The journey of a southern feminist /

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Author / Creator:Jain, Devaki, 1933- author.
Imprint:Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, [2018]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12018842
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ISBN:9789353280710
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9789352806225
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9789352806218
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9789352806232
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:A vivid account of a personal journey engaging with postcolonial efforts to liberate the mind from the colonial legacy.
Other form:Print version: Jain, Devaki, 1933- Journey of a southern feminist. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd, [2018] 9789352806218
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the birthing of a feminist and her journey
  • Development as if women mattered : can women build a new paradigm?
  • Advances in feminist theory : an Indian perspective
  • The leadership gap : a challenge to feminists
  • Minds, not bodies : expanding the notion of gender in development
  • Indigenising feminism
  • Challenges for women in India in the new millennium
  • Globalism and localism : negotiating feminist space
  • Women's participation in the history of ideas and the reconstruction of knowledge
  • Feminist networks, people's movements and alliances : learning from the ground
  • To be or not to be : problems in locating women in public policy
  • What is wrong with economics? : can the aam aurat redefine economic reasoning?
  • The first challengers : the feminists of the South
  • The evolution of ideas : a feminist's reflections on the partnership with the UN system
  • Looking back at the South commission
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author.