[PDF] Woman In India eBook

Author : Sharada Rath
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,22 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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The Present Book Is A Compilation Of Selected Essays Focussing Attention On The Women S Search For Self-Identity And Their Struggle For Survival With Dignity, Development And Empowerment. It Deals With The Changing Identity Of Women In Social, Political And Economic Arena In Pre-Independence As Well As Post-Independence India. This Book Deals With The Problems Confronting Women From A Global Perspective As Well As From The Indian Angle Of Vision. The Main Issues Discussed Here Are Problems Facing Rural And Urban Women, Women Workers, Social Legislation Safeguarding The Interests Of Women, Their Rights, The Process Of Their Socialisation And Political Participation, Their Emancipation From Tradition-Bound Subordinate Status, And Above All Their Multi-Dimensional Development And Empowerment. The Role Played By Women In Freedom As Well As Socio-Cultural Movement In India And Abroad Has Been Dealt In Their Appropriate Context. Issue-Related And Area-Wise Studies Constitute The Chief Attraction Of The Present Work.

Author : Padma Desai
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262019973

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The brave and moving memoir of a woman's journey of transformation: from a sheltered Indian upbringing to success and academic eminence in America. Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University, where the first heady taste of freedom in the big city led to tragic consequences—seduction by a fellow student whom she was then compelled to marry. In a failed attempt to end this disastrous first marriage, she converted to Christianity. A scholarship to America in 1955 launched her on her long journey to liberation from the burdens and constraints of her life in India. With a growing self-awareness and transformation at many levels, she made a new life for herself, met and married the celebrated economist Jagdish Bhagwati, became a mother, and rose to academic eminence at Harvard and Columbia. How did she navigate the tumultuous road to assimilation in American society and culture? And what did she retain of her Indian upbringing in the process? This brave and moving memoir—written with a novelist's skill at evoking personalities, places, and atmosphere, and a scholar's insights into culture and society, community, and family—tells a compelling and thought-provoking human story that will resonate with readers everywhere.

Author : Susie J. Tharu
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 41,92 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558610279

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Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Among the diverse selections are a rare early essay by an untouchable woman; an account by the first feminist historian; and a selection from the first novel written in English by an Indian woman.

Author : Rajashi Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319688162

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This book provides intriguing insights into the development of highly qualified women leaders in diverse Indian contexts and their role at national and organizational levels. While India has made enormous economic strides in the past few decades, gender inequality and underutilization of female talent remain deeply rooted and widely spread in many parts of Indian society. This book addresses an urgent need to stop treating Indian women as under-developed human capital and begin realizing their potential as leaders of quality work. This book will fill the gap of research on international leadership for students, academics, and multinational organizations.

Author : Otto Rothfield
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"Women of India" by Otto Rothfield is a book about Indian women, their social life, and customs. Excerpt: "Many generations have passed and other races—Hunas and Gujjars and Mongols—have invaded India. And asceticism has squeezed the people in[6] its dry hand, and there has been war and bigotry and pestilence. Yet even now the teachings are not quite forgotten. Many a one there still is among the women of India, of whom it can with truth be said: "She is even as a golden lotus."

Author : Prem Misir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811051666

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This book focuses on subjugated indentured Indian women, who are constantly faced with race, gender, caste, and class oppression and inequality on overseas European-owned plantations, but who are also armed with latent links to the women’s abolition movements in the homeland. Also examining their post-indenture life, it employs a paradigm of male-dominated Indian women in India at the margins of an enduringly patriarchal society, a persisting backdrop to the huge 19th century post-slavery movement of the agricultural indentured workforce drawn largely from India. This book depicts the antithetical and contradictory explanations for the indentured Indian women’s cries, degradation and dehumanization and how the politics of change and control impacted their social organization and its legacy. The book owes its origins to the 2017 centennial commemorative event celebrating 100 years of the abolition of the indenture system of Indian labor that victimized and dehumanized Indians from 1834 through 1917.

Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 20,73 MB
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520389425

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Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, this book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and remaining unmarried is often an unintended consequence of other pressing life priorities. Arguing that never-married women are able to illuminate their society's broader social-cultural values, Lamb offers a new and startling look at prevailing systems in India today. "This pathbreaking book offers a vital analysis of the rising but unrecognized category of single women in a marriage-minded society such as India. Through beautifully rendered and diverse stories, Sarah Lamb challenges conventional wisdom." -MARCIA C. INHORN, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University "For fans of Lamb's evocative narratives on Bengali widows, her new book provides another rich look at the negative space of marriage: the rare demographic of single women in Bengal across class and caste." -SRIMATI BASU, author of The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India "This lively ethnographic account makes several key contributions to feminist anthropological appraisals of marriage as an institution. Lamb renders a compelling, detailed, and sensitive portrait of compulsory heterosexuality and patriliny as seen from the margins." -LUCINDA RAMBERG, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University.

Author : Sita Anantha Raman
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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Looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Integrates women's issues, roles, and achievements into the general study of the times, providing a clear presentation of the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic realities that have helped shape the identity of Indian women. With a focus on gender and female sexuality in terms of representations in male texts of the premodern era; their later use by men and women for contemporary social and political purposes; women's narratives in their social contexts; and the issues of female agency and objectification, addresses women's subordinate nature in India, but also their active resistance, avenues for self-expression, negotiations with patriarchy, and support of oppressive traditions.

Author : Alfred De Souza
Publisher : Delhi : Manohar Book Service
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Women
ISBN :

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Anthology of essays on the role of women in social change in India - includes discrimination, social mobility, employment and family life, women's rights, religion, the ageing women, emigrants to the UK, etc. Bibliography pp. 253 to 258, references and statistical tables.