Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India

ISBN-13: 9780367214838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 258 str.

Leslie J. Calman

Opis

Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women's movement evolved in India when it did.

Spis treści

Preface -- Development of the Indian Women's Movement -- Introduction: Theoretical Approaches to Defining the Movement and Evaluating Its Results -- Why the Women's Movement Emerged: The Context of Indian Politics -- Discovering the Status of Women in India: Grievances Surface and Action Begins -- A Movement Emerges: Resources and Structures -- Effectiveness and Potential -- Ending Violence Against Women -- The Uniform Civil Code -- Actions for Empowerment -- Conclusion: The Future of the Indian Women's Movement

O autorze

Calman, Leslie J