Author: Janaki Nair
Publisher: Zed Books
ISBN: 9781856498920
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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The essays in this volume develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of Indian sexual relations and their boundaries of legitimacy.
Author: Nina Nurmila
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134033710
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This book examines Islam and women’s everyday life, focusing in particular on the highly controversial issue of polygamy. It discusses the competing Islamic interpretations of polygamy, and - based on detailed fieldwork conducted in Indonesia - women’s actual experiences and perceptions of the practice, and the impact of public policy.
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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134142358
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Author: Haleh Afshar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349207578
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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This book examines the contradictions between the prevailing ideologies and cultural practices and the economic interests of women in poor households in Asia. Here the primacy of economic needs necessitates that all members of the household, women, men and children engage in income generating employment; yet at the same time prevailing ideologies often impose restrictions on women's work. Thus caught in the poverty trap they face conflicting choices between survival needs and social acceptability. This collection of essays demonstrate the differing or complementary roles played by different agents such as the State, private employers, religious groups, the community and the family and their effects on the lives of impoverished women in India, Pakistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. The degree of complementarity or contradiction varies according to country, class, caste and ethnicity. What is of interest, however, is the way they are manifested and in whose interest they are resolved.
Author: Mala Khullar
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9788186706992
Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Contributed articles presented earlier at several seminars on women's studies and feminism in India.
Author: Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1924
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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
Languages : en
Pages : 1928
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Author: Pranab Panday
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317372638
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Economic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects. Encouraging women’s involvement, however, is often a major difficulty in societies where traditionally women’s status has been inferior and where women are expected to be domestic and passive. This book, based on extensive original research, considers major projects undertaken by non-governmental organisations in Bangladesh to encourage women’s participation. The book identifies the factors which motivated women to be active, discusses how women achieved the level of capacity and knowledge to enable them to serve their communities appropriately, assesses the major difficulties and recommends how empowerment projects can be improved in future. The book concludes that established institutions and traditional customs are often the greatest barrier to women’s participation.
Author: B. Bindu Ramachandran
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527564584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Anthropological studies of marine fishermen have explored immense diversity among fishing societies, and the management strategies of marine resources in the context of globalization and changing technologies deserve the utmost attention from researchers in an uncertain economy. In India, fishing communities belong to various different castes and religions. This book presents an anthropological study of Hindu marine fishermen in two neighboring fishing villages situated in the same coastal belt, but administered by two different state governments (Kerala and Pondicherry). It explores the ways in which state interventions influence the development paradigm of a marginalized society like marine fishermen, and discusses the distribution pattern of production systems and its significance at the household level. The book also considers the gendered forms of economic transformation in fishing due to declining marine resources, and technological and climate change. It also focuses on the role of women fish vendors in market spaces as instituted by their distribution and credit connections and the unique experiences of the development process through anxieties, compromises and survival in an uncertain economy. The book will be of interest to researchers, administrators and NGOs working for the inclusive development of marginalized communities sharing common property resources.
Author: Elizabeth Martyn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134394691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 523
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This book examines women's activism in the early years of independent Indonesia when new attitudes to gender, nationalism, citizenship and democratization were forming. It questions the meaning of democratization for women and their relationship to national sovereignty within the new Indonesian state, and discusses women's organizations and their activities; women's social and economic roles; and the different cultural, regional and ethnic attitudes towards women, while showing the failure of political change to fully address women's gender interests and needs. The author argues that both the role of nationalism in defining gender identity and the role of gender in defining national identity need equal recognition.
