This paper is based on a participatory research study that sought to explore the dynamics of community-based responses to domestic violence across five sites in India. The study was intended to...
Review of Women's Studies
Empowerment does not necessarily take place when incomes are generated or when livelihoods are enhanced or for that matter when groups are formed. Social capital empowers people undoubtedly. However...
The politics of gender and feminist research have outlined the deprivations and unequal entitlements in the lives of women. This frame has also produced the view that understanding women's lives is...
'Mata Hidimba' is an exemplary feminist play written by a male playwright that resurrects the image of motherhood from the Mahabharata. Focusing on Hidimba, Bhima's wife largely invisible in the...
Traditional community/village level dispute resolution systems still coexist with formal processes of justice and administration. The `shalishi' is one such method of arbitration in West Bengal that...
Gender relations in some adivasi (tribal) societies are relatively more egalitarian than among other communities but enormous changes are now taking place in their resource base and livelihoods. How...
The experiences recounted in this essay of Asian Indian women on an H-1B or H 4 visa highlight the deepening contradiction between economic restructuring and the emancipatory potential it offers...
Notions and practices of masculinity are often reconfigured in the wake of rapid economic and socio-political transformation. This paper explores this aspect in a south Indian village across two...
Transferring irrigation management to water users' associations is considered essential for improving the canal management. Those, particularly NGOs committed to gender priority would like women to...
This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyse the impact of information and the epistemic reliability attached to this information, on the investment choices made by households when...
This paper, through a study conducted in a village in Tamil Nadu, analyses the labour-use patterns and determinants of labour absorption in a mixed farming system. It looks at the inter-relationship...
The National Forest Policy and legislation on joint forest management(JFM) in some states are influenced by two theoretical perspectives: one, a women and environment development (WED) perspective,...
Pre-adolescent girls are seldom the focus of policies or research. Yet this is the stage when the girls' concepts of womanhood begin to get constructed and they begin to be treated as women-in-the-...
The politics of literacy and education has thus far remained a marginal concern for the women's movement in India with little effort made to address power issues that form part of the education...
Despite its reiterations on equality, fundamental rights and quality education for all, the emphasis of the National Curriculum Framework on Indian tradition and the collapsing of value education and...
