Women Emancipation : Focus North East India
Contents: 1. Women emancipation: a policy perspective/Asok Kumar Ray. 2. Voluntary action and women\'s emancipation/Tapan Kumar Chattopadhyay. 3. Whose voice? Whose concern? Politics of representing women/Indrani Choudhury. 4. Female emancipation in the context of North East India/Gouri Bhattachariyya. 5. The gender concerns in North East India and the relevance of social movements/Saswati Biswas. 6. Career for women in North East India : an overview/Surojit Sengupta. 7. Crime against woman: a problem of female emancipation/Umesh Ch. Saharia and Deepali Bhattacharjee. 8. Emancipation of women and sustainable social development/Saifun Nessa. 9. Problems of single women : a comparative analysis/Lutfun Rsaul Saikia. 10. Gender issues and development in North Eastern Region of India/P.C. Dutta and B.C. Pradhan. 11. Marriage, motherhood and career salience: young women in contemporary society of Assam/Rituparna Bhattachariyya Sharma. 12. Empowerment, education social development--women of Asom/Ritimoni Bordoloi. 13. Political empowerment of women in Assam/Pranay Jyoti Goswami. 14. A situational analysis of status of girls in Assam and other north eastern states/Bandana Bhuyan. 15. Gender gap and state of women in north east: the myth of equality/Susmita Das. 16. Women emancipation through SHG\'s: the case of Bodoland/Sujata Bhadra. 17. Women in the emerging urban labour market: a study on North-East India/Shyamalendu Chatterjee. 18. Women emancipation and development N.E. Perspective/Amalesh Banerjee. 19. Process of empowerment of women: a comparative study of Tripura and Meghalaya/Bhola Nath Ghosh and Utpal Kumar De. 20. Empowerment of women through academic leadership/Daisy Borah Talukdar. 21. Education for all: special reference to Sikkim elementary education for women/Rama Basu. 22. Status of women: focus Mizoram trends and perspectives/Lalhriatpuii. 23. Women emancipation: a way for removing gender discrimination/Th. Binarani Devi. 24. SHGs and socio economic emancipation of women in Manipur/L. Seityabati Devi. Index.
"This book raises the conceptual issues of women emancipation vis-a-vis women empowerment focusing on the women of the Northeast India. There is epistemic difference between the two concepts and therefore a distinction is made between the two. Empowerment in this book is however seen mainly as a trajectory for women\'s emancipation. The approach of the book is empirical with a realistic conceptual base.
This book highlights the roles of the state, civil society, community based organizations and the women agencies towards the wider cause of emancipation of women in the northeastern region and reflects upon the different initiatives towards the goal of emancipation of the women of the northeast.
Some of the articles in this book give useful recommendations that might be of strategic significance for the emancipation of the poor and the disadvantaged women in Northeast India.
This book is an important addition to the literature on women studies in this region and has great use value to the academic community, social activists, women agencies, policy makers and to development administrators." (jacket)
