The first-ever policy documented on older persons framed by the ministry of social justice and empowerment does not pay adequate attention to gender issues. It has an urban bias. The section on...
Review of Women's Studies
Patriarchal control over women's sexuality and reproduction affects their well-being and their life histories throughout their lives. After menopause, this control becomes even tighter affecting...
While ageing of the population represents demographic achievements in lowering birth and death rates, it also poses challenges in care of the elderly. The experience of Kerala is instructive for the...
An examination of literary representations of women of age in stories from different social class, culture, economic and religious backgrounds in stories written by women suggest a link - that gender...
The Indian population has been ageing over the years, the proportion of older people has been growing. But this increase in life expectancy will not be an unqualified success until adequate provision...
Domestic violence, more often than not, is rooted in patriarchal notions of ownership over women's bodies sexuality, labour reproductive rights, mobility and levels of autonomy. The phenomenon of...
By employing a system of production using contractors and home-based workers, the beedi industry is able to gain tremendous profit with little inputs in infrastructure and comprehensive benefits to...
While liberalisation may have increased employment, it has worsened the quality of employment, especially for women. The article studies macro-level data to analyse employment of men and women. Data...
Commentators on Tamil Nadu's rapid fertility decline during the eighties often cite female autonomy and 'agency' as important contributing factors. This paper examines the extent of female autonomy...
Case Study of a Play on Female Infanticide/Foeticide A Mangai The process of evolving 'Pacha Mannu,' a play on female infanticide produced by a women's theatre group in Tamil Nadu and its showings...
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Struggles to Change Gender Relations Dev Nathan Govind Kelkar Yu Xiaogang This paper examines the processes which led to the change in gender relations and the...
A Reading of Ashapurna Debi's Pratham Pratisruti Indira Chowdhury How did women writing in the decades that followed the process of social reorganisation of the 1950s took back at their past? How...
The question of the Hindu goddess's feminism is embedded within the larger question of the instrumentality of religion in the post-colonial nation both for a 'secular' politics and for women's...
in the Indian Diaspora Commemorating Indian Arrival in Trinidad Kalpana Kannabiran Literature suggests that Indian women came to Trinidad as already independent women who made a conscious decision...
