Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia

Perspectives on Entitlements and Violations

Asok Kumar Sarkar, Satyajit Das Gupta (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

253 Seiten

2024 | 2024 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-16-7537-9 (ISBN)

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This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women's empowerment. Drawing upon contributions from serving and retired academics with substantial experience of NGO-run women's care and justice activities, it seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise involving several hugely intractable entitlements and violations South Asian women have experienced in historical and contemporary times. The book aims to generate substantial intellectual resources for yet another stimulating churning of interest and enthusiasm among policy makers, academics, social activists, development functionaries, students and inclined laypersons concerned with women's studies in general and the multifaceted ordeal of women's empowerment in particular.

Asok Kumar Sarkar is Professor of Social Work in Visva-Bharati, India, and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development-Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace-Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co-Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of “Journal of Social Work and Social Development,” a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal, and served from 2010 to 2017. Satyajit Das Gupta is Director, Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Counselling (Affiliated to the Calcutta University), Legal Aid Services, West Bengal, and Member, Ethics Committee, KolGO Trg, a conglomerate of several regional and national medical institutions and establishments. He has been associated with the Calcutta University’s Women’s Studies Research Centre, Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal, and the Women’s Justice Initiative of the Human Rights Law Network, India. He also coordinated the Karachi-Calcutta-Dhaka Linkage Project on “Processes of Unprotected Work in South Asia for the International Institute of Social History,” Amsterdam. His publications include Mukher Kathay Itihas [History by Words of Mouth, Edited, 1997 & 2019] and Final Report on the DFLFLASWEB-DIHR Study Tour on Comparative Aspects of Public Interest Litigation in India and China (2012).

1 Introduction.- 2 Before NGOs: Women's Organizations in Colonial India.- 3 Politics of Women's Empowerment and Non-Governmental Organizations.- 4 NGO Activism and Women's Empowerment in India.- 5 Women’s Participation in Rural Local Governance of Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges.- 6 Reproductive Health of Women and Human Development in Nepal.- 7 Role of Microfinance in Empowering Woman Entrepreneurs in Rural Sri Lanka.- 8 Lives in Neglect, Deceit and Violence: Voices and Agencies of Trafficked Women.- 9 Multiplying Insecurity: Disempowerment of Women's Agency in the Logistics of Transnational Trafficking Networks of South Asia.- 10 Equalizing Gender Imbalance in a Globalized World.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	5 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 253 p. 5 illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	South Asian NGOs • South Asian Women and NGOs • Violence and South Asian Women • Women's Empowerment and South Asia • Women’s Empowerment and South Asia • Women's Studies and NGOs • Women’s Studies and NGOs
ISBN-10	981-16-7537-6 / 9811675376
ISBN-13	978-981-16-7537-9 / 9789811675379
Zustand	Neuware