The pattern of women's lives and their orientation to social reality are significantly shaped by the models of womanly conduct set out in stories, legends and songs preserved from the past. The epic...
Review of Women's Studies
What are the mechanisms through which women acquire the cultural ideas and values which shape their images of themselves and inform the visions they have of the future? What are the processes by...
The prevailing paradigm in Women's Studies is predominantly a compensatory model: women as a disadvantaged group should be given greater facilities, benefits, etc. The seeds of a change in this...
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...
Sonal Shukla The works of Govardhanram Tripathi had a significant impact on the expanding middle class nineteenth and early twentieth century Gujarat. His revivalist ideas and his protests against...
Seeking to understand the manifest in relation to the implicit and the unstated
Padmini Swaminathan This paper examines the way in which the state contributes to women's subordination. The review of the nature of policies affecting various aspects of women's lives lays bare the...
Male out-migration from the rural poor over extended periods greatly increases women's work burdens and compounds their difficulties of basic survival. The additional source of income through...
Leela Gulati Based on a study of thirty-seven households from villages on the outskirts of Trivandrum from which migrant workers have gone to the Middle East, this paper assesses the socio-economic...
Hill Regions of North-West India J P Bhati D V Singh While the conditions of women in the plains have been examined by scholars, the hilly, remote backward areas have not received the same attention...
of Demand System in Bangladesh Rahauma Ahmed This study of muslims and christians in a Bangladesh village carried out in 1983-84 has the principal aim of obtaining an understanding of recent changes...
Women's Involvement in Three States K Saradamoni The underlying assumption in many studies which examine the situation of agricultural labour is that the male worker is the main breadwinner and the...
Continuity and Change Tone Bleie The Oraons living in scattered settlements in the westernmost districts of Bangladesh are one of the largest aboriginal groups in the region. In the last century...
BULGARIA How Far Can the Centralised Model be Reformed? Ramnath Narayanswamy A PRELIMINARY investigation of centrally-planned economies reveals an economic system characterised by varying degrees of...
Social Demography of Excess Female Mortality in India New Directions Alice W Clark Discussions of sex differentials in mortality in South Asia have suffered from a lack of theoretical depth. On what...
