Dynamics of Gender Disparity: North East Lens

Contents: Part I: Introduction. 1. Bringing Gender disparity into focus in North-Eastern India/Sumi Krishna. Part II: Gender Disparity in power structure. 2. Are social Hierarchies unjust : a gendered approach to power structures/Manorama Sharma. 3. Disempowered gender - status of women in North East India/Binayak Dutta. 4. Re-assessing gender, gender disparities and gender issues in North East India: a socio geographic perspective/Anindita Datta. 5. Gender disparity and power structure in the institution of higher education in Assam/Madhumita Purkayasrha. 6. Women and political representation in Meghalaya some observation/Susmita Sen Gupta. 7. Gender and disparity: issues and implications/Sanjoy Choudhury. Part III: Legal Awareness, Legal aids and Gender. 8. Land rights and women/Malabika Das Gupta. 9. Women: legal awareness and legal literacy/O.D.V. Ladia. 10. Legal awareness and the women legal aid cell in Assam/Meeta Deka. Part IV: Gender Disparity in Culture and Social Development. 11. Tradition of Dance rituals and gender dynamics in Manipur/Reena Laisram. 12. Gender disparity in the Muslim society : tradition, continuity and change/Saidun Nessa, Saifun Nessa. 13. Aging in matrilineal society : a study of mercy home in Shilong/Daianolin Nongsiej. 14. Literacy, education and social development/A. Henia. 15. Gender gaps in literacy with particular reference to Assam/Dulumoni Goswami. 16. Pattern of female literacy in Assam : a socio-spatial analysis/Chandra Kala Magar, Bimal K. Kar. 17. Gender Disparity in Literacy among the scheduled castes population in the Brahmaputra Valley Assam/Lakshyahira Datta, Momita Goswami. 18. Pattern of female literacy in Guwahati city and its adjoining areas/Semim Wara Begum, Bimal K. Kar    . Part V: Disempowering women, Violence and oppression Against women. 19. Gender concern and food security in rice farming systems in North East India case study of Tripura/V. T. Darlong, D.K. Hore, S. Deb Barma. 20. Gender disparity vis-a-vis change in tribal societies : a micro study of Arunachal Pradesh & Meghalaya/Bibhash Dhar. 21. The Homeless Mentally ill women : an empirical study of Guwahati City/Gayatree Goswami. 22. Voice against women in India - a brief study/Ms Nivedita Chakraborty, Ms Jaya Gupta Choudhury. 23. Empowering women : North East Scenario/Paulavi Das. Part VI: Gender Disparity in Economy, Occupations and Livelihood. 24. Gender disparities in occupation : some observation on its structure and composition in North East India/Pabitra Giri. 25. Forest livelihood and gender: livelihood strategies of Khasi rural women/Rekha M Shangpliang. 26. Women, media and globalization: an inner introspection/Rosemary B. Choudhury, Mrigakshi Hazarika. 27. Female domestic workers in Shillong/Jane Eufemia Warjri.

The book is a consortium of research papers presented by scholars and academicians of different fields The objective of the book was to bring into focus the disparities that infest the economic, political and cultural status of women in general in Indian context and that in the context of the Northeast India.