Women have remained the suffering segment of humanity since the known period of history. In the modern and post modern periods of history too women have been by and large at the receiving end and especially so in the under developed countries of the world. Even in the developing countries their position has been far from rosy. In recent years problems of women have acquired new dimensions of increasingly complicated nature. Under the pressure of imperatives of ...
Self-empowerment in its simplest terms implies taking change of every sphere of one's own life. Social empowerment being the key foe badly needed reforms in society, self-empowerment come to the fore as the first step in the process. The present book aims to initiate this process by bringing forth a collection of essays, penned by eminent sociologists, on the issue of education and educators, women's emancipation and spirituality. It should prove to be an ...