Women Speak
Contents: Preface. List of contributors. I. Women--Equality and inequality: 1. Gender inequalities and women\'s empowerment/Suswagata Paul. 2. Women in search of equality/Anuradha Sengupta and Arpita Ghosh. 3. Mother\'s negative attitude towards girl child--a study in Birbhum District, West Bengal/Subhabrata Dutta. 4. En-gendering the Dalits discourse in Panchayat\'s perspective/Dipankar Mandal. 5. Witch hunting and status of tribal women/Bhola Nath Ghosh and Kunal Bandyopadhyay. 6. Indian woman\'s succession rights--equality, equity and empowerment/Sarbeswar Chatterjee. 7. Some aspects of gender differences in two states of North East India/Bhola Nath Ghosh, Manoranjan Pal and Premananda Bharati. II. Women in urbanity: 8. Women entrepreneurship in urban informal sector--economic necessities or opportunities?/Tanuka Roy. 9. Women workers in Eritrea--a case study in textile manufacturing unit/D.V. Madhusudan Rao and Shankar Chatterjee. 10. Institutional support for women entrepreneurship/Subhabrata Dutta. 11. Women portrayal in advertisings--illustrations, socio-ethical controversies and corrections/G. Stanley Jaya Kumar. III. Health, empowerment and women: 12. Women\'s empowerment--from family to active politics/Partha Sarathi De. 13. Reproductive child health programme and adolescent girl\'s health--a case study in Manipur/M.T. Devi. 14. Evolving strategies for sustainable empowerment of women--a case for universalization of education/Shiva Kumar Lal. 15. Right--based activism for women and children--reflections from NGO Evaluations/Muhammad Hasan Imam. 16. Women empowerment through Self Help Groups (SHGs)--a study on Mumbai Rag Picking Women/Chandan Kumar. 17. Right to Die--Slippery slops of your decision/evaluation regarding the paper may be considered as a final decisionthical dialectics/Ruby Sain. Index.
"This collective endeavour of the young minds is aimed at provoking penetrating inquiry of issues. The contours of gender issues in India are a difficult terrain and reflect complexities and contradictions of our socio-economic system.
This volume is divided into three broad section--Women--Equality and inequality; Women in urbanity and Health; empowerment and women. With issue-based thematic discussions all the contributors have contributed socially significant works.
The book contains in-depth and illuminating discussion on wide ranging issues of women. There are 17 articles included in this volume and all articles have their own identity. The book is a worthy contribution in the field of gender-studies.
The views and opinions expressed by the contributors are of immense value for policymakers, planners, administrators and academicians for restructuring and rejuvenating policies and strategies related to women in future." (jacket)
