Women in Rural Development : Contemporary Social Policy and Practice

Contents Preface. I. Introduction and Framework 1. Women and rural development an overview of policies and practice/Kiran Prasad. II. Policy Strategies and Practice 2. Self Help Groups and rural development/Celine Sunny. 3. Women Self Help Groups in the process of rural development/Alka Srivastava. 4. Self Help Groups and rural development in Tamil Nadu a micro level examination/S. Ramachandran A. Subbiah and A.K. Ravishankar. 5. Social capital as product of anti poverty initiative the Kudumbashree approach/K.N. Jayan and Sindhu Sadanandan. 6. Women in rural development through Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana/Vanitha Chethan and B. Krishna Murthy. 7. Contribution of DWCRA to development of women/U.V. Somayajulu. 8. Empowerment of rural women through value added products/K. Shivaramu B. Krishna Murthy D. Vijayalakshmi and K.V. Jamuna. III. Ecology and Rural Women 9. Environment friendly technologies for farmwomen/Narendrasingh B. Chauhan 10. Women and organic farming/Asha Kachru. 11. Women and natural resource management/V.L.V. Kameswari. 12. Participation of rural women in irrigation management/Carolin Arul and K. Karunakaran. IV. Rural Women in Development and Activism 13. Tribal women and NGOs in rural development in Orissa/K.B. Nayak. 14. Women in rural development through Panchayati Raj Institutions/S. Govinda Gowda B. Krishna Murthy and M.T. Lakshminarayan. 15. Technologies for rural women's development/D. Padmavati. 16. ICTs in the development of rural women/Waheeda Sultana. 17. Critical issues in the economic development of rural women/Kiran Prasad. Women in Rural Development Contemporary Social Policy and Practice addresses the socio economic status of rural women in India the origin of rural development development planning shift towards rural women development programmes of the government and policies and programme interventions for empowerment of rural women. The book begins with an overview of the policies and practice for the development of rural women. The second section presents a wide spectrum of rural development strategies including the concept of self help micro credit and value addition of rural products to build the economic capacities of rural women. The third section reports the significant role played by rural women in responding to environmental challenges and promoting sustainable development through interesting cases. The last section offers a critical insight into the current welfare strategies for rural women in development and raises issues that would shape development activism from a gender sensitive dimension. The book examines the difficulties and struggles of rural women and provides correctives for their development and enhanced quality of life. The interdisciplinary scope of the book make it an ideal text for a wide range of disciplines including women's studies development studies rural development sociology social work agricultural sciences extension studies and social policy. 372 pp. …