Gender and politics in India
By: edited by Nivedita Menon.
Contributors: Menon, Nivedita.
Series: Themes in politics series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 539
Subjects: Human rights -- India; Women's rights -- India; Women in politics -- India; India -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Colonialism and the evolution of masculinist forestry / Vandana Shiva; title: Women, ecology and culture / Gabriele Dietrich; title: The gender and environment debate: lessons from India / Bina Agarwal; title: Structural adjustment, feminization of labour force and organizational strategies / Nandita Shah ... [et al.]; title: Impact of technological change on industrial women workers / Rohini Hensman; title: On women, equality and the constitution: through the looking glass of feminism / Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman; title: Rights, bodies and the law: rethinking feminist politics of justice / Nivedita Menon; title: Organizations and autonomy / Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah; title: From Chipko to Sati: the contemporary Indian women's movement / Radha Kumar; title: Feminists, women's movement, and the working class / Ilina Sen; title: Institutions, beliefs, ideologies: widow immolation in contemporary Rajasthan / Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid; title: Communities as political actors: the question of cultural rights / Veena Das; title: Thumri as feminine voice / Vidya Rao; title: Problems for a contemporary theory of gender / Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana; title: Thinking beyond gender in India / Ruth Vanita.