Governments of famine-prone countries employ certain socio-economic indicators, with the household as the unit of enumeration, in order to monitor famines with a view to alleviating their impact...
Review of Women's Studies
India in the recent past has witnessed an upsurge in research on various aspects of women's existence, with the early focus on the social facets of their status giving way of analyses of women's...
ple Survey together give us a time series on the level and structure of employment. Frequent changes in definitions and concepts have led to problems of comparability across censuses and NSS rounds...
Intervention and Poverty by V M Gumaste, R M Honavar, Kala Rangachari and K Seetharam; Institute for Financial Management and Research, Madras, THIS book analyses the anti-poverty programmes of the...
The main aim of promoting women's co-operatives in the Operation Flood programme is the provision of employ- menu income and increased status for rural women. On the basis of a field study among the...
Accounts in nationalist literature of the militant struggles of women tobacco workers in Guntur in 1938 led the writer to enquire into the social origins of these women. The trail led to a dramatic...
This paper analyses the role of 'Marakatthe', the fisherwoman financier in the fishing communities of coastal Andhra, her institutionalised economic and social relationships and the implications of...
This paper seeks to understand the overall directions of the changes in the position of women as workers in the Indian economy and to place these changes in the context of the overall changes in the...
Using 1981 Census data, this paper undertakes a socio-geographic analysis of female literacy both for the non- scheduled and scheduled caste segments of the population in class I cities of India...
Pandita Ramabai's Contribution to Women's Cause Meera Kosambi Pandita Ramabai Saraswati's status as a solitary women leader of the movement for women's emancipation in nineteenth century Maharashtra...
Guy Poitevin This paper presents an analytical account of the outcome of discussions held as an exercise of co-operative self-learning by groups of voluntary female health animators (HAs) of an act...
The Samband Edipa Ceremony among Coorgs in South India Veena Poonacha The study of kinship and marriage in India so far has been within the conceptual framework of the Vedic Aryan tradition,...
Earning and Managing in an Indonesian City Hanna Papanek Laurel Schwede Gender differences are key factors in the allocational process of all societies, at all levels of social organisation...
Women, like other subordinate groups in society are among the muted or even silent voices of history. They have been excluded both as actors and as authors from featuring in history as they should...
A Hindu monastic order has the structure of a genealogical tree. This extremely loose structure allows a considerable freedom to spiritual masters and it explains to some extent how female ascetics...
