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Books on: "india women" OR (india AND women)

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Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India: Narratives of Gender and Sexuality

Book by Jyoti Puri; Routledge, 1999

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Gender Identity--India, Man-Woman Relationships--India, Sex Role--India, Women--India--Social Conditions

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...married life rather uncertain for women. Kakar suggests that as outsiders...Caplan, Class and Gender in India: Women and Their Organizations in...of the nature of marriage in India. 5. For instance, see Pramod...adjustment within contemporary India, Pramod Kumar and Sushma Trivedi...
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Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India

Book by Raka Ray; University of Minnesota Press, 1999

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Women In Politics--India, Women--Suffrage--India--History

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...the family would enable a woman to have and demand greater...although the minimum age for a woman to be legally married in India is 18, women are usually married before...drastically after marriage in India, and, moreover, India is...nonmarriage is low. 4 Throughout India women are expected to devote themselves...
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Women, Education, and Family Structure in India

Book by Carol Chapnick Mukhopadhyay, Susan Seymour; Westview Press, 1994

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Academic Achievement--India, Family--India, India--Social Conditions--1947-, Women--Education--India

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...marriage. Several CUSAT and IISc women I met were married and had...were gathered directly from India, with the assistance of numerous...consideration the proportion of women among all Indian college students...1984. Class and Gender in India: Women and Their Organizations in...Chitnis, Suma B. 1989. India. In International Handbook...
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Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India

Book by Eliza F. Kent; Oxford University Press, 2004

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Christian Converts From Hinduism--India, South--History, Protestant Converts--India, South--History, Protestant Women--India, South--History, Women, Tamil--Religious Life--India, South--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...nineteenth-century south India was peppered with intercaste...nature of kinship in south India, women are perceived as the carriers...rituals in Sri Lanka and south India showed that the vigilant policing...nineteenth-century south India; the surfaces of the body...
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Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India

Book by Laurie L. Patton; Oxford University Press, 2002

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Dowry--India--History, Hindu Women--India--History, Hinduism--Social Aspects, Women's Rights--Religious Aspects--Hinduism, Women--India--Social Conditions, Women--Religious Aspects--Hinduism

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...an earlier genre of writing on women in India, women were the objects of study and...who were men. The voices of the women themselves were muted, and they...such as Altekars The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization from Prehistoric...

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Stories Based on Realities: Breast Cancer in India

Journal article by Jayashree Thatte-Bhat; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003

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Breast cancer, India, Women, Writers

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...Realities: Breast Cancer in India by Jayashree Thatte-Bhat...quite a few waves among women readers in India. Women who had been affected by...Right." "Among all these women, did you meet any woman whose daughter couldnt get...with the other?" "In India, it has. In India, if...Neither I nor any of the women I was closely associated with, whether in India or in Canada, had ever...anything like what this woman was talking about. How...
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Capacity Building and Change: Women and Development in India

Journal article by Mangala Subramaniam; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003

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India, Literacy, Low income groups, Progress, Rural areas, Women

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Capacity Building and Change: Women and Development in India by Mangala Subramaniam Development as...at all levels and especially to let women set the pace of change (Subramaniam...and cooperative-based initiatives in India (Rose 1992; Narasimhan 1999). A...independently of the programme" (Government of India a, undated). The social location of sangha women and their customary lack of access to...
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A Limited Women's Empowerment: Politics, the State, and Development in Northwest India

Journal article by Sumi Madhok; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003

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Feminism, India, Politics, Women, Womens rights movement

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...during the training encouraging the women to express themselves and to relate...stereotypes of the "good" and the "bad" woman and the role of socialisation in corroborating...fundamental rights and the constitution of India; the vagaries of the legal system...short of extending credit to the village women who made possible the radical change...social practices that denied dignity to women. The sathins are instead regarded with...division bench of the Supreme Court of India in Smt Geeta, Jhuma, Nausar, Nandu...
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Reflections on Sonagachi: an Empowerment-based Hiv-preventive Intervention for Female Sex Workers in West Bengal, India

Journal article by Peter A. Newman; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2003

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Females, Human immunodeficiency virus--HIV, Intervention, Prostitution, West Bengal India

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...Through individual empowerment, women not only come to understand HIV and...Along the lines of Conscientization, a woman becomes more able to perceive her right...gatherings of sex workers from all over India to promote the struggle for legal rights...Paradoxically, sex work remains illegal in India; yet a workers collaborative credit...replicate the program elsewhere in India and Bangladesh, a credit union is...them with a better life, even the woman most well educated in HIV and its transmission...the chance to earn more money. Now women can borrow in such emergencies and...
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Field Note: Ahmedabad, India

Journal article by Caleb Johnston; Women's Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34, 2006

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Ahmedabad India, Artistic directors, Audiences, Behavior, Developing countries--LDCs, Drama, Forum Theater Co, Manisha, Nostalgia, Performing artists, Theater, Vidya

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Field Note: Ahmedabad, India by Caleb Johnston December 20, 2004...and the play closes with the young woman being beaten and set on fire by her husband...sexual advances of her employer, a young woman from the audience raises her hand and...this theatrical "fiction." The young woman stands on stage nervously, shy, but...as she demands an explanation of why women in the community have to experience sexual...

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Magazine Articles on: "india women" OR (india AND women)

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A Challenge for Ecofeminims: Gender, Greening, and Community Forestry in India

Magazine article by Bina Agarwal; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall 2001

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Environmental protection, Feminism, Forestry, India, Women

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...wounded planet needs the healing touch of women" and that "women have a special relationship with nature...Vandana Shiva has likewise argued, "woman and nature are intimately related, and...assumptions about the relationship between women and nature and about the inherent connections...the experience of community forestry in India and uses these experiences to further...
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Engendering Urban Environmental Management: a Study of Women Councilors in Burdwan, India

Magazine article by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Gopa Samanta, Pallabi Sil, Chhanda Karfa; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2006

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Burdwan India, Decision making, Environmental aspects, Environmental management, Gender identity, Policy making, Urban areas, Women

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...Management: a Study of Women Councilors in Burdwan, India by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt...generally true that throughout India women are burdened with the chores...forward. Just being a woman does not mean ones perceptions...men; middle class Indian women in many cases do not reveal...of West Bengal in eastern India(iii). The well-connected...them. Currently the 13 women Councilors represent 37...Council seats. Only one woman is from a lower caste and...is the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPI(M...
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A Challenge for Ecofeminism: Gender, Greening, and Community Forestry in India

Magazine article by Bina Agarwal; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall 2001

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India, International, Social life & customs, Traditions

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...wounded planet needs the healing touch of women" and that "women have a special relationship with nature...Vandana Shiva has likewise argued, "woman and nature are intimately related, and...assumptions about the relationship between women and nature and about the inherent connections...the experience of community forestry in India and uses these experiences to further...
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Older Destitute Women Struggling for Existence: a Case Study from India

Magazine article by Archana Kaushik; Women & Environments International Magazine, Fall/Winter 2010

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Older people, Poverty, Women

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Older Destitute Women Struggling for Existence: a Case Study from India by Archana Kaushik Shahina Begum, 65...community consisting of all men and women 18 years and older) at an open meeting...piece-meal approach currently used in India is doing nothing to assist poor older...Similarly, the case of destitute older women receiving OAP or 10 kilograms of food grain under Annapurna. An older woman without shelter cannot get much benefit...
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Women's Household Water Management in Mylai Balaji Nagar, Chennai, India

Magazine article by Prabha Khosla; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2010

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Bottled water, Canals, Councils, Evictions, Groundwater, Households, Water shortages, Water supply, Wetlands, Women

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...Prabha Khosla In the south of Chennai, India, lies Mylai Balaji Nagar, a resettlement...slums and informal settlements in urban India - a snapshot of how poor urban women...Kalki (a micro-credit system common in India), so that she could build the additional...Every time that the water arrives, the women of the 1 7 families draw lots to determine...line up their pots. On average each woman is able to fill 20 pots of 12 litres...

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Stitch in Time for Women of Rural India

Newspaper article by Lisa Rauschart; The Washington Times, April 17, 1999

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India

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...river. The baskets, the fish and the women fill the quilt with color, a whimsical...the countryside. "In these quilts, women find a wonderful opportunity for expressing...the pressures associated with being a woman in India predominate, defying even the dictates of the market. For the women who work on the pieces, life never will...
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India to Ban Gay Couples from Surrogacy Clinics; New Laws on [Pounds Sterling]1.5bn Industry 'To Stop Women Being Exploited'

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 25, 2011

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Gay couples--Laws, regulations and rules, Working women--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...homosexual couples from coming to India to enter into such deals...The babies were stuck in India for six months amid wrangling...outlawed in Britain but in India women receive about pounds sterling5...000. He said: "An Indian woman gets 10 years worth of salary...
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GENOCIDE OF THE DAUGHTERS; Ten Million Female Foetuses Have Been Illegally Aborted in India by Mothers Desperate to Bear a Son. What Will Become of This Nation of Ever Fewer Women?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 4, 2006

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Genocide, Women

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...Become of This Nation of Ever Fewer Women? Byline: ANNA SEBA MAY YOU be the...Sanskrit blessing given to a Hindu woman in India on her wedding day. And the minute...traditional chanting of mantras by the other women of the family, calling for the foetus...replaced by a younger, more fertile woman who will produce sons if they do not...Alarmingly, this fear has spread to Indian women in the UK who face the same patriarchal...increasing number are travelling to India for an abortion, as far fewer questions...
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Husband Is Arrested over Wife's River Death in India; WOMAN, 39, DIED AFTER AN APPARENT BRIDGE FALL IN 2004

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 11, 2011

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Accidental falls, Bridges, Bridges (Structures), Falls (Accidents), Murder

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...Is Arrested over Wifes River Death in India; WOMAN, 39, DIED AFTER AN APPARENT BRIDGE FALL...consistent with having fallen from a bridge in India on February 27, 2004. The 39-year...by the Himachal Pradesh state police in India, who at first believed she had fallen...
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We'll Build a Tea Plantation. on Anglesey; FORGET INDIA, THIS WOMAN IS MAKING A HOME BREW

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 26, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tea Plantation. on Anglesey; FORGET INDIA, THIS WOMAN IS MAKING A HOME BREW. Byline: ANDREW...postcard tea-growing landscapes of India and Sri Lanka. Next year Keith and...to be set out in plantations, as in India (below)

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Encyclopedia Articles on: "india women" OR (india AND women)

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Marriage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...instructive exceptions. For example, Nayar women of India would ritually marry men of a superior...Among the Dahomey of West Africa, one woman could marry another; the first woman...more women. In most societies men and women are valued for their different roles...form alliances through the exchange of women, and the social organization regulates...restrictive unions between a man and a woman; such partnerships typically have...and among certain hill tribes in India. People who enjoy only a marginal...
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Costume

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...pleated and starched white linen. Egyptian women first wore the kalasiris, a one-piece...of the barbaric invader. Both men and women wore a double tunic; the under tunic...be worn over the chemise by both men and women; a surcote (sleeveless and with wide...
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Roy, Rammohun

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...administrative career in the British East India Company, he retired (1815) and devoted...recognized as a strong unifying force in India, while removing from it the elements of idolatry, discrimination against women, and the caste system. Thus, he founded...English educational methods. He felt that India would have to absorb Western ideas to...
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Gypsies

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Iranian family and is closely related to the languages of NW India. Their blood groupings have been found to coincide with those...dancers, musicians, horse dealers, and auto mechanics. Gypsy women are famous as fortunetellers. It is believed that they came originally from NW India, which they left for Persia in the 1st millennium a.d...
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Harem

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...household. In the ancient Arab world women enjoyed a certain amount of freedom...of Islam, the veiling and seclusion of women into harems became more common. The most...harem often contained several hundred women, all subject to the control of the sultans mother and guarded by eunuchs. In India the harem is called a purdah or zenana...

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