Women in local governance

Subha, K

Contents: (i) Bangalore municipal corporation (ii) Women in local electoral process (iii) Nature of emerging leadership (iv) Participation in political process and decision making (v) Women and grass-roots bureaucracy (vi) Major findings, suggesstions and reflections.;

Women in Tibet

Gyatso, Janet et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9781850656531, 1850656533

This book explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. It focusses on the lives of individual women, whether from textual sources or from anthropological data, and show that Tibetan women have found ways to assume leadership roles and to explore educational opportunities in a variety of contexts.

Women pioneers in India's renaissance: as I remember her, contributions from eminent women of present-day India, ed. by Sushila Nayar

ISBN: 9788123737669, 8123737661

This volume brings together life sketches of 67 Indian women who not only actively participated in the freedom struggle but also helped in shaping the modern India.

Women workers in ancient India

Tyagi, Anil Kumar (1954- )

ISBN: 9788185484921, 8185484929

Contents: (i) Women workers in ancient India (ii) Women in the pre-class social formation (iii) Social formation and emergence of women workers (iv) Women workers in social formation (v) Crisis in old formation and his effect on women workers.;

Women's education in India: myth and reality

Chaudhary, Pratima

Contents: (i) Education policies and women (ii) History of women's education (iii) Institutional efforts and women's education (v) Problems in women's education (vi) Education and gender bias (vi) Education and women's development.;

Women's empowerment: a strategy for development, ed. by Binay Kumar Pattnaik et al

ISBN: 9789380574752, 9380574754

The book covers three broad dimensions of women and development to understand the current state of women's empowerment and gender equality in India. The first dimension encompasses the dynamics of measurement of women's empowerment by considering various individual, household, community / neighbourhood and societal characteristics.

Women, identity and India's call centre industry

Basi, JK Tina

ISBN: 9780415482288, 0415482283

Workers education in India and abroad

Mahar, Allah (1938- )

ISBN: 9788185251103, 818525110X

Words of her own: women authors in nineteenth century Bengal

Murmu, Maroona

ISBN: 9780199498000, 0199498008

This book examines the sociocultural incentives that enabled the dawn of middle-class Hindu and Brahmo women authors at that time. The book contends that there were women authors who flouted the norms of literary aesthetics and tastes set by male literati, thereby creating a literary tradition of their own in Bangla and becoming agents of history at the turn of the century.

Fearless freedom

Krishnan, Kavita

ISBN: 9780143444688, 0143444689

In this groundbreaking and radical book, the author locates the personal and political repercussions of erasing women from public spaces. She argues that many real and violent threats to female autonomy are, in fact, hidden in plain sight.

Historicizing gendered modernities in India,

ISBN: 9789389850000, 9389850002

The essays cover varied aspects of gender identities, including the private spheres of elite women who often expressed their freedom through their subversive, restricted sexuality, thus shaking off the shackles of domination.

The world that belongs to us: an anthology of queer poetry from South Asia

ISBN: 9789353574574, 9353574579

This first-of-its-kind anthology brings together the best of contemporary queer poetry from South Asia, both from the subcontinent and its many diasporas.