Women's Empowerment in India

ISBN-13: 9781032124995 / Twarda / 2024 / 180 str.

Opis

The volume brings together readings describing a range of less-traversed aspects and transferences of women’s rights and struggles in India and develops an understanding of the interface between women’s activism and politics.

Spis treści

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Women’s empowerment in India 1. Shifting contours of women’s activism in India 2. Multi-perspectivity in Indian legal discourse: The Hindu Code Bill debate 3. Women’s political participation in India: Alternative paths to empowerment 4. Cyber-activism on violence against women in India 5. The role of Self-Help Groups in rural Odisha: Promoting women’s empowerment 6. Speaking up from behind the veil: Women’s participation in Jan Sunwai and the struggle for transparency in rural Rajasthan 7. The Sa-chetana Process: In search of frameworks for understanding women’s empowerment 8. Corpo-activism: Dance and activist labour in the work of Komal Gandhar, Kolkata 9. Whither Indian women’s empowerment? Index.

 

O autorze

Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya is a professor of Political Science from Banaras Hindu University and a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at MIT-World Peace University, Pune.

Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She has written extensively on governance, identity politics, gender, nationhood and representation.

Eileen Connolly was the Director of the Ireland India Institute at Dublin City University. She is a specialist in gender and politics.