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Author           :     Neloufer De Mel and Selvy Thiruchandran (eds.)

Publisher      :      Women Unlimited

Year             :      2007

Pages           :      288

Contents      :      Acknowledgements. Preface: the personal being political.   Introduction: Affirmations at the cutting edge: feminist debates and key texts. 1. The 'Burdens' of nationalism: some thoughts on South Asian Feminists and the nation state.   2. Shaping pressures and symbolic horizons: the Women's Movement in India.  3. Mapping the feminist imagination: from redistribution to recognition to representation.  4. Feminism and nationalism in the Middle East.   5. Are Women's Rights Universal? Re-engaging the local.  6. Constructions of culture and identity in contemporary social theorising. 7. Singing of birth and death: dialogue and identity in Lullabies and Dirges.  8. Gender and class in the Nascent Church and in early Christianity: a comparative study of two experiments.  9. Domesticity and its discontents. 10. Ponnambalam Arunachalam and Edward Carpenter: The Ripples of a friendship.  11. Is the another country?. 12. Imported or indigenous knowledges? Feminist ontological/epistemological political.  Contributors. Appendix. 
 

Activist, feminist, labour historian and theoretician, Kumari Jayawardena is one of the most significant political thinkers in South Asia today. Her academic and poetical work has inspired generations of South Asian scholars and activists over the last few decades, and the essays in this volume, contributed by scholars eminent in their particular areas of interest, address many of her concerns. 

A critical engagement with nationalism and its linkages with gender, class and ethnicity has animated much of Jayawardena's work. Her pioneering book on Third World Feminism and Nationalism showed that feminism was not a western import and that its existence and growth in emerging post colonial nation states was distinctly related to their modernising impulses. Importantly she paved the way for an understanding of Third World Feminisms as varied and rooted in regional, historical and cultural specificities. 

Many of the essay's in this volume are in dialogue with this initial post-colonial feminist phase and take it as a point of departure to explore several issues that animate current feminist activism and scholarship. There is a concern with second-wave feminism's stress on a politics of difference and recognition that challenges the premises of universal human rights standards and the potential and pitfalls of feminism's third, transnational phase. There is an exploration of the relationally of gender to the state, historiography, multiculturalism and feminist methodology. [from the back cover] 

Author        :      Mamata Swain, Jagannath Lenka and Minati Mallick (eds.)

Publisher    :       Serials  

Year           :       2007

Pages         :       296

Contents: Acknowledgements. Part I. Gender dimension in disaster management. Part 2. Impact of disaster on women.  Part 3. Disaster management strategy.

 

The book has been divided into three sections. The first section contains theoretical papers that stress the need for incorporating a gender perspective in disaster management starting from disaster preparedness, rescue, relief, response, reconstruction to rehabilitation. The specific needs of women need to be understood and addressed properly in disaster management interventions. The second section deals with socio-economic, psychological and cultural impacts of disaster on women. It includes many empirical studies highlighting the impacts of both natural disasters like cyclone, drought and man made disasters like displacement and fire. The third section contains papers prescribing appropriate disaster management strategy, drawing policy implications for different types of disasters and formulating action plan for proper rehabilitation of disaster affected women. [from the back cover]

Author       :    Ava Darshan Shrestha and Rita Thapa (eds.)  

Publisher   :     Manohar

Year          :     2007

Pages       :     228

Contents     :     Preface.  1. Introduction: Historical background: the nature of conflict in Modern South Asia.  2. For her the war continues: women, insurgency and the Chittagong Hill tracts, Bangladesh. 3. Implications of insurgency on women: the Sri Lankan experience. 4. On the edge: the impact of the insurgency on Nepali women. 5. Post-9/11: terror, terrorists and women. 6. Resources or symbols? Women and armed conflicts in India.

This book exposes the different ways in which violent conflicts increase patriarchal controls on women and the impact of militarization on women and men, on masculinities and femininities. In all the societies and communities under discussion in the five countries, the authors point to the different ways in which women react and respond to the conflict. They become victims of various acts of repression and abuse. The book exposes that even armed militant women choose to respond to violence with violence. On the other side militants mothers respond to violence with non-violent means of political agitation.

The authors articulate a general position on the need to redefine democracy within the South Asian context, in a way which recognizes minority rights and acknowledges the nature of all South Asian states as multicultural and multinational. Within this overarching framework, the authors see women's involvement in militancy and in peace building as enabling a new construction of democracy, human rights and citizenship. The need for a reconceptualization of security to mean human security and peace with justice, rights and equality is both advocated and emphasized.

In this process, the authors address the need to begin to deconstruct the exercise of masculinist power in its different forms, especially as played out in war and conflict. [from the back cover]

Author         :     United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Year           :       2006

Pages         :       66

Contents     :       1.Executive Summary.  2. Introduction.  3. Overview of Water for Asian Cities (WAC) Programme in India and Priority Areas.  4. Rapid Gender Assessment and Emerging issues for Strategy and Action.  5. Gender Mainstreaming Strategy in Water for Asian Cities Programme in India.  6. Action Plan in Thematic Areas of WAC.  7. Synergy in Gender Mainstreaming Strategy of WAC Programme and Gender Action Plan of MP Urban Project(UWSEIP).  8. Indicators of Achievement.  9. Annexure- Action Plan for implementing GMS:Time frame, Responsible Authorities.  10. References.  11. Glossary

This strategy document emphasizes the benefits of entrusting the responsibility to groups of women and men of taking control of solving their water and sanitation problems at the local level, particularly slums which are highly deficient in water and sanitation services. It highlights the need for capacity building at different levels, from head offices to the grassroots level, to apply gender sensitive budgeting, impact analysis and monitoring and evaluation.

Author    :   United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Year         : [2007]

Pages      :  86

Contents   : 1. Introduction.  2. Legal Policy and Institutional Framework.  3. Introducing the Four Cioties: Bhopal, Gwalior, Indore and Jabalpur.  4. Water and Sanitation.  5. Emerging Issues for A Strategy And Action.

 

This publication has been brought out in partnership with Mahila Chetna Manch, an NGO based in Bhopal (India). It forms the basis of gender mainstreaming strategy for water and sanitation initiatives in these four project cities. The assessment highlights the critical need for gender disaggregated data in water supply and sanitation services and the importance of gender-sensitive indicators and gender audits to properly inform water and sanitation policies and strategies.

Author      :     Archana Parashar and Amita Dhanda. (eds.)

Publsher   :     Routledge,

Year         :      2008 

Pages       :      374

Contents  :     Acknowledgements. Introduction. B. Sivaramayya: a work profile. 1. Inheriting modernity: religious intolerance in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.  2. Wives and whores: the regulation of the economies in sexual labour.  3. Saving custom or promoting incest? Post-independence marriage law and Dravidian marriage practices.  4. A psychosocial critique of the law of adoption in India.  5. Paternalistic law, autonomous child and the responsible judges. 6. Dusphoric bodies of law. 7. Sexuality, freedom and the law.  8. Divorce at the wife's initiative in Muslim personal law: what are the options and what are their implications for women's welfare?. 9. Hindu conjugality: transition from sacrament to contractual obligations. 10. Family, work and matrimonial property: implications for women and children. 11. Succession laws and gender justice. 12. 'Bargaining', gender equality and legal change: the case of India's inheritance laws. About the contributors. Index.

This volume is a collection of articles by scholars across disciplines to create a discourse of family law independent of religious personal law, whilst striving for fairness and justices to all. It demonstrates the artificiality of the public-private divide and seeks the systematic development of ideas for a fair and just family law in contemporary India.

The book does not merely document the pathologies of power within the family but also makes proposals for remedying these inequities. It is not confined to considering what changes need to be inducted into existing family law to make it more just, but also strategies on the means and methods of effecting the change. It lifts the familial veil and scrutinises the status, rights and disabilities of some of the subordinated members of the family. The volume is an invitation to redefine family law with the twin tools of reflection and responsibility.[from the back cover]

Author        :        Lawyers Collective Women’s Rights Initiative

Year           :        2007 

Pages         :        207

  Contents      :        1. Introduction.  2. The Rationale.  3. The PWDVA at a Glance.  4. Objectives and Methodlogy.  5. Infrastructure.  6. Access to Relief Under the PWDVA.  7. Orders Passed by Courts.  8. Substantive Issues.  9. Role of the Media.  10. Inconclusion.  11. Recommendations.  12. Final Remarks from the Project Director’s Desk.  13. Annexures.
 

The first Monitoring and Evaluation report on the PWDVA compiled and published by the Lawyers Collective. The report has been prepared on the basis of the information collected from the office of the Chief Justice of India. The Ministry of Women and Child Development and from individual/organizations working on the issue of domestic violence all over the country.

The objective of the report is to evaluate one year of the functioning of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, identify best practices adopted and problem that have arisen and suggested ways in which the problem can be overcome.

Author       :         Shree Mulay and Jackie Kirk (eds.)

Publisher   :      Anthem  Press

Year          :      2007

Pages        :      245

Contents     :      1. Acknowledgements.  2. Acronyms and Abbreviations.  3. Contributions to this Volume.  4. Preamble by Senator Mobina Jaffer.  5.Forward.  6.Setting the Scene.  7. Canada and United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) on Women, Peace and Security.  8.  Transcending Borders:Role of Women in Building Peace Between India - Pakistan . 9. Role of Women in Building Peace Between India and Pakistan: A Pakistani Perspective.  10. Demography and Democracy: Reflections on Violence Against Women in Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing.  11. Women and the Peace Movement in Pakistan.  12. Women in Kashmir Conflict: Victimhood and Beyond.  13. Identity and Nationalism: Where are Women in Kashmiri Politics?.  14. Politics, Peacekeeping and Women’s Transformational Leadership.  15. Experiences of Women during and after Violent Conflicts: Implications for Women in South Asia.  16. The Role of Media: An Indian Perspective.  17. The Role of Media: A Pakistani Perspective.  18. Peace Efforts by the South Asian Diaspora.  19. Education for Peacebuilding.  20. Moving Forward: International, Regional, National and Local Perspectives.

 The contributions to this volume emerged from an intence dialogue on Women’s Role in Building Peace between India and Pakistan in Montreal in 2004. The wide range of responses to that dialogue-enthusiastic,optimistic and a few cynical and dismissive-demonstrated that a great deal of work remains to be done to build meaningful linkages between civil society organizations; governments and academics of the two countries to make peace a reality. Exchanges and mutual support have to be across countries and continents to link those working towards lasting peace in the region with those working outside.

 Through these contributions, the authors highlights the impact of conflict on women’s lives. Women’s integral and multifarious role in peacebuilding become apparent through the diverse subjects addressed- women’s different positions in relation to nationalistic , religious and other dominant discourses, and the role of media in perpetuating violence in India and Pakistan , to mention just a few. The essays reveal the significant part played by women and women’s organizations in peace processes, and the support and contributions that are needed at both national and international levels. The need for change and the limitless possibilities for women to initiate that change are repeatedly expressed through out this work. [from the back cover]

Author       :      S. Gokilavani and R. Nageswari

Publisher   :      Regal

Year          :      2007

Pages        :      256

Contents    :     Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Profile of the case study. 3. Studies on consumer rights and feminism. 4. Women's consumer behaviour. 5. Women's consumer awareness and decision-making. 6. Differential consumer behaviour of women, socio-cultural and gender variables. 7. Strategic measures for promoting awareness of consumer issues and rights among women. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. 

The modern consumer behaviour has developed as a complex system involving interaction of various social and economic factors. Though consumer behaviour was a part of the subject matter of human beings. Studies got it's identity as a separate area of the study nearly one and a half decade ago. Almost marketing of a every product is considered as consumer-oriented. 

Women in general and particularly in India have expressed a multi-faceted behaviour apart from being performer of the roles as mother, daughter, wife, sister and so on. Breaking this traditional role women have started performing roles outside home especially as an aftermath of Feminist Movement and subsequently in different context. Consumer behaviour of the women deserves research and to find out the characterizes of women in consumerism. It deserves special focus also as it has some feministic implications. [from the back cover]

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