Download or read book Women of Assam written by Ellen Elizabeth Vickland and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communities of Women in Assam written by Nandana Dutta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women’s experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It explores the varying roles played by such communities in the formation of society, the emergence of a women’s public sphere and the representation of these communities in culture. The essays in the volume study a host of women’s communities including the Mahila Samiti, Jain women’s organisations, Lekhika Sanstha, lesbian communities, religious gatherings, scientific and environmental groups, women’s collaborations through cookbooks, as well as nebulous communities of victims of persecution. They examine how women’s communities are both empowering and transformational but may paradoxically also be regressive and static. Lucid, analytical, and rich with case studies, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political science, history and cultural studies, particularly those interested in Northeast India.
Download or read book Women of Assam written by Renu Debi and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar papers.
Download or read book Status of Women in Assam written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a Seminar on "Status of Women in Non-Tribal Societies of Assam", sponsored jointly by the North-Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong, of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, and the Dibrugarh University, and held in the Dept. of History, Dibrugarh University, Shillong, on 4-5 October 1988.
Download or read book Communities of Women in Assam written by Nandana Dutta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women’s experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It explores the varying roles played by such communities in the formation of society, the emergence of a women’s public sphere and the representation of these communities in culture. The essays in the volume study a host of women’s communities including the Mahila Samiti, Jain women’s organisations, Lekhika Sanstha, lesbian communities, religious gatherings, scientific and environmental groups, women’s collaborations through cookbooks, as well as nebulous communities of victims of persecution. They examine how women’s communities are both empowering and transformational but may paradoxically also be regressive and static. Lucid, analytical, and rich with case studies, this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of gender studies, sociology, political science, history and cultural studies, particularly those interested in Northeast India.
Download or read book Assamese Women in Indian Independence Movement written by Guptajit Pathak and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Single Women in Assamese Hindu Society written by Jeuti Barooah and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART ONE: GENERAL 1. INTRODUCTION 2. ASSAMESE SOCIETY AND WOMEN: ANOUTUNE 3. GUWAHATI: THE SETTING PART TWO: PROFILES OF THE SINGLE WOMEN 4. SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF THE SINGLE WOMEN 5. SINGLE STATUS THROUGH WIDOWHOOD 6. SINGLE STATUS THROUGH BROKEN MARRIAGE 7. THE UNMARRIED AS SINGLE WOMEN PART THREE: SOCIAL HORIZON OF THE SINGLE WOMEN 8. UVING ARRANGEMENTS 9. THE WORK SITUATION 10. SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS 11. SINGLE WOMEN AND LEGAL PROVISIONS 12. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS Appendices Glossary References Index Maps and Figures
Download or read book Tribal Women of Assam written by Madhushree Das and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gendered Publics written by Hemjyoti Medhi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women’s association, the Assam Mahila Samiti which led one of the most remarkable women’s movements in colonial India. Central to the Assam Mahila Samiti story is its founding Secretary, the firebrand feminist Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer, a polemical columnist, and a successful publicist of two vernacular magazines in the 1940s. The book traverses these individual and collective journeys from the 1920s to the 1950s, exploring their negotiations with the complex terrain of the multi-ethnic Brahmaputra valley during the highly politicised period of the anti-colonial movement. It argues that theoretical understanding of the term public sphere may be enriched through an engagement with rare archival materials of these middle class women’s associations’ hand written minutes of meetings in a local language in early twentieth-century colonial India and posits that gender may not function merely as constitutive of the public, but how women’s collectives may shape, transform and orchestrate a veritable gendered public, resistant to both native patriarchy and sometimes to colonial authority.
Download or read book Women s Agency and Social Change written by Meeta Deka and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women’s Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and women’s subordination therein. British intervention, 1826–1947, by itself did not impact the agency aspect on women directly, but the emergence of new forces and factors sowed the seeds of women’s agency to impact social change, even if minimal. In the post-Independence period, British colonial legacy perpetuated the subordination of women through caste and class hierarchy at several levels, but an undercurrent of a feminist struggle persisted, not merely as a movement but also at individual levels. The book is written with the hope of encouraging future research on women’s experiences in the Northeastern region of India, and elsewhere, based on the belief that knowledge production is, in itself, the praxis against oppressive structures and the need to understand the historical processes that slowly transformed women to become catalysts of social transformation.
Download or read book Women Empowerment in Assam written by Purusottam Nayak and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present paper is an attempt to analyze the status of women and their empowerment in terms of various indicators such as access to education, employment, household decision making power, financial autonomy, freedom of movement, exposure to media, political participation, experience of domestic violence etc in the state of Assam using secondary data obtained from various sources. The study reveals that development process in the state is not gender neutral; women enjoy quite inferior status as compared to the average women in India. Percentage of women in the government services and their political participation is quite low and does not show any sign of significant improvement. Sex ratio though not in favor of women is improving over time. Women enjoy better status in the state as compared to women in India in terms of decision making power at the household level while the situation is reverse in case of their financial autonomy and sexual violence. Inter district disparity is rampant in the state. Districts like Kamrup and Tinisukia in spite of having high per capita DDP have not been able to transform the development effort to bridge the gender gap. Districts with high literacy rates are having high proportion of female main and marginal workers and low proportion of non-workers. Higher the literacy higher is the female workforce participation rate. Female enrolment rate is below fifty per cent in spite of universalisation of primary education and provision of mid day meal schemes. Although Government has undertaken a number of steps the situation has remained gloomy mainly because the educated women are not forward looking and cherish the baseless age old customs. There is a need to create awareness towards achieving the desired goal of women empowerment in the state.
Download or read book Women s Agency and Social Change written by Meeta Deka and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Women's Agency and Social Change' focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and women's subordination therein
Download or read book Assamese Women in the Freedom Struggle written by Dr. Dipti Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Brings Out The Glorious Contribution Of The Women Of The Brahmaputra Valley Of Assam Towards The Attainment Of Independence Of India Through Their Participation In All The Phases Of The Freedom Struggle In The Period From 1921 To 1947.
Download or read book Women s Agency and Social Change written by Meeta Deka and published by Sage Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and women's subordination therein. British intervention, 1826-1947, by itself did not impact the agency aspect on women directly, but the emergence of new forces and factors sowed the seeds of women's agency to impact social change, even if minimal. In the post-Independence period, British colonial legacy perpetuated the subordination of women through caste and class hierarchy at several levels, but an undercurrent of a feminist struggle persisted, not merely as a movement but also at individual levels. The book is written with the hope of encouraging future research on women's experiences in the Northeastern region of India, and elsewhere; hence, a discussion on sources, methods and methodology is included in the conclusion. This book is based on the belief that knowledge production is, in itself, the praxis against oppressive structures and the need to understand the historical processes that slowly transformed women to become catalysts of social transformation.
Download or read book Violation of Women s Human Rights in Assam written by Mridula Devi and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tribal Woman written by B. C. Bhuyan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar papers on the social status of Karbi and Kachari women of Assam.
Download or read book The Bodo Movement and Women Participation written by Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based On Fieldwork In Kokrajhar, Nalbari And Darrang Districts Of Assam And Argues That Women Had A Significant Role To Play In The Border Movement But It Is Perceived To Be Secondary. It Thus Gives Us The Women`S Perspective On The Theme. 5 Chapters, Introduction, The Bodo-Antecedents Of The Movement The Bodo Movement, The Bodo Movement And Women`S Participation, Conclusion.
