Overview of Interrogating Women s Leadership and Empowerment Book

Looking at gender through multiple lenses, this volume seeks to understand what empowerment really means to women today. It examines the situation of women in and their contribution to, politics, business, education, social and economic development, the women's movement, health, law, insurgency and the arts.The volume analyses certain key issues of contemporary discourse including: ownership of one's body and freedom of choice. Redefinition of empowerment and leadership and how far we have achieved it Importance of equal access to education, employment and health Political participation and decision making and Dichotomy between marginalisation of women on grounds of caste, class and religion in a society with changing laws on women's rights. Table of Contents: Foreword: Karan SinghPreface: Omita GoyalIntroduction: Malavika KarlekarUnderstanding Leadership: Lessons from the Women's Movement Devaki JainRevisiting the Theme of Women's Empowerment': How Leadership Matters Padmini SwaminathanWomen Leaders in every Mohalla, every Village Renana JhabvalaRockets with Fire in Their Tails? Women Leaders in Kerala's Panchayats J DevikaLabouring Intellectuals: The Conceptual World of Dalit Women Gopal GuruCzarinas or Girl Fridays? Women in the Corporate Sector Pushpa SundarLeadership for Women's Equality and Empowerment in Higher Education Karuna ChananaAnatomy of a Change: Early Women Doctors Malavika KarlekarFrom Dynasty to Legitimacy: Women Leaders in Indian Politics Sudha PaiOther Histories: Gender and Politics in the Fiction of Mahasweta Devi Radha ChakravartyIn Her Own Write: Writing from a Dalit Feminist Uma ChakravartiCatalysing Craft: Women who Shaped the Way Ritu SethiLeadership in the Arts: Rukmini Devi Arundale Ashish Mohan KhokarRecasting Bodies and the Transformation of the Self: Women Performers in the Bombay Film Industry (1925 1947) Sarah Rahman NiaziAscribing Feminist Intent: The Invention of the Indian Woman Artist Deeptha AcharThe Alpha Songbirds: Independent and Vibrant Kumud Diwan JhaEmpowering Women through Education: The Story of Indraprastha School Aparna BasuGender and Governance: From Concern to Indicators Satish B. AgnihotriThe Movement for Change: Implementation of Sexual Assault Laws Kirti Singh aregivers Caretakers: Dealing with Impunity and Immunity at the Margins Sanjoy Hazarika

• • Book Type :

SocialSciences

• • Book Binding :

Paperback

• • Language :

English

• • Number of Pages :

• • ISBN - 10 :

9351500799

• • Interrogating Women s Leadership and Empowerment Published On :

28 Nov 2014

• • Resource:

Students and Professionals:Textbooks, SocialSciences

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