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39 books
The central theme of the book is to explore regarding women’s empowerment in the char (riverine) areas of Brahmaputra Valley of Assam highlighting their role in family, society and political process with special reference to Barpeta District.
The study of women’s empowerment in the char area has been taken into account the specifics of struggles, challenges and opportunities associated with living in such backward and inaccessible areas.
Muslim women ...
The book is about the troubled psyche of Indian married woman who suffers inequality in marital relationship. It is an attempt to find out the gaps in happy married life by studying four novels in Indian context through feminist, existential and psychoanalytical perspective. Women from different strata of society: a girl child (Raka); widow (Nanda Kaul), House wife (Roop, Satya, Mona) career woman (Sarita) all suffer repercussions of unhappy married life. The ...
This subject has been delt with by many scholars in different angles. Dr. Lesslie C. Orr had made an analytical approach based on Chola inscription. However additional information is available in the records of the Pallava period, Kadavaraya chiefs, Pandyas, Kongucholas etc. The earliest reference to devaradiyar comes from a 9th century inscription. This has been interpreted as meaning courtesans but she is referred to as the builder of a Jaina temple (sulaigal ...
This work is an attempt to assess the contribution of a nineteenth century Bengali woman who had many 'firsts' to her credit. She had excelled in her medical practice and tride to reach out to those hapless women at a time when very little attention was paid to their health. At that time the realm of medicine and health was exclusively male dominated. Her achievements in the practice of medicine are phenomenal considering the constant impediments she had to face ...
This book is the outcome of a research study carried out by WSDC, University of Delhi. The alarming decline in child sex ratio in the northern states of North India has generated a lot of concern among activists, development practitioners and academicians. The centre devised an empirical study to make an assessment of attituditional difference towards the girl child in today's society. The study confirms a sutle bias towards the girls in our society but also ...
Census 2001 showed a sharp decline in child sex ratio in states of North India. It has become a matter of grave concern for demographers, development professionals and academicians. Focusing on two of the objectives of Women Empowerment Policy of 2001, WSDC carried out a multi centre research study with four other Women's Studies Centres and one NGO.The present volume is based on the analysis of the data that has come from the institutions that were involved ...
The Census of India 2001 provided information on social, demographer, educational and economic indicators religion wise for the first time. The present book is based on a study commissioned by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) on Education of Muslim Girls and Women in India. The study corroborates the earlier findings of small and large sample surveys regarding the educational backwardness of Muslims in general and Muslim girls and ...
International Conference on Universities for Women: Challenges and Perspectives were held between 1-3 February 2006. The Director of the Conference and the Vice-Chancellor of Sri Padmavati Women’s University, Dr. Veena Noble Dass visualized this conference out of which emerged a consortium of Women’s Universities of which Prof. Dass was nominated the chairperson.The conference was attended by a large number of academicians, administrators as well as ...
Globalisation is causing shrinking of the organized sector accompanied by the expansion of informal sector. Informal sector is a vast sector where there is preponderance of women. This sector is highly insecure and temporary in nature. The activities that women perform in this sector are quite un-motivating in terms of wages and job satisfaction. Women are generally found in low-income activity that barely guarantees survival. This is likely to be in ...
This book is a contribution to the ever growing fields of sociology of women working across countries with different socio-political, cultural settings. A number of these studies were presented during meetings of the Research Committee # 26 (Sociotechnics and Sociological Practice) of the International Sociological Association in South Africa and Europe during the past few years.
The Chapters include studies of international scholars on: (1) "Escape from ...
The series Empowering Women Worldwide aims to bring insights into women's empowerment experience from an interdisciplinary perspective. Empowerment must build the ability of women to think critically about oppressive ideology and practices and encourage them to firmly resist the forces that desire to isolate and silence them. Empowerment has been often referred to as a process through which people gain control over their own lives and life environment. ...
A lot is already written on development communication, but this book addresses feminist perspectives on development communication. The scope of the book extends to a variety of perspective and sharing personal experiences as well as contemporary issues on theory, practice and processes of women’s empowerment. The book is divided into three well organized sections which theorizes, contextualizes and reassesses the field feminist development ...
This book has adopted an interdisciplinary perspective to examine political economy of Gender and Empowerment. The discourses on gender implications of micro and macro realities by authors focus on women’s predicaments in the private and public spheres of life. It brings to the fore women’s agency in the midst of multifaceted hurdles posed by patriarchal powers. It shows how patriarchy thrives on control of women’s sexuality, fertility and ...
Communication and Empowerment of Women: Strategies and Policy Insights from India (In 2 Volumes) addresses the interrelationships between communication strategies and policies for women’s empowerment from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book seeks to raise social consciousness on women, redefine agendas and rethink strategies that will empower women. The chapters in the book link theory, policy, strategy and practice in communication and women’s ...
In most of the developing countries today, more and more emphasis is laid on the need for development of women and their active participation in the main stream of development process. IT is also widely recognized that apart from managing household, bearing children, rural women bring income with productive activities ranging from traditional work in the fields to working in factories or running small and petty businesses. They have also proven that they can be ...
Delhi shares the ignominy of destroying daughters in the womb with other well off north western states which is symptomatic of the larger malaise of the low status accorded to women and the denial of their Right to Life, the right to be born to females in this region. The book, based on empirical research, is a sensitive exploration into the malaise of sex selective abortions and relative neglect of female children during early years leading to further decline in ...
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 ...
The major concern of the essays in this book is to trace the emancipating values induced through the recognition of multiple perspectives as opposed to the socially maintained hegemonil standpoints. Each essay although starting off from various cultural locales and theoretical positions-whether it is about autobiography or painting-attempts for the most a rediscovery of woman’s history and culture, particularly in the case of non-European communities that have ...