Women in social change : Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi Sage 2021Description: 276pISBN: 9789353887711Subject(s): India | women | Women--Social conditions | Women's rightsDDC classification: 320.08209546 Summary: "Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women's rights in independent India. Authored by eminent scholars and emerging experts of their time, the articles encapsulate developments which have given the women's rights movement and women's studies imaginative new models. They also indicate fundamental concerns that have endured over decades. The articles have been grouped into categories that cover diverse themes such as the conceptualization of women's rights and laws pertaining to the same, changing notions of women as workers, women's political participation and cultural representation, and, finally, the impediments, roadblocks and violence experienced by women. The editor's introductions provide critical historical context for the juridico-political paradoxes and internal contradictions that confront the women's rights movement today. The sectional introductions place each article in a larger context, pointing out the importance of their approach, methodology and salient arguments"--Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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 / | 320.09 SIV/P Peasants media literature | 320.092 2 BHA/I Indian political thinkers |
"Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women's rights in independent India. Authored by eminent scholars and emerging experts of their time, the articles encapsulate developments which have given the women's rights movement and women's studies imaginative new models. They also indicate fundamental concerns that have endured over decades. The articles have been grouped into categories that cover diverse themes such as the conceptualization of women's rights and laws pertaining to the same, changing notions of women as workers, women's political participation and cultural representation, and, finally, the impediments, roadblocks and violence experienced by women. The editor's introductions provide critical historical context for the juridico-political paradoxes and internal contradictions that confront the women's rights movement today. The sectional introductions place each article in a larger context, pointing out the importance of their approach, methodology and salient arguments"--
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