| Description |
xi, 539 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Themes in politics series
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Themes in politics series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Colonialism and the evolution of masculinist forestry / Vandana Shiva -- Women, ecology and culture / Gabriele Dietrich -- The gender and environment debate: lessons from India / Bina Agarwal -- Structural adjustment, feminization of labour force and organizational strategies / Nandita Shah ... [et al.] -- Impact of technological change on industrial women workers / Rohini Hensman -- On women, equality and the constitution: through the looking glass of feminism / Ratna Kapur and Brenda Cossman -- Rights, bodies and the law: rethinking feminist politics of justice / Nivedita Menon -- Organizations and autonomy / Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah -- From Chipko to Sati: the contemporary Indian women's movement / Radha Kumar -- Feminists, women's movement, and the working class / Ilina Sen -- Institutions, beliefs, ideologies: widow immolation in contemporary Rajasthan / Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid -- Communities as political actors: the question of cultural rights / Veena Das -- Thumri as feminine voice / Vidya Rao -- Problems for a contemporary theory of gender / Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana -- Thinking beyond gender in India / Ruth Vanita. |
| Subject |
Human rights -- India.
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Human rights. |
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India. |
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Women's rights -- India.
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Women's rights. |
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Women -- Political activity -- India.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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India -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
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Human rights. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Menon, Nivedita.
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| ISBN |
0195658930 |
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