Indian Women: Health, Education and Poverty

Contents: Preface. 1. Gender and poverty in the context of human development, health and education. 2. Poor health, poor women: how reproductive health affects poverty. 3. Women\'s health literacy and health promotion. 4. Women and rural employment: fighting poverty by redefining gender roles. 5. Gender, poverty and human development. 6. Education alone can drive poverty permanently. 7. Plight of Indian women: a multidimensional assessment. 8. Feminisation of poverty and empowerment of women - an Indian perspective and experience. 9. Women in poverty: a new global underclass. 10. Gender, poverty, and postnatal depression: a study of mothers. 11. Women\'s economic roles and child survival: the case of India. 12. Quiet revolution that transformed women\'s employment, education and family. 13. Indigenous women\'s reproductive rights. 14. Unlocking the power of women: is education the key? 15. Value of higher education of women in rural areas. 16. Problem of gender inequality and expansion of education of women. 17. Toward a feminist politics? The Indian women\'s movement in historical perspective. Bibliography. Index.

"To understand the plight of poor women around the world, consider the stories of Ade, Runa, and Reina. On the outskirts of Ibadan, Nigeria, Ade cultivates a small, sparsely planted plot with a baby on her back and other visibly undernourished children nearby. Her efforts to grow an improved soybean variety, which could have fortified her children\'s diet, failed because she lacked the extra time to tend the new crop, did not have a spouse who could help her, and could not afford hired labor." (jacket)