Author: Rudolf C Heredia
Edward Mathias/
Publisher: Indian Social Institute
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 347
ISBN/UPC (if available): N/A
Description
The contributions in this volume focus on those aspects of the family crisis which we believe provide the most crucial starting points for an effective response: Women, Children and Strategic interventions.
The family is most vulnerable, even to the point of breakdown, in the rapid social changes sweeping through our world. A new consensus pertaining to it can only be evolved by examining the old institutional order to make possible the birth of a new one.
The contributions in this volume focus on those aspects of the family crisis which we believe provide the most crucial starting points for an effective response: Women, children and strategic interventions. Starting points are never meant to be exclusive and we hope the ones we have chosen will in fact open to more inclusive and comprehensive responses.
Contents
Introduction: The Family in a Changing World
PART I : WOMEN IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY
Patriarchy and Gender Relations: An Overview
Patriarchy, Social Control and the Female Body
Reconstruction of Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century
Reconstituting Patriarchy: The Middle Class Syrian Christian Family
Women in Joint Forest Management
A Study on Employment Status and Income generating Activities of Socially underprivileged Slum Women
PART II : CHILDREN WITHOUT CHILDHOOD
Children of a Lesser God, Child Labor Law and Compulsory Primary Education
Child Labor: Facing the Harsh Reality
A Childhood in Waste--Wastepicker children
Discrimination against the Girl Child
The Sociological Context of Girls' Schooling: Micro Perspectives From the Slums of Delhi
PART III : STRATEGIES OF INTERVENTION
Feminism, Family and Social Change: Myths and Models
Feminist Intervention in Family Law: Towards Expanding and Degendering Care Arrangements
The Impact of the Adjustment Policy Programme on the Household
Growing Incidence of Female Headship: Causes and Cure
Woman's Natal Family and Adoption of Family Planning
PART IV: DOCUMENTS FOR DISCUSSION
Proclamation of the International Years of the Family
India's Accession to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Government of Maharashtra's Policy Statement on Women
CONCLUSION
Reflection and Action: A Work-Paper for Group Discussion
Index