Women’s Empowerment in India: From Rights to Agency

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Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya Åshild Kolås (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway)

Women’s Empowerment in India

From Rights to Agency

Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya, Åshild Kolås (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway), Eileen Connolly

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Routledge India
19 March 2024

Social discrimination; Gender studies: women; Elections & referenda; Regional government; Pressure groups & lobbying

The volume brings together readings describing a range of less-traversed aspects and transferences of women’s rights and struggles in India and develops a comprehensive understanding of the interface between women’s activism and politics.

The book documents and discusses diverse ways in which Indian women have struggled for empowerment, political voice and representation, and rallied against injustice and discrimination. Against the backdrop of women’s assertion of rights and negotiations for empowerment, the chapters in this volume explore diverse facets of collective agency, and emanations of women’s politico-legal struggles against stereotypes of gender and class in post-independence India. While the donor-driven international community has been eager to celebrate the successes of its global normative agenda-setting and ‘best practices’ approach, this book - based primarily on field research by the contributors - showcases authentic local ownership and women’s own agency, taking seriously the need to understand the cultural context and pay attention to intersectionality. It presents various examples of women’s activism for change, reflecting on the quotidian struggles and dynamic assertions of voice and political power, within and outside of formal political institutions. The book is a contribution to the debate about agency and ownership as key aspects of empowerment, highlighting women who defy dominant narratives.

It will be an essential read for students and academics of political science, gender studies, sociology and social sciences, and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to readers interested in the history of women’s movements and their participation in national and local politics in India.

Edited by: Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya, Åshild Kolås (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway), Eileen Connolly
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781032124995
ISBN 10: 1032124997
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 19 March 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Women’s empowerment in India 1. Shifting contours of women’s activism in India 2. Multi-perspectivity in Indian legal discourse: The Hindu Code Bill debate 3. Women’s political participation in India: Alternative paths to empowerment 4. Cyber-activism on violence against women in India 5. The role of Self-Help Groups in rural Odisha: Promoting women’s empowerment 6. Speaking up from behind the veil: Women’s participation in Jan Sunwai and the struggle for transparency in rural Rajasthan 7. The Sa-chetana Process: In search of frameworks for understanding women’s empowerment 8. Corpo-activism: Dance and activist labour in the work of Komal Gandhar, Kolkata 9. Whither Indian women’s empowerment? Index.

Anjoo Sharan Upadhyaya is a professor of Political Science from Banaras Hindu University and a Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at MIT-World Peace University, Pune. Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). She has written extensively on governance, identity politics, gender, nationhood and representation. Eileen Connolly was the Director of the Ireland India Institute at Dublin City University. She is a specialist in gender and politics.