Study of Womens Problematic in India : Assessing Contemporary State of the Art

Contents Preface. 1. Study of women's problematic in India Assessing contemporary state of the art/RBS Verma H.S. Verma and Nadeem Hasnain. I. Differential perceptions of women's images 2. Honour gender and the legend of Meera Bai/Pratibha Jain and Sangeeta Sharma. 3. Manufactured beauties India's integration into the global beauty industry/Susan Runkle. 4. How modern are we Cultural contradictions of India's modernity/Meera Nanda. 5. Development theory and gendered approach to development a review in Third World Perspective/Debnarayan Sarkar. II. Disaggregating women as a category 6. Situating tribal women/Nilika Mehrotra. 7. Who are the rural women and what is development/B.R. Bapuji. 8. Negotiating the Mohalla Exclusion identity and Muslim women in Mumbai/Sameera Khan. 9. Gender conflict and displacement contesting Infantilisation of forced migrant women/Rita Manchanda. III. Assessing women's empowerment in India 10. To be or not to be Problems in locating women in public policy/Devaki Jain. 11. Disability index a measure of deprivation among disabled/A.K. Mishra and Ruchika Gupta. 12. Measuring gender disparity using time use statistics/Rajesh Bhatia. 13. Indicators of nutrition for women and children current status and recommendations/Fred Arnold Parveen Nangia and Umesh Kapil. 14. Development effectiveness through gender mainstreaming gender equality and poverty reduction in South Asia/Govind Kelkar. 15. Sieving budgets for gender/Nirmala Bannerjee and Maithreyi Krishnaraj. 16. What does the state do for Indian women/Nirmala Banerjee and Poulomi Roy. IV. Adequacy of research in women's problematic 17. Is Gender easy to study Some reflections/Maithreyi Krishnaraj. 18. Research in women studies need for a critical appraisal/Maithreyi Krishnaraj. 19. Women's studies in Indian universities/Veena Poonacha. 20. View from the Margins sociology of education and gender/Karuna Chanana. 21. Emerging concerns/Neera Desai and Usha Thakkar. Index. This collection of 21 papers is third volume in the three volume series on women's empowerment in India. Contributors include some of the best names in women's studies. This volume assesses the contemporary state of the art of study of women's problematic in India. This assessment is arranged on ten major themes disaggregating women as a category women's specific problems health education women work and workplace women in new work areas treatment of the women's empowerment by the Indian state institutional experiments in facilitating women's empowerment assessing women empowerment in India and adequacy of research in women's problematic. The assessment identifies the fault lines in the focus of the feminist movement the areas that need greater research probing and the steps that need to be taken to improve the pedagogy of the women's studies. The book would be of immense use to the activists of the feminist movement feminist researchers teachers in women's studies and professionals engaged in formulating policy process programme and organization design of the women's empowerment in India. 378 pp.…