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Title : Domestic Women Workers
Author : Tanuja
Trivedi
Publisher : Jnanada
Year :
2009
Pages : 339
Contents : Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Female Workers in the Era
of Liberalisation. 3. Conditions of Women in the Housework. 4.
Division of Labour in Housework. 5. Housework as Responsibility. 6.
Cultural Roots of Housework. 7. Reintegration of Female Domestic
Workers. 8. A Sociological Perspective of Women in Agriculture. 9.
Social Protection for Unorganised Workers. 10. Socioeconomic Profile of
Domestic Workers. 11. Trade Union Action for Domestic Workers. 12.
Female Labour Participation in Rural and Urban India. 13. Contemporary
Labour Laws. Bibliography. Index. |
We talk about and love to read stories revolving around kings
and queens of bygone era, and eager to know more about famous
and rich personalities, gossips, scandals of hot actors and
actress of silver screen, infamous bandit queens of Chambals and
the list is long. Newspapers, magazines, cheap books are full of
these stories. But there is another side of picture also.
Now, this is
the right time to think about the problems and solutions of
low-paid women workers. At least, Government has awakened from
deep slumber and forcefully making rules and regulations in the
favour of these women. [from the back cover]
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Title
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Farmer’s
Suicides in India: Impact on Women
Author : B
Ratna Kumari
Publisher : Serials
Year :
2009
Pages : 186
Contents : Foreword. Preface.
Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Agricultural Distress in India.
3. Review of Literature. 4. Review of Agricultural Policies in India.
5. Socio Demographic Profile of the Sample Households. 6. Empirical
Analysis. 7. Case Studies. 8. Suggestions and Policy Implications.
Bibliography. Index. |
“Thousands of
farmers have committed suicides in India in general and Andhra
Pradesh in the past ten years is known and seen by media,
policy-makers, researchers and social workers. Now a days,
seeds, fertilizers and pesticide dealers are at the centre of
growing controversy in India and Andhra Pradesh, as they are the
new money lenders to a peasantry strapped for credit. In order
to get rid of their financial crisis ill-treatment and
harassment by the money lenders, the poor farmers have committed
suicides as there is nobody to hear their last cry. For many in
Andhra Pradesh’s Agrarian crisis, even death is not the end of
the trouble. Instead it is the beginning of a new burden for the
surviving women such as mothers, wives and daughters of the
suicide committing farmers. To begin with, they were doing the
bulk of the work. Now they have to face the banks and the money
lenders. They have to bring up the children and send them to
schools. Raising and spending money for the needs of the
households becomes their job. And on top of it all, they have to
run the farm. Sometimes, the pressure becomes too much. In this
struggle against poverty and sudden death (suicides) by their
male members in the family, the stress on the widows is
enormous. In this context, the literature on farmers’ suicides
is available to some extent, but no study has been taken up so
far on the impact of the suicides’ farmers on women. Hence as an
issue of major policy concern, it commands high reason
priority.”
[from the back cover]
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Title :
Genderscapes: Revisioning Natural Resource
Management
Author : Sumi Krishna
Publisher :
Zubaan
Year :
2008
Pages :
476
Contents : Acknowledgements. Introduction. Workspaces.
Actionscapes. Genderscapes. Appendix 1 Signposts:Essays. Appendix II:
Keywords. Bibliography. Index.
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Why does gender bias persist in natural resource management
policies and programmes, despite increasing recognition of rural
and tribal women's contribution to conservation and
sustainability. Examining this question from the perspective of
an academic and a practitioner, Sumi Krishna looks at diverse
areas including the socialization of attitudes, the shaping of
community ideologies, and the construction of disciplines and
research methodologies
Eschewing both conventional and ecofeminist approaches, she
advances the novel concept of ‘genderscapes’ to reflect the
totality of women’s lifeword’s and revision natural resource
management in complex landscapes. Rich case studies unravel the
caring practices of forest-dwellers, women’s knowledge of
biodiversity, their responsibility for farming and food
production.
This book probes the instrumental approach of large official
programmes that exploit women under the guise of empowerment, as
also the potential and limitations of NGO interventions. With
fresh insights into policy-making and institutional practices,
Sumi Krishna argues that women’s economic and livelihood needs
cannot be separated from their socio-political interests, and
that resource management cannot be transformed without
collective struggles for social and gender justice. [from the back cover]
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Title :
Invisible Women,
Visible Histories : Gender, Society
and Polity in North India
(Seventh to Twelfth Century AD)
Author : Devika Rangachari
Publisher : Manohar
Year :
2009
Pages : 532
Contents : Acknowledgements. 1.
Introduction. Part 1: Kashmir Part II: Kanaujuj. Part III:
Bengal-Bihar. Bibliography. Index. |
"This book
examines certain gendered aspects of the early medieval period
in North India (Between the seventh and Twelfth Centuries AD)
through a study of prominent--but respective--regional kingdoms
located in Kashmir, Kanauj and across Bengal and Bihar. By
examining important epigraphic and literary sources pertaining
to these polities in as comprehensive a manner as possible, it
shows that gender is a cardinal angle from which to view this
period and, additionally, that the same set of sources can yield
differing interpretations. It also highlights the indifference
of most secondary sources towards gender and related issues. The
book, therefore, strives to address a lacuna in the historical
reconstruction of the society and polity in this time-span.
Although early medieval Kashmir, Kanauj and Bengal-Bihar are
linked by their status as important regional powers in this
period and by their close political interactions, the book shows
that the role and status of women differed considerably
according to their regional contexts. The picture, therefore, is
not a unified one, thereby stressing the fact that sweeping
statements on women cannot be made to apply to early medieval
North India as a whole--as has hitherto been the trend. The
problems and possibilities involved in a gender analysis of this
sort that examines the role and presence of women vis-à-vis men
is highlighted, in the process. Areas with the potential for
future investigation are also indicated. The pivotal importance
of gender in any historical reconstruction of the early medieval
period in North India is thereby underscored. [from the back cover]
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Title :
Islamic Women : The
Modernists' Approach
Author :
Amanullah Fahad
Publisher : Jnanada
Year :
2009
Pages : 332
Contents : Preface. 1. Status of Muslim
Women. 2. Historical Perspectives of Women in the Ancient
Civilization. 3. Issues of Concern for Muslim Women. 4.The Verdict of
Faith. 5. The Verdict of Jurisprudence. 6. Women in Muslim Society.
7. Resurgence of Women. 8. Muslim Women: Challenges and
Opportunities. 9. Historical Development of Islamic Law. 10.
Perceptions of Women. 11.Interpreting in Qur'anic Qawwam. 12. Islamic
Feminism and Gender Equality. 13. Politics of Islamic Feminism. 14.
Muslim Women's Rights Discourse in the Pre-Independence Period.
Bibliography. Index. |
"The Muslim
women are largely deprived and backward, they continue to be
uneducated, resource - less and victimized in spite of equal
treatment rendered them by the Quran and the prophetic
traditions. Over the years, several scholars have produced a
number of useful works. The aim of this compilation is to
provide the readers, the modernists' views and the feminists'
reflections made on the subject and to place them systematically
in their true perspectives. This would enable the readers to be
fully aware of the modernists approach on the basic issues
concerning Islamic women reflected in the writings of present
day Muslim world." [from the back cover]
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Title :
Kashmir the History and Pandit Women’s
Struggle for Identity
Author : Suneethi Bakshi
Publisher :
Vitasta
Year :
2009
Pages :
362
Contents : Acknowledgements. Foreword. Introduction. Chapter 1:
Transitions of a People. Chapter 2: The History of
Kashmir Down the Ages.
Chapter 3: Advent of Islam. Chapter 4: A Century of Dogra Rule.
Chapter 5: Pandits and Culture. Chapter 6: Changing Times. Chapter 7:
Challenges Now and Tomorrow. Appendix. References. Glossary. Index.
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Kashmir The History & Pandit Women’s Struggle for Identity
attempts to trace the history of the Kashmiri Pandit community
from their claimed origins in the region of the
Caspian Sea through the millennia to the present times. This
book is unique as it brings a perspective about the women of the
community which has witnessed the worst of exoduses.
It tracks the origin and history of the people of the Valley,
starting from the Aryans and the Saraswat Brahmins to what was
considered the ‘foreign rule’ of Mughals, Afghans, Chaks and
Dogras, and the deep impact that these dynasties left on the
social, political and religious milieu of the Kashmiri Pandits,
particularly their women.From Kota Rani, the Hindu queen lost in
the pages of history, who married a Sultan just to restore peace
in her land; to Lalleshwari, who sang praises for the land she
was born in; all these women tried to restore the lost glory of
the Valley.
From being a well-researched historical document, the book
also serves the purpose of a cultural guide, elucidating the
various festivals, customs and rites of passages practised by
the women of the Pandit community. The author has described the
trials and tribulations, and triumphs of the women through all
these centuries. At this point in time, following the events of
1989–90 which forced the most recent of their transitions out of
the Valley, there is a serious felt need to record their history
for the younger generations who are ignorant of who they are,
their roots, heritage and culture. And this is what the author
has endeavoured to do through this book. [from the back cover]
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Title :
Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in
Colonial Bengal
Author : Rochona Majumdar
Publisher :
Oxford
University
Press
Year :
2009
Pages :
343
Contents : Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I. The
Emergence of a Marriage Market. Part II. Culture and the Marketplace.
Part III. Marriage and the Law. Appendices. Notes. Glossary.
Bibliography. Index.
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An innovative
cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices
in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenges the assumption that
arranged marriage is an antiquated practice. Rochona Majumdar
demonstrates that in the late colonial period Bengali marriage
practices underwent changes that led to a valorization of the
larger, intergenerational family as a revered, ‘ancient’ social
institution, with arranged marriage as the apotheosis of an
‘Indian’ tradition.
Majumdar meticulously documents the ways that these newly
embraced ‘traditions’—the extended family and arranged
marriage—entered into competition and conversation with other
emerging forms of kinship such as the modern unit of the couple,
with both models participating promiscuously in the new
‘marketplace’ for marriages, where matrimonial advertisements in
the print media and the payment of dowry played central roles.
She argues that together the kinship structures newly asserted
as distinctively Indian and the emergence of the marriage market
constituted what was and still is modern about marriages in
India.
The author examines three broad developments related to the
modernity of arranged marriage: the growth of a marriage market,
concomitant debates about consumption and vulgarity in the
conduct of weddings, and the legal regulation of family property
and marriages. Drawing on matrimonial advertisements, wedding
invitations, poems, photographs, legal debates, and a vast
periodical literature, she shows that the modernization of
families does not necessarily imply a transition from extended
kinship to nuclear family structures or from matrimonial
agreements negotiated between families to marriage contracts
between individuals.
Written in an accessible style, this book will be of immense
interest to scholars and students of colonial history, gender
studies, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. [from the back cover]
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Title : Motherhood in
India: Glorification
Without Empowerment
Author : Maithreyi Krishnaraj (ed.)
Publisher :
Routledge
Year :
2010
Pages :
359
Contents :
Preface by Veena Poonacha. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2.
Motherhood, Mothers, Mothering: A Multi-dimensional Perspective. 3.
Motherhood in Ancient India. 4. In Search of the Great Indian Goddess:
Motherhood Unbound. 5. In the Idiom of Loss: Ideology of Motherhood in
Television Serials- Mahabharata and Ramayana. 6. Representing
Nationalism: Ideology of Motherhood in Colonial
Bengal. 7. Mother, Mother-Community and Mother- Politics in Tamil
Nadu. 8. The Mother in Sane Guruji’s Shyamchi Ai. 9. Rites de
Passage of Matrescence and Social Construction of Motherhood among the
Coorgs in South
India. 10. Motherhood: Different Voices. 11. Images of Motherhood: The
Hindu Code Bill Discourse in India. Note on the Editor. Notes on
Contributors. Index. |
This book
presents an overview of the varied experiences and
representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern
times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various
contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology
in a woman's life is manufactured. This is demonstrated by
analyzing various institutional structures of society -
language, religion, media, law and technology.
The articles in this book are chronologically arranged, tracing
the different stages that motherhood as a concept has traversed
in India - from goddess worship to nationalism, to being a
vehicle of reproduction of the sexual division of labor and the
inheritance of property via the male-line. Underlying these
stages are the dialectics between them that have been
facilitated by agents such as the state - the ultimate
controller of a woman's reproductive powers. The feminist
critique of 'essentialising' the role of a woman has been
employed to deconstruct and humanise the experiences and lives
of mothers.
This anthology therefore attempts to initiate a meaningful and
'sensitive' engagement with issues pertaining to a woman's
autonomy over her body and her role also as a mother. The
articles presented here will be of interest to students and
scholars of gender studies, sociology, anthropology, media
studies, literature, history and South Asian studies. Since this
book concerns itself with human rights (with particular
reference to gender), it will be of valuable use to NGOs and
research organizations working on family welfare and women’s
issues. [from the back cover]
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Title : Women of Pride: The Devadasi Heritage
Author : Lakshmi
Vishwanathan
Publisher : Roli
Year :
2009
Pages : 210
Contents : Foreword. Introduction. The Ideal Courtesan. From the
Sacred to the Secular. The Legendry Dancers. Married to the God,
Slaves of Men. Royal Dynasties and Dancers. Seeking the Last of
Devadasis. Nautch Parties. Epilogue. Select Bibliography. Index.
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Devadasi, raja dasi or kutcheri
dasi - devadasis have acquired a variety of definitions and
roles over the years. Women of Pride studies, in depth, the
devadasi tradition and its transformation into a living cultural
phenomenon in the context of Hindu tradition. The book brings
into focus the activities and identities of the devadasis and
examines the functions and forms of the devadasi tradition.
The changing face of the tradition has been authenticated and
given a voice by the author by featuring some of the most
prominent devadasis of our times. The book also examines the
devadasi reform movement in a political, religious, and social
context.
[from the back cover]
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