Author: Brinda Karat
Publisher: Three Essays
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 284
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188789364
Description
This is a comprehensive book on the wide ranging concerns of the women’s movements in India from a left perspective. The author’s active involvement in the women’s struggles adds to the strength of her narrative. It weaves together experiences and critical observations to create a work of great theoretical and practical import.
It is that rare book, wise and modest, which informs, instructs, inspires-but with the lightest of touch. Realistic enough to know that for the vast majority of women in India the struggle is for sheer survival against all odds; visionary enough to know that the battle for survival itself shall not be won without winning the battle or emancipation from all kinds of oppression and exploitation. At the heart of that battle for emancipation in our country are the women of our villages and our working classes. This book is written from their standpoint.
Contents
FOREWORD BY AIJAZ AHMAD
PREFACE
MULTIPLE STRUGGLES
The Multiple Struggles of Women
Globalising Resistance Against Globalisation
Socialism and women’s Emancipation
GLOBALIZATION AND SURVIVAL ISSUES
Neo-Liberal Agendas and Rural Women’s Concerns
Globalisation and women’s Work in Non-Agricultural Sector
Fighting for a Basic Human Right
For an Alternative food Policy
The Feminisation of Poverty in Bihar
Budgeting Women Out in the Year of Empowerment
Gender Budgeting
No Jobs Ahead
ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Some Issues Concerning Women’s Reservation Bill
Reservation Rites-Women as Political Extras
OBCs, Minorities and the Women’s Bill
Biology, Ideology and Women in Politics
Vote for Policies, Not Gender
Women Chief Ministers
National Commission, or the National Omission of Women?
COMMUNALISM AND WOMEN
On the Uniform Civil code
The Hedgewar Rekha for Women
Democracy on Trial-Gujarat Sends Alarm Bells Ringing
Dangerous Experiments
Apologise or Go
Investigation as Collusion
Kanpur-BJP Government of Blame
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Liberalisation, Communalism and Struggle Against violence
On Women’s Unity and Citizenship rights
Against the Politics of Terror
Remembering the Melavalavu Six
Delivering Anything but Justice
Some Issues in the Struggles Against witch Hunting
Price of Honour
Dowry Related Violence
Domesticating women the Saffron Way
Coercive Family Planning
Planning vs Population control
R-486
A PERSONAL REMEMBERING
A Personal Remembering-MH, 1963-66