Interrogating women's leadership and empowerment
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TextPublication details: New Delhi Sage 2015Description: xxii, 267p. illustrationsISBN: 9789351500797 (Subject(s): Leadership in women | Feminism | WomenDDC classification: 320.0820954 Summary: Looking at gender through multiple lenses, this volume seeks to understand what empowerment really means to women today. It examines the situation of women in, and their contribution to, politics, business, education, social and economic development, the women’s movement, health, law, insurgency and the arts.
The volume analyses certain key issues of contemporary discourse including:
• ownership of one’s body and freedom of choice
• redefinition of empowerment and leadership and how far we have achieved it
• importance of equal access to education, employment and health
• political participation and decision making, and
• dichotomy between marginalisation of women on grounds of caste, class and religion in a society with changing laws on women’s rights
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| 320.076 POL Political science for civil services (I.A.S) preliminary examination. | 320.082 0954 83 DEV/N New lamps for old? : | 320.082 WHY Why don't women rule the world? :understanding women's civic and political choices | 320.0820954 INT Interrogating women's leadership and empowerment | 320.0820954 SAR Sarpanch Sahib: changing the face of India | 320.08209546 WOM Women in social change : Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns | 320.09 4 SUD/P Politics in India / |
Looking at gender through multiple lenses, this volume seeks to understand what empowerment really means to women today. It examines the situation of women in, and their contribution to, politics, business, education, social and economic development, the women’s movement, health, law, insurgency and the arts.
The volume analyses certain key issues of contemporary discourse including:
• ownership of one’s body and freedom of choice
• redefinition of empowerment and leadership and how far we have achieved it
• importance of equal access to education, employment and health
• political participation and decision making, and
• dichotomy between marginalisation of women on grounds of caste, class and religion in a society with changing laws on women’s rights
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