Conditioning
and Empowerment of Women : A Multidimensional Approach/edited by Asha Mukherjee
and Kumkum Bhattacharya. New Delhi, Gyan Pub.,
2003, 242 p., tables, $39. ISBN 81-212-0827-0.
Conditioning
and Empowerment of Women : A Multidimensional Approach/edited by Asha Mukherjee
and Kumkum Bhattacharya. New Delhi, Gyan Pub.,
2003, 242 p., tables, $39. ISBN 81-212-0827-0.
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Women’s capabilities and social justice. 2. Ecosociology of man-woman relation: towards risking a comprehensive paradigm. 3. Women’s question: the three distinct viewpoints. 4. Rabindranath and gender politics. 5. Revolutions: parampara: women. 6. Society, women in Bengal and Brahmo Samaj: historicity and present relevance. 7. Looking beyond the individual: interaction of structural factors and agency in the empowerment of women. 8. Gender issues in the perspective of development. 9. A micro-study of women and agency in Chhattisgarh region in Madhya Pradesh. 10. Women in environmental management. 11. Women empowerment and status in joint forest management. 12. Empowerment of women through Panchayati Raj Institution. 13. I find my voice—a personal narrative. Index.
"Conditioning and Empowerment of Women: A Multidimensional Approach, is an edited volume analysing the status of women in India and the alternative modes of their empowerment. The issue of empowerment is viewed from different dimensions. It deals equally with the theoretical issues relating to empowerment as well as issues involved in practice. It contains articles by well-known feminists like Martha Nussbaum, Bandana Purkayastha, Maitreyi Choudhury, Sutapa Bhattacharya and others.
"While the papers by Prof. Martha Nussbaum "Women’s Capabilities and Social Justice", Prof. Bandana Purkayastha "Rules, Roles and Realities: Structural Factors and Agency in Empowerment of Women", Prof. Aparajita Mukherjee " Women’s Question: The Three Distinct Viewpoints", Prof. Mrinal Kanti Dasgupta "Ecosociology of Man-Women Relations: Towards Risking a Comprehensive Paradigm’ deal mainly with the theoretical side of the issues the others are more related with the means and the goal of empowerment in actual life of Indian women such as environment management, Panchayat institution and the over all change in thinking of the people. The volume aims to argue that the issue of empowering the women has to be looked upon as a multidimensional issue rather than from one particular dimension." (jacket)