Toward Empowerment: Women And Movement Politics In India
By Leslie J Calman.
Description
Religious and social moves have long relegated women in India to low status, and only recently has public pressure grown strong enough to challenge their unequal treatment. This volume analyzes the emergence and growing popularity of Indian women's groups as well as the reasons behind their formation and evolution. Although non-party political, the significance of the movement for Indian politics is examined, together with the wider implications of global movement politics. Analyzing women's groups as only one sector of a vast complex of new grass-roots, non-party political moveme...
ISBN(s)
0813316952, 9780813316956
