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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Contents: Introduction. I. Historical issues in the construction of gender and identity : 1. Reflections in the global mirror: border zones between transnational and NGO/womens movements/Renuka Sharma. 2. Discerning women: variations on the theme of gender a review/Seemanthini Niranjana. 3. The construction of Indian women s identities in South Africa/Margie Maistry. 4. Trespass, impass, collaboration: doing research on women s rights in India/Ratna Kapur and Cossman Brenda. 5. The colonial era and education for women in India/Anuradha Mittal. 6. The middle class Indian woman: social roles and societal status/Anjali Arora. 7. Western feminist theory, Asian Indian performance and a notion of agency/Avanti Meduri. 8. A community apart: women in pre-oil Kuwait/Haya Al-Mughni. II. Gender, development ethics and the environment : 1. Economic policies and development interventions: experiences of organizing women at grassroots levels/Martha Pushparani. 2. Gandhi s economics of peace/Joseph Prabhu. 3. Ritual in development theory as ritual in India: a story about women and modernization of the third world/Priya Kapoor. 4. North-south conflicts over the environment/Ghristopher Plummer. 5. Issues in health ethics in modern India/Purushottama Bilimoria and Renuka Sharma. 6. Female infanticide/Michelle George. III. Current concerns, reviews and reports : 1. Notes on the NGO forum/Irene Tinker. 2. Beijing 95 and the issue of human rights/Rita Maran. 3. Review of representations of gender, democracy and identity politics in relation to South Asia, by Renuka Sharma/Maha Silva. 4. Review of the nation and its fragments by Partha Chatterjee/Catherine Coleman. 5. A brief report: the uprooted girls of Bangladesh : a microlevel study of trafficking problems in commonalities and differences/Salima Sarwar. 6. Brief reports from the workshop, women and the environment: denying blame and claiming credit for women s fertility, the political scapegoat for global poverty, environmental degradation, and declining public health , at the Australian conservation foundation s international conference, Melbourne, 1995/Lynette Dumble. 7. An escape from blame: severing the bond between populationism and environmentalism/Lynette Dumble. 8. Denying blame and identifying the major culprits of global destruction/Maureen Murphy. 9. Wither west-east: the spectre of population reform policies and developmentalism in the current context of economic globalization and GATT changes in India/Renuka Sharma. 10. "Empowerment of women": the population controllers latest anti-feminist rhetoric or "salvaging the earth by killing women"/Renate Klein. 11. The sacrifice of sovereignty: China s fertility control policy/Melinda Tankard Reist. "The volume continues reflections on presentations, reports and debates from the Beijing women s/United Nations conferences in 1995 and the IX interdisciplinary women s conference in Australia, in 1996. With a long introduction and summations, twenty essays and review articles extend to discussions of the disciplines and activism in relation to societies in transition, particularly in the third world. Key issues are concerns with the development of activism and critical theory within the academic framework, but more significantly, also in the civic spaces increasingly inhabited by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and committed individuals, that are taking up the struggle toward understanding issues in respect of human rights, especially gender-, child, and- the aged-related, indigenous and social justice, welfare, over-development and industrialization in Asia, multinationals and globalization, GATT, WTO, intellectual property and plant variety rights, biotechnology, corruption s and the glass ceiling effect that all but marginalized subaltern voices in these processes. Each essay is a critique of such phenomena, written by specialists, activists and insiders alike who have worked on structural adjustments, human rights.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. Diaspora (from the Greek meaning scattering, dispersion) is the mass migration of people with common roots to more than one location. The word was first used for Jews exiled from Israel in ancient times. The Indian diaspora, of over twenty million, is spread across many regions and continents. This collection of essays examines the concept of diaspora, considering its cultural, economic, geographical, political and social dimensions, and focuses on the Indian diaspora. It also examines issues of displacement and resettlement, and of the creation of a distinctly socio-religious Indian community. This volume reflects on conceptual and methodological questions, as well as the historical contours of the issue. Readers will find analyses of the nature of migration, ethnic divides and tensions, and linkages with the homeland. Case studies of the Indian diaspora in Australia, Sri Lanka, South Africa and Fiji, as well as the diaspora of Dalits, provide insights regarding multiculturalism. Discussions on how place is being substituted by space and how globalisation gives a new direction to migration are among the distinctive features. The essays also traverse the fields of sociology, social anthropology and cultural mediations. An invaluable resource for students of modern Indian history, politics and sociology, this book should appeal to all those interested in understanding the ramifications of the Indian diaspora. This collection will be of help to researchers enquiring into multicultural ties and policy makers concerned with international relations.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 460 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.