Interrogating women's leadership and empowerment /

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Imprint:	Los Angeles : SAGE, 2015.
Description:	1 online resource (267 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Leadership in women -- India. Feminism -- India. Women -- Political activity -- India. Feminism. Leadership in women. Women -- Political activity. India. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11239727

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Varying Form of Title:	Women's leadership and empowerment
Other authors / contributors:	Goyal, Omita, editor.
ISBN:	9789351501947 9351501949 9789351500797
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 5, 2015).
Summary:	Looking at gender through multiple lenses, this volume seeks to understand what empowerment really means to women today. It examines the situation of women in, and their contribution to, politics, business, education, social and economic development, the women's movement, health, law, insurgency and the arts. The volume analyses certain key issues of contemporary discourse including: * ownership of one's body and freedom of choice * redefinition of empowerment and leadership and how far we have achieved it * importance of equal access to education, employment and health * political participation and decision making, and * dichotomy between marginalisation of women on grounds of caste, class and religion in a society with changing laws on women's rights.
Other form:	Print version: 9789351500797

Table of Contents:

Understanding leadership: lessons from the women's movement
Revisiting the theme of women's empowerment: how leadership matters
Women leaders in every Mohalla, every village
Rockets with fire in their tails? Women leaders in Kerala's Panchayats
Labouring intellectuals: the conceptual world of Dalit women
Czarinas or girl fridays? Women in the corporate sector
Leadership for women's equality and empowerment in higher education
Anatomy of a change: early women doctors
From dynasty to legitimacy: women leaders in Indian politics
Other histories: gender and politics in the fiction of Mahasweta Devi
In her own write: writing from a Dalit feminist standpoint
Catalysing craft: women who shaped the way
Leadership in the arts: Rukmini Devi Arundale
Recasting bodies and the transformation of the self: women performers in the Bombay film industry (1925-1947)
Ascribing feminist intent: the invention of the Indian woman artist
The Alpha Songbirds: Independent and vibrant
Empowering women through education: the story of Indraprastha School
Gender and governance: from concern to indicators
The movement for change: implementation of sexual assault laws
Caregivers, caretakers: dealing with impunity and immunity at the margins.

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