Women's studies is an academic field that draws on women's activist and interdisciplinary strategies keeping in mind the end goal to put ladies' lives and encounters at the focal point of study, while looking at social and social builds of sex; frameworks of benefit and abuse; and the connections amongst power and sex as they converge with different characters and social areas, for example, race, sexual introduction, financial class, and incapacity.

This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women’s and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women’s and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory; gender, caste and class; feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, aesthetics, cinema, new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to draw upon and transform these areas in national and international contexts. This book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers in women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, queer studies and South Asian studies.

This Volume Provides An Overview Of The State Of Women`S Education In India Since 1988 In All Its Aspects In The Light Of National Policy On Education (Npe, 1986) And Its Programme Of Action (Poa).

Lectures delivered at a Winter Institute, organized by the Research Centre for Women's Studies, S.N.D.T. Women's University, for the preparation of curriculum and teacher training in women's studies.

This book is written especially for UGC NET Women Studies preparation and it is a compilation of author’s self made notes prepared while preparing for this exam. This book contains 18 chapters. First 16 chapters covers topics like Women studies and its evolution, Feminism and its various types, Indian constitution and Women, Organizations for or by women, Concepts and theories, International conferences and conventions, Pioneer Women in various fields, Schemes and policies for Women etc. This Book contains all the major topics required to be studied by the students and 12 sets of UGC NET Women studies question papers (paper II and paper III) from June 2015 to Nov 2017 with UGC answer keys in last two chapters. The best thing about this book is its current affairs which are properly updated and arranged in chronological order. In addition it also contains some quotations of famous Women’s rights activists and the list of books of some of the famous authors. It also includes recent campaigns and social movements related to women’s issues. It is based on new pattern of examination and new emerging issues being asked in examination.

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.