Dynamics of Gender Planning and Population : Issues and Challenges/edited by K.B. Datta. New Delhi, Akansha Pub., 2002, xxviii, 247 p., tables, $33. ISBN 81-87606-29-0.

Contents: Introduction. 1. Practical and strategic gender needs. 2. Gender planning strategies and training. 3. Approaches to gender issues. 4. A fresh look at sex composition in India. 5. Sex ratio imbalance. 6. Effects of parental divorce on girl child. 7. Abortion issues and feminism: a case of Poland. 8. Social policy and feminist research. 9. Gender policies and programmes functions. 10. Gender roles in family and the household. 11. Gender planning: an institution. 12. Gender planning: an emancipation approach. Bibliography. Index.

"The rapid phenomenal changes in conditions of women is a global concern. Sex-imbalance, increasing number of widows, complex working condition, socio-psychological and economic exploitation of females, sexual abuse, and discrimination on sexground etc. has reached the menacing dimensions.

"Though influenced by feminist movements in the west some reformist ideologies in the east and other parts of the globe have made presence, it is the high time to reconsider and devise the gender planning.

"The present book is intended to the very aim, encompassing well researched literature on the theme. Policy planners, women activists, NGOs and academic in the field will this book most useful" (jacket)

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