India venerates women as Goddesses and mothers. Rivers and the nations are named as women. There have been poets and greatmen in India who have crusaded that women should be treated on par with men. Right from politics down to the primary level, attempts have been made to debate the status of women, but due to cultural, educational, religious, economic and social reasons, women have become second rate citizens. In our society we have number of evil culture or practice against women. Dowry, divorce and mismatching are the most uncivilized practices in our modern society. In dowry, divorce and mismatching generally affecting people are women and children. Only in few cases men are the affecting group. The male domination, unwanted social customs and economic dependent of women are the major causes for women’s second position in our society. In our constitution we have many privileges for women. But in practice men always suppressing women. The eradicated these social evils society must create awareness and more concession to women.This book is one of the most needful one for the present society. Even though we are living in modern society we have lot of gender biased culture.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S Gokilavani
Dr. S. Gokilavani, was a product of Prof. R. Venkataratnam, from the Department of Sociology of madurai Kamaraj University. She was the first rank holder from among the first batch of M.Phil courses in their university from 1977-80. She was a research Officer in the University of Mysore for a short period of five month and later on she had a privilege of joining as the faculty of sociology in the same department where she was a student. After completing her Ph.D in Health Sociology, during her tenure as lecturer in sociology for eight years from 1981-89, she became a reader in the Department of Women's studies, Alagappa University serving till now. She has to her credit many outstanding books published in English and Tamil and also her articles have been published in prestigious journals of India. She has produced nearly 16 M.Phil students in sociology and women's studies, five Ph.D. scholars, now guiding eleven Ph.D. scholars in women's studies. She has presented research papers in the X, XI and XII world Congress of Sociology held at New Delhi, Spain (in person) and Germany (in absentia). She holds professional membership in more than six national and international bodies like the ISA and IAWS. More than 70 research papers have been presented by the Author in various seminars/conferences and workshops.
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