Essays on Contemporary Gender Issues

Contents Preface 1 Microfinance and women empowerment Nidhi Sharma 2 Gender equality and women empowerment myth or reality Sandhyarani Nayak Pranab Choudhury and Puspa Dash 3 Womens empowerment through self help groups state interventions Andhra Pradesh experience PW Purushotham and M Veera Prasad 4 Women in India from home maker to manager Niranjan Pani Puspanjali Mallick and S Bhupati Rao 5 Hindu egalitarianism a study of caste and gender SP Pani 6 Women education and Gandhi Geeta Satpathy and Sarita Mishra 7 Behavioral pattern of working women in balancing home and office Haryana perspective Manjusha Sharma and Garima Pant 8 Gender and decision making in an India state Swarnamayee Tripathy 9 Protection of women from domestic violence act 2005 a legal perspective and challenges for womens empowerment Neelima Deshmukh 10 The cultural designation of feminism theory and praxis Nandini Sahu 11 Feminist theories and liberation of women T Krishna Kanth K Lalitha Kumari and Shanta Kumari 12 Women and distance education Prajna Paramita Panigrahi 13 Gender and language Sridhara Mshra 14 Decoding the images of men and women in popular media Ashish Kumar Dwivedy 15 Indian music videos and gender studies current scenario and future directions Amrita Basu 16 Relevance of feminism to the afro American novel AJ Khan and Z Jabeen Index The book Essays on Contemporary Gender Issues focuses on varied aspects of gender studies Besides theoretical aspects it encompasses the dynamics of women empowerment economic power of women through SHGs and decision making area of women Also it tries to explore gender aspects in languages videos and advertisements No doubt in common pretence gender equality is the order of the day But whether gender equality is a myth or reality is the topic of discussion Further women and egalitarianism Gandhi on women education aspects are also examined here in brief Above all the book exhibits the dual role of women as home maker and office manager Really this is a small step to put forth a big agenda for women development Sixteen articles contributed by scholars of repute on diverse aspects of gender studies make core of the work jacket 310 pp.…