The Changing Status Of Women In West Bengal 1970 2000

Author : Jasodhara Bagchi,Sarmistha Dutta Gupta
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761932429

Get Book

The Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000 by Jasodhara Bagchi,Sarmistha Dutta Gupta Pdf

This important and comprehensive volume vividly depicts the current status of women and girls in West Bengal. The analysis has been conducted in the framework of the socio-economic and politico-cultural ambience that has characterized the state in recent decades. The contributors highlight both areas of strength and vulnerability and clearly demonstrate that the status of women cannot be conceived as monolithic or static--it has many facets and is in a state of constant flux. The analysis of macro data is supported by revealing micro studies based on field surveys and an examination of cultural trends.

Author : Sanghamitra Sen Chaudhuri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Women
ISBN : UOM:39015038528900

Get Book

Women and Politics by Sanghamitra Sen Chaudhuri Pdf

This Study, In The Light Of West Bengal Experience Stresses That Women Are Still Second Class Citizen In Spite Of The Equal Rights Conferred On Them.

Author : Kasturi Bhadra Ray
Publisher : Smriti Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

Status Of Women Migrants by Kasturi Bhadra Ray Pdf

The Partition of India resulted in a massive exodus of men, women and children from both East and West Pakistan to India in 1947.Even after the emergence of East Pakistan as Bangladesh, an independent democratic nation in 1971, the flow of migrants to the eastern states of India, namely West Bengal, Orissa, Assam and Tripura was not stemmed. The women among them, not only came along with their families, but also singly. Very often forced to accept the burden of a new refugee life, they began their struggle for survival and existence, fraught more often than not, with difficulty and adverse circumstances .The challenge sometimes became so acute, that there was a metamorphic change in their behaviour, thinking and attitude. The status of the women migrants under such circumstances is uncertain and precarious. This book, the outcome of the doctoral thesis at Jadavpur University, Kolkata is an attempt to present a picture of the status of women migrants from Bangladesh who have settled in the two states of West Bengal and Orissa after 1971, specifically, between 1971-2001.The position these women in the wider fabric of India society and their status at home and workplace have been studied, based on a primary survey in selected areas of West Bengal and Orissa, namely Nadia and Murshidabad in West Bengal and Kendrapara in Orissa where there are large settlements of migrants from Bangladesh. It is sincerely hoped that this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in the fields of economics, demography and women studies.

Author : Dia da Costa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317810087

Get Book

Development Dramas by Dia da Costa Pdf

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Manujendra Kundu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192871510

Get Book

Women Performers in Bengal and Bangladesh by Manujendra Kundu Pdf

Covering nearly 225 years, this volume tries to capture a broad spectrum of the situation of women performers from Gerasim Lebedeff's time (1795), who are considered to be the first performers in modern Bengali theatre, to today's time. The moot question is whether the role of women as performers evolved down the centuries. Whether this question will lead us to their subjugation to their male counterparts, producers, and directors has been explored here to give readers an understanding of when, where, by whom the politics began, and, by tracing the footprints, we have tried to understand if the politics has changed, or remains unchanged, or metamorphosed with regard to the woman's question in the performance discourse. We have explored, in this regard, how her body, mind, and sexuality interacted with and negotiated the phallocentric hierarchy. The essays included are on (i) Baiji/Tawaif culture in eastern and western Bengal; (ii) prostitute/'fallen' women/ patita, beshya performers; (iii) IPTA and the Naxalbari movement; (iv) group and commercial/professional theatre of Kolkata; (v) women's position in the theatre of Bangladesh; (vi) Cabaret (with an interview with Miss Shefali) (vii) Jatra; (viii) Baul tradition. (ix) Besides, there are chapters on English, Anglo-Indian, Jew, Nachni performers and the illustrious dancer Amala Shankar, and film-music-dance in general.

Author : Srimati Basu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520282445

Get Book

The Trouble with Marriage by Srimati Basu Pdf

"The Trouble with Marriage is part of a new global feminist jurisprudence around marriage and violence that looks to law as strategy rather than solution. In this ethnography of family courts and other crime and mediation settings in India, Srimati Basu reevaluates Indian feminist theories of marriage, gender violence, and the role of the state. Basu argues that alternative dispute resolutions, originally designed to empower women in a less adversarial legal environment, have created new subjectivities but have also reinforced oppressive socioeconomic norms that leave women no better off, individually or collectively. This volume examines the extent to which feminist visions of divorce, rape, and domestic violence law in India empower women and finds, paradoxically, that these alternative ideas actually reinforce women's economic and social inequality"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jayasri Ghosh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political participation
ISBN : UVA:X004563844

Get Book

Political Participation of Women in West Bengal by Jayasri Ghosh Pdf

Author : Dr. Ravi S. Dalawai
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365136337

Get Book

ÒWomen Empowerment and ModernityÓ by Dr. Ravi S. Dalawai Pdf

Author : Arundhati Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443864893

Get Book

Sexual Harassment in the Indian Bureaucracy by Arundhati Bhattacharyya Pdf

The Indian bureaucracy provides the framework that ensures the successful running of a democratic country, continuing the heritage of the Indian Civil Service during British colonial rule. However, patriarchy has continued to serve as the norm in these institutions, with the sexual harassment of bureaucrats representing a particular challenge. Sexual harassment in the workplace is a hard reality, but systematic studies of this phenomenon are few and far between. In this regard, bureaucracy is an area which needs particular academic analysis. This book addresses this research gap and studies the relevance of socio-economic factors leading to sexual harassment in the Indian bureaucracy in Kolkata, Delhi and Bengaluru. It also explores the levels and forms of this harassment, the gender and position of the harasser, and the level of filing complaints by the victims. Moreover, the reasons behind the silence of the victims regarding filing complaints are also analysed. As such, it is a revealing and illuminating analysis of the hitherto unexplored area of the dynamics of one facet of gender relationships in the Indian bureaucracy. The book will be useful to scholars in the fields of anthropology, law, sociology, economics, social work, political science, gender studies, and development studies, as well as other social sciences.

Author : Srila Roy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023517

Get Book

Changing the Subject by Srila Roy Pdf

In Changing the Subject Srila Roy maps the rapidly transforming terrain of gender and sexual politics in India under the conditions of global neoliberalism. The consequences of India’s liberalization were paradoxical: the influx of global funds for social development and NGOs signaled the co-optation and depoliticization of struggles for women’s rights, even as they amplified the visibility and vitalization of queer activism. Roy reveals the specificity of activist and NGO work around issues of gender and sexuality through a decade-long ethnography of two West Bengal organizations, one working on lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues and the other on rural women’s empowerment. Tracing changes in feminist governmentality that were entangled in transnational neoliberalism, Roy shows how historical and highly local feminist currents shaped contemporary queer and nonqueer neoliberal feminisms. The interplay between historic techniques of activist governance and queer feminist governmentality’s focus on changing the self offers a new way of knowing feminism—both as always already co-opted and as a transformative force in the world.

Author : Kunal Chakrabarti,Shubhra Chakrabarti
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810880245

Get Book

Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis by Kunal Chakrabarti,Shubhra Chakrabarti Pdf

The Bengali (Bangla) speaking people are located in the northeastern part of South Asia, particularly in Bangladesh and two states of India – West Bengal and Tripura. There are almost 246 million Bengalis at present, which makes them the fifth largest speech community in the world. Despite political and social divisions, they share a common literary and musical culture and several habits of daily existence which impart to them a distinct identity. The Bengalis are known for their political consciousness and cultural accomplishments The Historical Dictionary of the Bengalis provides an overview of the Bengalis across the world from the earliest Chalcolithic cultures to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 750 cross-referenced dictionary entries on politicians, educators and entrepreneurs, leaders of religious and secular institutions, writers, painters, actors and other cultural figures, and more generally, on the economy, education, political parties, religions, women and minorities, literature, art and architecture, music, cinema and other major sectors. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Bengalis.

Author : Meredith Borthwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608033294

Get Book

The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905 by Meredith Borthwick Pdf

Author : Ambalika Guha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668408

Get Book

Colonial Modernities by Ambalika Guha Pdf

The subject of medicalisation of childbirth in colonial India has so far been identified with three major themes: the attempt to reform or ‘sanitise’ the site of birthing practices, establishing lying-in hospitals and replacing traditional birth attendants with trained midwives and qualified female doctors. This book, part of the series The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia, looks at the interactions between childbirth and midwifery practices and colonial modernities. Taking eastern India as a case study and related research from other areas, with hard empirical data from local government bodies, municipal corporations and district boards, it goes beyond the conventional narrative to show how the late nineteenth-century initiatives to reform birthing practices were essentially a modernist response of the western-educated colonised middle class to the colonial critique of Indian sociocultural codes. It provides a perceptive historical analysis of how institutionalisation of midwifery was shaped by the debates on the women’s question, nationalism and colonial public health policies, all intersecting in the interwar years. The study traces the beginning of medicalisation of childbirth, the professionalisation of obstetrics, the agency of male doctors, inclusion of midwifery as an academic subject in medical colleges and consequences of maternal care and infant welfare. This book will greatly interest scholars and researchers in history, social medicine, public policy, gender studies and South Asian studies.

Author : Sukla Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429944390

Get Book

Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India by Sukla Chatterjee Pdf

In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information between the colonizers and their subjects. This book explores the idea of gazing through literature in Colonial India. Based on literary and historical analysis, it focuses on four different genres of literary writing where nineteenth-century Bengali women writers look back at the British colonizers. In the process, the European culture becomes a static point of reference, and the chapters in the book show the ideological, social, cultural, political, and deeper, emotional interactions between the colonized and the colonizer. The book also addresses the lack of sufficient primary sources authored by Bengali women on their European counterparts by anthologizing different available genres. Taking into account literary narratives from the colonized and the less represented side of the divide, such as a travelogue, fantasy fiction, missionary text and journal articles, the book represents the varying opinions and perspectives vis-à-vis the European women. Using an interdisciplinary approach charting the fields of Indology, colonial studies, sociology, literature/literary historiography, South-Asian feminism, and cultural studies, this book makes an important contribution to the field of South Asian Studies, studies of empire, and to Indian women’s literary history.

Author : Poulami Roychowdhury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190881917

Get Book

Capable Women, Incapable States by Poulami Roychowdhury Pdf

In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel continue to be biased against women and overburdened. In Capable Women, Incapable States, Poulami Roychowdhury asks how women claim rights within these conditions. Through long term ethnography, she provides an in-depth lens on rights negotiations in the world's largest democracy, detailing their social and political effects. Roychowdhury finds that women interact with the law not by following legal procedure or abiding by the rules, but by deploying collective threats and doing the work of the state themselves. And they behave this way because law enforcement personnel do not protect women from harm but do allow women to take the law into their own hands.These negotiations do not enhance legal enforcement. Instead, they create a space where capable women can extract concessions outside the law, all while shouldering a new burden of labor and risk. A unique theory of gender inequality and governance, Capable Women, Incapable States forces us to rethink the effects of rights activism across large parts of the world where political mobilization confronts negligent criminal justice systems.