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, by PATEL Vibhuti
Book Review of Socio-Economic Development of Tribal Women: Changes and Challenges by Rekha Talmaki, Delhi: The Women Press, pages-xxiii+222.
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Rekha Talmaki has made a serious and commendable effort at conducting survey based research on socio-economic status of tribal (…)
, by WEISS Piper
At an age when most kids are learning to walk, Laxmi Sargara was already married. Her husband, Rakesh, was just three-years-old when family sealed the deal on their fate. She was one.
Now seventeen years later the couple have set a history-making precedent by having their marriage annulled. (…)
, by CHAMBERLAIN Gethin
Money from the Department for International Development has helped pay for a controversial programme that has led to miscarriages and even deaths after botched operations.
Tens of millions of pounds of UK aid money have been spent on a programme that has forcibly sterilised Indian women and (…)
, by MARIK Soma
Long before the Nano was even a gleam in Ratan Tata’s eye, Mamata Banerjee had emerged as the most determined opponent of the Left Front in West Bengal. Rape and violence on women were important weapons in her arsenal in those days. Her discourse was always totally different from the discourse (…)
, by AIPWA
The 6th National Conference of AIPWA is to be held at Vijaywada on 8-9 February. As a curtain-raiser, we have an overview of the major issues and challenges facing the women’s movement in India today.
Liberation
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All over the world – be it in the Arab Spring, in (…)
, by MARIK Soma
“Hello Soma. You haven’t called me for a long time. Were you out of town? Or is your throat posing a problem once again?” – I would get this phone call several times every year. Maitreyidi was one of those who always remembered that I suffer from a bad throat, and since I have to teach, often (…)
, by RIERA Ataulfo
“The most indubitable feature of a revolution is the direct interference of the masses in historical events. In ordinary times the state, be it monarchical or democratic, elevates itself above the nation, and history is made by specialists in that line of business - kings, ministers, (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
Peasants, agricultural workers and women of Mansa district, Punjab observed New Year’s day this year with a protest gathering at the police headquarters in Mansa. Braving a severe cold wave, thousands of people gathered to protest a shocking situation where the rapists of a dalit minor girl roam (…)
, by Radical Socialist (India)
To introduce bills for the protection of women has been a standard device by governments intent on proving how progressive they are. This is nothing new, since even the colonial rulers did this. Yet,from the colonial imperialists to the present, such bills are very often intentionally flawed (…)
, by AIDWA
AIDWA welcomes the introduction in the Lok Sabha of the Bill on the Protection of Women Against Sexual Harassment at the Work place. This bill has been introduced after a consistent struggle by women’s organizations for several years.
However, AIDWA is deeply concerned about certain (…)
, by The Guardian
An Indian village has banned unmarried women from using mobile phones for fear they will arrange forbidden marriages that are often punished by death, a local official said today.
The Lank village council decided unmarried boys could use mobile phones, but only under parental supervision, said (…)
, by AIPWA
On 4 November, an AIPWA team of 50 activists visited Singahi Deeh village in Deoria district of UP, led by Geeta Pande, on hearing of the bodies of 3 young women being found buried in a field. On investigation the team were told that the three young women were Sarita, Anita and Neeta (all (…)
, by MENON Parvathi
“Practice of triple talaq discriminatory and unjust towards the wife, against constitutional principles, and contrary to Islam”
Fighting for justice:A book being released at the ninth national conference of the All-India Democratic Women’s Association in Kanpur on Wednesday. Kanpur: “The (…)
, by Correspondent(s)
Eleven days after The Indian Express reported that a 24-year-old teacher of West Bengal’s first Muslim university had not been able to hold classes for more than three months because she refused to heed the student union’s diktat to wear a burqa, Sirin Middya has won her battle
The university (…)
, by AMARNANI Rachna, GOYAL Sakshi , GURUVAISHNAVI
Review of: Girls and Girlhoods at Threshold of Youth and Gender-A Vacha Initiative, Editor: Vibhuti Patel, The Women Press, Delhi, pp/ xxv 480, Price: 1595.
In this voluminous contribution, the editor and the contributors have so succinctly brought out the different aspects of Girlhood. It is (…)
, by Swate
Self-presentation of Swate taken from their website July 1, 2010.
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SWATE, Society of Women in Action for Total Empowerment, is a grass-roots movement of more than 10000 rural women living in Karur District of Tamil Nadu in South India. In Tamil, the word (…)
, by THAKKAR Usha
Book Review by Dr. Usha Thakkar, Director, Research, Manibhuvan, Mumbai “Girls and Girlhoods at the Threshold of Youth and Gender-A Vacha Initiative”, Editor: Vibhuti Patel, The women Press, Delhi, xxv + 480, price: Rs. 1595.
This volume is an outcome of three decades of deliberations on (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
8 March 2010 marks the centenary of International Women’s Day – a hundred years from the time when the working class women’s movement first thought to observe ‘Women’s Day’ to celebrate their day-to-day struggles and assert the goal of women’s liberation.
International Women’s Day (IWD) (…)
, by CPI (ML) Liberation
A national Convention of women workers was held on October 9 at Bhilai, to facilitate ways in which to mobilize women workers to struggle for their rights.
The Convention, presided over by Sunita, Meena Pal, Dolly Dasgupta, was inaugurated by All India Agricultural Labour Association (AICCTU) (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Neera Desai dies of cancer
Mumbai:
Dr Neera Desai, one of the pioneers of women’s studies in India, died at her residence in Dadar on Thursday. She was 84 and was suffering from cancer.
Desai set up India’s first Research Centre for Women’s Studies at SNDT Women’s University and served as (…)
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