Women’s Empowerment in India
From Rights to Agency
- 172 pages
- English
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Women’s Empowerment in India
From Rights to Agency
About this book
The volume brings together readings describing a range of less-traversed aspects and transferences of women's rights and struggles in India and develops a comprehensive understanding of the interface between women's activism and politics.
The book documents and discusses diverse ways in which Indian women have struggled for empowerment, political voice and representation, and rallied against injustice and discrimination. Against the backdrop of women's assertion of rights and negotiations for empowerment, the chapters in this volume explore diverse facets of collective agency, and emanations of women's politico-legal struggles against stereotypes of gender and class in post-independence India. While the donor-driven international community has been eager to celebrate the successes of its global normative agenda-setting and 'best practices' approach, this book - based primarily on field research by the contributors - showcases authentic local ownership and women's own agency, taking seriously the need to understand the cultural context and pay attention to intersectionality. It presents various examples of women's activism for change, reflecting on the quotidian struggles and dynamic assertions of voice and political power, within and outside of formal political institutions. The book is a contribution to the debate about agency and ownership as key aspects of empowerment, highlighting women who defy dominant narratives.
It will be an essential read for students and academics of political science, gender studies, sociology and social sciences, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to readers interested in the history of women's movements and their participation in national and local politics in India.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 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 the Jan Sunwai and the struggle for transparency in rural Rajasthan
- 7. The Sa-chetana process: In search of frameworks to understand women’s empowerment
- 8. Corpo-activism: Dance and activist labour in the work of Komal Gandhar, Kolkata1
- 9. Whither Indian women’s empowerment?
- Index