a fascinating account of Jain’s own evolution into a feminist, each chapter starts with an introductory note locating it in her ...
This compilation of essays by female scholars and activists views women’s condition from legal perspective, through policies on employment, and through the prism of education, historical narratives, inequality and so on. Historians, lawyers, journalists and others cover a variety of themes such as women’s legal entitlements, the roles and hopes of Dalits, working class women and others, inequalities in education, women in politics and state of women ...
The discipline of women’s studies has had a very special history in India. While promoting an alternative worldview informed by the battle for equity and justice, it has also challenged the social processes through which patriarchy constructs and reinforces itself. As it has evolved, therefore, women’s studies in India has become both an academic field of inquiry and a force for social activism. With a view to documenting the growth and development of the ...
In Women, Development, and the UN, internationally noted development economist and activist Devaki Jain traces the ways in which women have enriched the work of the United Nations from the time of its founding in 1945, Synthesizing insights from the extensive literature on women and development and from her own broad experience, Jain reviews the evolution of the UN’s programs aimed at benefiting the women of developing nations and the impact of women’s ideas ...