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Title
: Sexuality Questions, Feminist Answers: Sexuality
Questions, Feminist Answers
Author : Radhika
Chandiramani
Publisher :
Women Unlimited
Year :
2008
Pages : 212
Contents :
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1. Anatomy: What it Looks Like and
How it Works. Part 2. LGBT: What am I and does it Matter? Part 3. Sex:
Good Times for Everyone. Part 4: Sexual Health: How to Keep it Safer.
Part 5: Emotional Intelligence: Making Relationships Work. Part 6:
Resources: Want to know More? |
This
anthology is an absolutely invaluable compilation of questions
and answers on the most commonly experienced sexuality-related
concerns. Based on the author’s highly popular column, ‘Midlife
Crisis’ in The Asian Age, it covers all ages, all situations and
conditions, and believes firmly that everyone has a right to
self-affirming and enjoyable sexuality. It is a resource for
people who are looking for information, but don’t know where to
start, for those who are confused about what they already know,
those who are about to begin their sexual lives, those who might
be bored with theirs, those wanting to know how to have safer
sex, and those simply wanting to know more.
Based on the
most current and accurate information available to date, you can
read it for fun or for knowledge!
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Title :
Mental Health and
Aging Women :
Important Correlates
Author :
Parul
Dave and Pallavi Mehta
Publsher :
Kalpaz
Year :
2008
Pages
: 522
Contents : Foreword. Preface. Introduction. 1. The
Socio-demographic and Health Status of the Indian Elderly 2. Mental
Health and Aging: Glimpses of the WSRC Project Section I. Aging Women
and Mental Health: Issues and Concerns. Section II. Gender and
Depression. Section III. Social Realities and Mental Health of Women.
Section IV. Some Aspects of Physical and Mental Health in Aging Women.
Section V. Intervention Strategies. Index. |
"This book
is a collection of papers on a variety of cross-cutting issues
on the theme of mental health and aging women. It brings
together contributions from academics, researchers, and medical
practitioners, in the form of review papers, hospital and
community based quantitative and qualitative research studies,
psychological evaluations, and observations and experiences of
medical practitioners. Besides the findings of a research
project on Mental Health and Aging this book gives demographic
data on the socio-economic and health conditions of the aged
population of India, explores the concerns and issues of aging
women, their social realities and covers a range of problems
related to the physical and mental health of elderly persons.
The role of
nutrition in mental health and intervention strategies has also
been discussed in some papers. The last part is an annotated
bibliography of over 50 relevant literatures on aging, gender
and mental health."
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Title :
Re-defining
Feminisms
Author :
Ranjana
Harish and V. Bharathi Harishankar (Eds.)
Publsher :
Rawat
Year :
2008
Pages :
278
Contents :
Foreword
. Preface. Part I. Re-design: Part II. Re-think. Part III. Re-view.
Part IV. Re-mark.
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"We are now
inhabiting an academic world filled with the prefix 'post' --
post-structuralism, post-modernism, post-colonialism,
post-feminism... More than debating the various connotations of
the prefix, scholars are now increasingly engaged in identifying
the space offered by it in order to interrogate, negotiate and
transform the movements defined by it. This book, Re-defining
Feminism, is one such attempt aimed at examining the process
that paves way for re-definition of the different types of
feminisms in the Indian context. The critical anthology is an
outcome of the peer reviewed and revised papers presented at a
national conference and a few invited contributions. While
literature is the underlying matrix for the anthology, it covers
diverse fields like fine arts, creative writings, social work,
activism, media studies and many more. The editors of the
anthology have identified four stages to the process of
re-definition, namely, re-design, re-think, re-view and re-mark.
All the contributions have been arranged within the four stages,
which appear as the four sections of the book. Altogether, the
book provides a rich texturing of the subtle nuances of
feminisms and interweave by counterpointing articles across the
different sub-sections and finally across disciplines."
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Title :
Rehabilitation of
Disadvanced Children and
Women Sex Workers
Author :
S.P.
Pandey, Awadhesh Kr. Singh and Sanjay Kr. Pandey
(Eds.)
Publsher :
Serials
Year :
2008
Pages :
210
Contents : Preface and acknowledgement. I. Rehabilitation
of Sex workers and their children: 1. Rationale, objectives and
methodology. 2. Trafficking in women and children in India. 3. Care and
protection of children. 4. Socio-economic profile of professionals. 5.
Profile of children. 6. Rehabilitation of professionals and their
children. 7. Observations of officials and non-officials. 8. Concluding
observations and policy recommendations. References. II. Rehabilitation
of disabled: 9. Introduction. 10. Rationale, objectives and methodology.
11. Background of sampled disabled. 12. Nature of extent of disability.
13. Rehabilitation of disabled. 14. Institutional services. 15. Problems
in social rehabilitation. 16. Need for rehabilitation. 17. Conclusion
and polity recommendations. References. |
"Children
form the first priority on the National agenda as they are most
vulnerable and foundation of the nation. However, the
exploitation, neglect, discrimination and violence against
children have caused enormous social distortions and violations
of human rights. The porous borders have added the new
dimensions in trafficking in girls and young women in India as
large number of girls and young women are being trafficked from
Nepal and Bangladesh and are thrown into brothels of
metropolitan cities. Millions of commercial sex workers and
their dependent children are facing problems with social stigma,
deviance and exclusion in the context of globalization, economic
liberalization and marketization of Indian economy and society.
Therefore rehabilitation of trafficked children and women is
imperative. Importantly, physically and mentally challenged
persons are most marginalized and suffer from social deviance,
stigma and social exclusion and oppression. The prevalence of
disability is increasing as globalization, liberalization and
modern life style has promoted accident rate causing impairments
and disabilities. A significant number of physically and
mentally challenged persons are children. The rehabilitation of
physically and mentally challenged persons need new approach
with multi pronged strategies. Against this view point the
present book provides the emerging perspective of disadvantaged
children--children of commercial sex workers, and physically and
mentally challenged children. The book also gives a brief
account of the rationale of social rehabilitation of
disadvantaged children with the admirable felicity of
understanding the social problems and efforts made so far for
the welfare, development and empowerment of disadvantaged
children. The book will be highly useful for understanding the
dynamics of social problems and giving a direction of social
rehabilitation of disadvantaged children." [from the back cover]
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Title :
Sri Sarada Devi: The
Universal Mother
Author :
Dushyanta
Panda
Publsher :
Readworthy
Year :
2008
Pages :
230
Contents :
Perching
on the Spiritual Everest. 1. Going for a Honeymoon. 2. The Dies is Cast.
3. A Spring Interlude. 4. Long Vigil. 5. A Spiritual Honeymoon. 6. The
Sansara of Sarada Devi – I. 7. The Sansara of Sarada Devi – II. 8. The
Turning Point. 9. A Homeless Point. 10. In a Whirlpool at Kamarpukur?
11. Homeless Wanderer. 12. Prayers Granted. 13. Death and Life. 14.
Saradananda, the Great Carrier. 15. I’m Your Real MA. 16. Things are as
they were. 17. Verily, Thakur is Living Here! 18. The Web of Maya – in
or out? 19. The Wave of Nationalism. 20. The Mother of the Universe. 21.
Adieu. 22. Post Script. Index. |
Sarada Devi
popularly known as the Holy Mother, was the spiritual consort of
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahnsa. This book shows how a simple village
girl, who had no formal education, had not read any religious
scriptures and had not been to any teacher (Guru) for spiritual
guidance, achieved the divine status of ‘Mother’.
Delineating
the purpose and significance of her life, it describes in
details her marriage with Sri Ramakrishna, her worshipping as a
Goddess by her own husband, her breaking of cast barriers, and
shackles of age-old social customs, her removal of
pseudo-religious taboos, and her emphasis of female education.
Her contribution towards the establishment and development of
the Ramakrishna Math and Mission has also been discussed
elaborately. [from the back cover]
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Title :
The Voice of Women:
Gargi to Gangasati
Author :
Avadhesh
Kumar Singh (Ed.)
Publsher :
D.K. PrintWorld
Year :
2008
Pages :
314
Contents : Preface. Transliteration Chart. 1. In their Own
Words and Worlds: Women Saints Poets and Their Poetry. 2. The Voice of
Women: An Overview. 3. Women and Rsika Gargi in Vedic Context. 4.
Therigatha Songs of Bhikkunis. 5. Andal: The Rules of all Hearts. 6.
Rabia Basri: The Saintly Mystic. 7. Akka Mahadevi: In Search of
Identity. 8. The Living Light: The Mystical Experience of Hildegard of
Bingen and Julian of Norwich. 9. Lal Ded. 10. Madhabi Dasi: The First
Oriya Saint-Poetess. 11. Candravati. 12. Mira, The Ocean of Love and
Devotion. 13. Marathi Saint Poetesses Janabai and Bahinabai 14.
Tarigonda Vengamamba: Telugu Saint Poetess. 15. Gangasati: The Saint of
Saurashtra. Revere Mother power, or Peris. |
This volume
comprises articles that examine the contribution of women saints
from India and abroad as well. The articles discuss the origin
of bhakti, the Bhakti Movement, and Bhakti/saint poetesses like
Rsika Gargi, theris, Andal, Lal Ded, Akka Mahadevi, Mirabai,
Gangasati, Tarigonda Vengamamba, Janabai, Bahinabai, Madhabi
Dasi, Hildegard of Bingen, and Julian of Norwich from different
regions and religions. Their contribution constitutes a rich
tradition of devotional discourse in terms of form as well as
content and has survived till now in folk and learned
traditions. The articles discuss their voices, visions and
suffereings-physical and psychological-and also the way they
transcended them and voiced them in their compositions. Their
uniqueness lies in their existence at multiple levels-social,
poetic, religious and spiritual-among others. The volume would
interest literary, cultural historians and religious scholars as
well as general readers. [from the back cover]
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Title :
Wife, Mother, Widow : Exploring Women's Lives
in
Northern India
Author :
Susan Snow Wadley
Publisher :
Chronicle
Year :
2008
Pages :
190
Contents : 1.
Introducing the village of Karimpur. 2. "One straw from a broom cannot
sweep": the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North
India. 3. Female life chances in rural India. 4. Brothers, husbands and
sometimes sons. 5. Charlotte Wiser's "Shrimati". 6. No longer a wife:
widows in rural North India. 7. The "Village Indira": a Brahman widow
and political action in rural North India. 8. Negotiating new rules and
values: four generations of rural North Indian women. 9. Clothing the
female body: education, social change and fashion in rural North India.
Acknowledgement. Bibliography. Index. |
"The essays
in this volume, based on forty years of research in Karimpur in
Western Uttar Pradesh, study the impact of increased rural
prosperity, gains in education, and urban influences in the
lives of women in rural North India.
The initial
chapters examine the changes in the economic system, and
demographic patterns in the village over the last 70 years,
which show significant improvement in the economic condition of
the people, child mortality and life expectancy, and education.
While these changes imply greater mobility, decision-making
powers and increasing ages of marriage for some women, others
have been adversely affected, facing the double burden of
poverty and caste discrimination due to the discontinuation of
the Jajmani (patron-client) system and the breaking up of joint
families.
A later
essay focuses on the growing disparity in the female-to-male
ratio, an issue of vital concern in India. Frequent interactions
with the urban community has led to better awareness of
biomedicine and improved general health, but it has also opened
up new challenges as families shift from female infanticide to
female foeticide.
The
remaining chapters describe the day-to-day realities of women's
lives in a patriarchal rural community--rituals, family
dealings, marriage and widowhood. But they also present hitherto
overlooked or little known information such as the common
practice or remarriage of widows of lower castes, or widows of
higher caste actively participating in village politics. The
last two chapters highlight the impact of modern lifestyles
including fashion and clothes on young women in rural India,
providing them the raw materials to forge new identities and
traditions." [from the back cover]
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Title
: Women and Peace : Chapters from
Northeast India
Author : Anuradha
Dutta and Ratna Bhuyan (Eds.)
Publisher : Akansha
Year
: 2008
Pages :
236
Contents : A
Speech/S.D. Sidhu.
Introduction/Anuradha Dutta. I. 1. Bodo women: peace makers within the
ethnic paradigm/Abhijit Bhuyan. 2. Women in armed conflict: the Manipur
experience/Babloo Loitongbam. 3. Legacy of the women's movement in
Manipur/Bhabananda Takhellambam. 4. Role of students' organisations in
peace-building: understanding Manipur/Bobichand Meitei Rajkumar. 5.
Muslim women of Manipur and peace-making: a transitional role from
behind the veil to public space/Elizabeth Devi. 6. Armed conflict, state
repression and women in Manipur: politics of the body in violence/Lokendra
Arambam. 7. Manipuri women--powerful, empowered or marginalized?/N.
Vijaylakshmi Brara. 8. Challenges before women's movement in Manipur/Pradip
Phanjoubam. 9. Building peace: what difference do women make?/Rita
Manchanda. 10. Role of women as peace builders with special reference to
Nagaland/Triveni Goswami. |
"Armed
conflicts are never gender-neutral. The costs of conflict be it
of any kind are borne disproportionately by women, children and
youth as well. It is not that women do not have a place in the
peace building process. But women's identity as victims
circumscribes their roles in the peace building process. Though
a few of these positive roles are told and shared, countless
remain untold.
Peace
studies has had a series of workshops at Guwahati and Bodoland
territorial council area (BTAD) district in Assam, and Imphal in
Manipur duly sponsored by the American Center, Kolkata and the
Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi on the role and contribution
of women to conflict and peace in the two states respectively.
This volume is an attempt in putting together and bringing forth
some known and unknown roles of the Manipuri and Bodo women
adduced during the proceedings of the workshops.
As the
volume as well carries first person accounts of the resource
persons and participants in the workshops, in all, the book
should make interesting and illuminating reading to all in
peace, conflict and gender studies." [from the back cover]
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Title
: Women in Police Profession : An Emperical
Case of
Delhi Police
Author : Alka
Sahoo
Publisher
: Academic Excellence
Year
: 2008
Pages :
332
Contents
: Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Women in police
profession. 3. Delhi Police and women policing in Delhi. 4. Status and
role of policewomen: an empirical case of Delhi. 5. Case studies. 6.
Conclusions. Bibliography. Appendix. Index.
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"The book is
third of it's kind in India and first on policewomen in Delhi
Police, from the sociological perspective. It not only gives us
a picture of status of policewomen in the family, organization
and society but their role, role-conflicts while playing the
multiple roles and role articulation in conflicting role
situations also. Their entry into police profession,
traditionally considered as male profession, is an achievement
in itself but they still occupy nearly 3% of the total strength
of Delhi Police and face inequality and discrimination in
certain areas of policing. The book offers some suggestions
also." [from the back cover]
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