Women and Politics in India
Author | : Bhawana Jharta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bhawana Jharta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mytheli Sreenivas |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2021-05-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295748850 |
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.
Author | : Niroja Sinhā |
Publisher | : Gyan Books |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Recent years have witnessed a concern at the marginal presence of women in Politics. The concern has been voiced through international for a on the one hand and national and local level women groups and academics on the other. The involvement of women in politics in now regarded as an important factor for a healthy democracy. No democracy can be termed as healthy, if half on the population does not participate in the political process. It is also being increasingly realized that participation as mere voters is not enough. It has to be followed by large scale participation in the policy-formulation and decision making process. This book is an attempt at analyzing the problems related to women's political participation in the Indian context. Gender and patriarchy have been used as the conceptual framework. The environmental factors-socio-economic, political and cultural-are in some way or the other, directly related to the norms of gender and patriarchy . About The Author: - Dr. Niroj Sinha, presently Principal of M.M. College, Patna University. She has been engaged in women studies since 1981 and has undertaken research on various aspects of women's life. She has completed two projects, funded by Union Ministry of Welfare and Ministry of Human Resources Development. She has also worked for two international projects-Women in Public Admin., International Perspectives and Women and Politics World-Wide, which have published in book form from Haywarth and Yale, in USA. She has been attending the World Congresses of Political Science since 1979 regularly and has widely travelled in North America, South America, Europe and erstwhile USSR. She has also visited some of the South Asian countries. Contents: - List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Demystifying Gender: A Step to Social Equity Patriarchy, Politics and Women Women and Political Participation Women's Participation in National Freedom Struggle The Political Scenario in India and Women
Author | : Vijay Agnew |
Publisher | : Vikas Publishing House Private |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kiran Saxena |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
The work enriched by the reputed scholars and writers explores women's struggles for political powers, one of the most important gestures through which they could achieve their rightful place in society. Reflects women's struggles, hardships, grief and sorrow, with achievements and their disappointments, successes and failures in this battle. Proves to be an epic on the subject.
Author | : Nivedita Menon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This volume presents a view of feminist theory and politics in India in the form of debates within the movement on key issues. The essays focus on important strands and arguments within Indian feminism, providing for an inclusion of disparate voices without privileging any one over the other.
Author | : Leslie J Calman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000010554 |
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. She describes the nature, origins, and meanings of the movement for Indian women and discusses the movement's significance for Indian politics in general as w
Author | : Rachel E. Brulé |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108870600 |
Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Women, Power, and Property explores this question within the context of India, the world's largest democracy. Brulé employs a research design that maximizes causal inference alongside extensive field research to explain the relationship between political representation, backlash, and economic empowerment. Her findings show that women in government – gatekeepers – catalyze access to fundamental economic rights to property. Women in politics have the power to support constituent rights at critical junctures, such as marriage negotiations, when they can strike integrative solutions to intrahousehold bargaining. Yet there is a paradox: quotas are essential for enforcement of rights, but they generate backlash against women who gain rights without bargaining leverage. In this groundbreaking study, Brulé shows how well-designed quotas can operate as a crucial tool to foster equality and benefit the women they are meant to empower.
Author | : Nivedita Menon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This volume presents a view of feminist theory and politics in India in the form of debates within the movement on key issues. The essays focus on important strands and arguments within Indian feminism, providing for an inclusion of disparate voices without privileging any one over the other.
Author | : S. Anandhi |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351797190 |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: We ask you to rethink: Different Dalit women and their subaltern politics -- Part I Imagining a new Dalit women's politics -- 1 Foreword: Dalits, Dalit women and the Indian State -- 2 For another difference: Agency, representation and Dalit women in contemporary India -- Part II Dalit women's conceptualizations of caste difference and their means of collectivization -- 3 Gendered negotiations of caste identity: Dalit women's activism in rural Tamil Nadu -- 4 Liberation panthers and pantheresses? Gender and Dalit party politics in South India -- 5 Microcredit self-help groups and Dalit women: Overcoming or essentializing caste difference? -- Part III A broken empowerment? Are women still trapped by caste and patriarchy? -- 6 Dalit women, rape and the revitalisation of patriarchy? -- 7 Different Dalit women speak differently: Unravelling, through an intersectional lens, narratives of agency and activism from everyday life in rural Uttar Pradesh -- 8 Subsidising capitalism and male labour: The scandal of unfree Dalit female labour relations -- Part IV Religion as Dalit political practice -- 9 Transformation and the suffering subject: Caste-class and gender in slum Pentecostal discourse -- 10 Improper politics: The praxis of subalterns in Chennai -- Afterword: The burden of caste: Scholarship, democratic movements and activism