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This book is our endeavour to chart the emerging trends in the issues of women, work and health against the dynamics of today's globalized world. These changes touch the various spheres of women's lives related to the fields of : Gender & Development, Gender, Work & Health, Sustainiability Development in South Asia. This book reflects the innovative thought processes of women across the world and the courage and determination manifested by ...
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 ...
Papers presented at the Symposium on "Girls and Girlhoods at Threshold of Youth & Gender", held at Mumbai in November 2008. This volume is an outcome of three decades of deliberations on girls and girlhoods by the women's rights organizations in India. The symposium aimed to focus on girlhoods, generate information about them and create a platform for groups and individuals concerned abut the issues. It naturally included girls themselves. Girls ...
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 ...