Women in Rural Development: Contemporary Social Policy and Practice

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Women in Rural Development: Contemporary Social Policy and Practice addresses the socio-economic status of rural women in India, the origin of rural development, development planning shift towards rural women, development programmes of the government, and policies and programme interventions for empowerment of rural women. The book begins with an overview of the policies and practice for the development of rural women. The second section presents a wide spectrum of rural development strategies including the concept of self-help, micro-credit and value addition of rural products to build the economic capacities of rural products to build the economic capacities of rural women. The third section reports the significant role played by rural women in responding to environmental challenges and promoting sustainable development through interesting cases. The last section offers a critical insight into the current welfare strategies for rural women in development and raises issues that would shape development activism from a gender sensitive dimension. The book examines the difficulties and struggles of rural women and provides correctives for their development and enhanced quality of life. The interdisciplinary scope of the book make it an ideal text for a wide range of disciplines including womenâ€™s studies, development studies, rural development, sociology, social work, agricultural sciences, extension studies and social policy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kiran Prasad

Kiran Prasad is Associate professor in communication studies, College of Applied Science at salalah, Ministry of Higher Education, Oman and professor in Communication and Journalism at Sri Padmavati Mahila University, Tirupati, India. She was Commonwealth Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Communication Research, University of Leeds, UK and Canadian Studies Research Fellow at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She is also the youngest ever recipient of the ‘ State Best Teacher Award’ for university teacher from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India. Aprolific writer and well known communication philosopher, She is author/editor of over seventeen books and conceptualized many theories in communication studies. Her recent books include Communcation for Development: Reinventing theory and Action(2009, in Vols.); Information and Communication technology: Recasting Development (2004); Women, Globalization and Mass Media: International Facets of Emancipation (2006); and HIV and AIDS: Vulnerrability of Women in Asia and Africa (2008). She has to her credit over 100 paper in journals of national and international repute and has researched extensively in India and abroad on the interrelations between communication and development studies.