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Women Studies    Price: Rs. 850.00  Buy Now Women Workers in Informal Sector R. P. Yadav Women constitute about 48 percent of nations’ population. About 42.30 crore workers are working in India. The share of women in total employment is about 29 percent (12.27 crores) compared to 71 percent of men. Out of 12.27 crores women workers in India,  ..more  Price: Rs. 1100.00  Buy Now Empowerment of Women through Gender Budgeting Mita Ashish Shah The term Gender Budgeting is a recognized tool for empowering women. It includes various Government initiatives which addresses gender issues in relation to public expenditure and policy. Right from pre-independence days the need to inculcate a culture  ..more  Price: Rs. 650.00  Buy Now Manvadhikar avem Mahila Utpidan- Vividhik Paripeksha S. Mahavar HINDI ..more  Price: Rs. 450.00  Buy Now Mahila Manvadhikar: Jvalanth Mudde avam Pramukh Vyavashtyen S. Maurya हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 700.00  Buy Now Mahilaon avam Balkon ke Viruudh Hinsa R. P. Yadav हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 650.00  Buy Now Mahila aur Badalta Samajik Parivesh M.C. Khandela हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Bhartiya Samaj mein Mahilayen Vimarsh avam Yatharth S. Maurya हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Panchayati Raj mein Mahilayen A. Vyas हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 925.00  Buy Now Female Foeticide D.K. Dixit ,  T. Sharma “There will be no generation of great men untill there has been a generation of free women of free mothers”. In Indian society, female foeticide has emerged as a burning social problem during the last few years. The girl child in India is treated right from her birth as an additional burden, an extra mouth to feed, aliability and another man’s property. The increasing imbalance between men and women is leading to many crimes. Women who constitute half a human population have been discriminated, harassed and exploited. In our country a girl is worshiped as a Devi on one hand and denied his existence on the other as if she has no right to live. Time has perhaps come for us to get rid to male enauvinism and treat children as gift of nature regardless of their gender. It is warned to those who prefer male child over female child, just for the sake of continuace of their family. There is not far off when their son will have to remain unmarried as they would not find brides. Girl child and women in India are the most vulnerable to discrimination and deprivation. The general thinking of parents is they expect sons but not daughters to provide financial and emotional care, especially in their old age, sons add to family wealth and property while daughters droin it through dowries. Son continue the family lineage while daughters are married away to another household. Son perform important Religious roles, and sons defend and exercise the family’s power while daughters have to be defended and protected creating a perceived burden on the household. The advancement of medical technology changed the fate of unborn child and posed threat to its life, particularly to the life of female child in the form of foetus. The papers presented in this book explain the problem of female foeticide in India. This book makes a path breaking contribution in this direction. It shows the major issues which highlight the problem of female foeticide. This book will be highly useful to the students of sociology, medical, family counsellor and all those persons dealing with the problem of female child. ..more  Price: Rs. 595.00  Buy Now Rural Women Entrepreneurship Harshit Dwivedi Entrepreneurship is one of the most important factors that influence the industry. The general impression about the women Entrepreneurs across the word is also changing slowly. In this book entitled “Rural Women Entrepreneurship” covers the need to strengthen business owned by women in rural areas and to facilitate the entry of small, medium and micro enterprises. It has been reinforced in the recent years by the emergence of a ‘global market’ accelerated by the affordability and penetration of information technology. This book presents various aspects of Entrepreneurship development with respect to Indian rural women. The subject matter of Rural Women Entrepreneurship development included wide range of topics from Rural area of farmers, Rural women in agriculture, Rural women empowerment, Indian women Entrepreneurship, Women economic force and Entrepreneurial restructuring. This book contains 14 research papers by authors from all religion of India. It is expected that the book will be highly useful for Students, Scholars, Professors, Planners, Policy makers and Indian Industries. ..more  Price: Rs. 475.00  Buy Now Women Empowerment R. P. Yadav According to Manu Smriti ‘Women is protected by the father in her childhood, by the husband in adulthood and by the son in her old age’. Women are considered as powerless and weaker section of society. The vast majority of women are ‘assetless’ and illiterate. They have faced social, economic and political discrimination. Women’s empowerment is a term widely used now-a-day. Empowerment of women has been recognized as a ‘Central Issues’ in determining the status of women. Empowerment of women involves many things – economic opportunity, property rights, political representation, social equality, personal rights and so on. It is a ‘growth process’ that invo9lves intellectual enlightenment, economic enrichment and social emancipation on the part of women. The Constitution of India itself has provided women a significant position in the socio-economic life of the Nation. To uphold the constitutional mandate, the state has enacted various legislative measures intended to ensure equal right. The five year plans have space for development of the women. The present book is divided into following chapters: ∙ National Policy for Empowerment of Women ∙ Central Social Welfare Board and Women Empowerment ∙ Empowerment of Women: Some Burning Issues ∙ Women Empowerment and Development ∙ Vocational Training Programme for Women Empowerment ∙ Women in Informal Sector ∙ Women Workers in Embroidery Work ∙ Role of State in Women Empowerment ∙ Women Education ∙ Human Rights in India ∙ Appendices It is hoped that the book will be useful for academicians, researchers and students. ..more  Price: Rs. 575.00  Buy Now Mahila Shasaktikaran : Naveen Bhumikayen avem Chunotiyan G. Sharma हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 525.00  Buy Now Bharat mein Mahila Manvadhikar : Pramukh Chunotiyan S. Maurya हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 700.00  Buy Now Bharat mein Mahila Shashaktikaran S. Mahavar हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 925.00  Buy Now Mahila Rajnetik Nettratva avam Mahila Vikas S. Morya हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 925.00  Buy Now Rajya avam Mahila Manvadhikar S. Mahavar हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 1050.00  Buy Now Women and Health I. Jenitta Mary ,  C. Chidambaranathan “Women and Health” discuss the general perspective of women’s health in descriptive manner. Health is one of the areas yet to be succeded in our country, in that women’s health is also in a deprived posotion. The status and role of the women determines the awareness towards their health. In the modern era still the health condition of women in India is not in a healthy way. So the causal factor and realistic blockage should be known to demolish all sorts of barrier. In this regard, this book had tried to analyze the women’s health in multi-dimensional way. Theoretical and research articles had brought the unkown facts and the reasons in a logical way. Social, psychological and medical aspects had been reviewed in the rural women setting. Moreover, the rights and health facilities of women also included to prevent and control the problem and get possible soultion for it. The academicians, research scholars and doctors of different personnel from various disciplines contributed in an effective manenr related to their field. The articles in the book os arranged in concern with social issues, social evils and its collisitions, impact of education, psychological input, and health variations and health promoting measures in India. So it will help the students, researchers, administrators, and other persons to know the contemporary issues of women’s health in a brief as well as in qualitative way. ..more  Price: Rs. 1100.00  Buy Now Feminism in Contemporary Indian Women Writers M. F. Patel Feminism recognizes the inadequacy of male-created ideologies and struggles for the spiritual, economic social and racial equality of women. Feminism in Contemporary Indian Women Writers is a latest attempt ot explore and criticise the Indian Women Writers. The anthology covers a unique collection of twenty five scholarly papers from eminent scholars of India. The Indian Women Writers analysed in this anthology are: Anita Desai, Manju Kapur, Shashi Deshpande, Shobha De, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Arundhati Roy, Radhika Jha and Nayantara Sahgal. On the whole the anthology covers a fairy comprehensive ground. It is hoped that the anthology will be of great help to the students, reserachers and scholars of English literature and will even appeal to those interested in Indian Women Writers. ..more  Price: Rs. 575.00  Buy Now Rural Women in Informal Sector S. Mookiah This book is an outcome of an extensive empirical research undertaken by the author based on the field work on rural women in Informal Sector. Since the topic is related to women exploitation due to illiteracy and ignorant. Women have been the most underprivileged and discriminated strata of the society not only in India but the world over. In spite of all Government and Non-Governments’ efforts, they have been highly ignorant clients of the informal sector. The author enriches the analysis with examples citing available information of the rural working women. The author had to put intensive efforts to collect the reliable sources from various governmental agencies and other non-governmental agencies pertaining to women vulnerability in the informal sectors. This book envisaged the miserable conditions of women in informal sectors and is organized into six chapters; each chapter is focused on various issues pertaining to rural women in informal sector, specially socio-economic conditions of women, snap shot of informal sector, knowledge review of various informal sector issues, area profile of the informal sector, base live survey of informal sector and analysis and finally it had discussed conclusion and policy suggestions in order to strengthen the informal sector. This book will be a blueprint for all academia, civil society, NGOs, researchers in all fields of social science research for policy decision making. ..more  Price: Rs. 395.00  Buy Now Bhartiya Samaj Mein Nari Pragya Sharma हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 925.00  Buy Now Post-Modern Indian Women Novelists in English M. F. Patel Post-modern Indian Women Novelists in English is a latest attempt to explore and criticise the Indian Post-modern Women Writers. The anthology covers a unique collection of scholarly papers from eminent scholars of India. The Indian Post-modern Women Writers analysed in this anthology are: Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Arundhati Roy, Shashi Deshpande, Gita Mehta, Gita Hariharan, Manju Kapur, Shobha De, Rama Mehta and Bharati Mukherjee. On the whole the anthology covers a fairy comprehensive ground. It is hoped that the anthology will be of great help to the students, researchers and scholars of English literature and will even appeal to those interested in Indian Women Novelists. ..more  Price: Rs. 750.00  Buy Now Langik Hinsa and Mahila Sashaktikaran R. P. Yadav ,  R. Deep ,  P. Roy हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 450.00  Buy Now Bharat Ki Mahila Swantra Senani L. P. Mathur हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 325.00  Buy Now Adolescent Girls: Awareness, Rights and Reproductive Health D. K. Narang ,  N. Chhabra ,  K. Koradia The basic approach of this book has been shaped by our own research, professional and personal experience as teachers and researchers. We aimed for a text that includes complexities of adolescent age intervention which will be relevant and useful in bridging a gap between theory and research on adolescent’s lives. Proper knowledge imparted during adolescent age has positive impact on the adolescent’s development than at any other time in life. It is imperative to maximize both the amount and quality of knowledge that adolescents receive which will ensure a strong foundation for future learning. The text approaches adolescents as a comprehensive, integrated experience, one that takes place through their perception rather than through a formal adult directed approach. The need for parents, caretakers, teachers, who can integrate nature and education, using adolescent’s knowledge and perception as the integrators is also highlighted. The text focuses on the awareness needs of adolescents for their reproductive health. Expanded and updated discussions on the sexual issues, rights, current research studies on the impact of intervention on the knowledge and perception have been dealt. The intervention package is prepared which is suitable to the immediate environment, culture, education and age of adolescent girls. It can be useful for training of health workers, teachers and participation of parents. In addition, the content of book highlights the interacting contribution of biology to the development of adolescent girls, explains how the intervention process helps adolescents to utilize reproductive rights for their well being. ..more  Price: Rs. 395.00  Buy Now Panchyati Raj aur Mahila Vikas M. Rathore हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Mahilayen aur Manvadhikar S. Parmar हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 900.00  Buy Now Mahila Nettratva avam Rajnitik Sehbhagita I. Chaturvedi हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 425.00  Buy Now Crime Against Women R. A. P. Singh In the men’s world women have exclusive existence. But this is a new perception. And the exclusive space is not only claimed, it is being acquired. Post-Modernity notion of equity is at the top of the feminist agenda. Apart from this equity programming, our concern is not less important if we take in to account which is popularly known as crime against women. Is it different from crime against men? Men commit crime against men but men look at women as a soft target, not only outside home and beyond, no wonder within home itself. Women are exploited intimately. This book addresses macro sensitivity plus micro manifestation. With crime perspective the book is based on integral approach moving simultaneously towards rural and urban regions, higher and lower segments of women; those enjoying campus and those working in the field, those who are working in the office and those who are house-wives, those who are wage workers, those who are daughters and those who are daughter-in-laws. This provides ample raw data and direction for fresh research. ..more  Price: Rs. 650.00  Buy Now Women Entrepreneurs: Role Performance and Psychological Profile S. Purohit ,  P. Dashora This book is a systematic depiction of psychological complexities of women entrepreneurs in purely work-set-up. For evaluation of these complexities special emphasis has been laid down on motivation, role-stress, coping, emotional intelligence and transactional styles of women entrepreneurs associated with different sectors. Fundamentally this book is designed on research findings and personal experience of authors and entrepreneurs of manufacturing, trading and service sectors sine-qua-non. For in depth and wider understanding of these aspects new instruments have been improvised, established and enumerated. Modest efforts have been made to explore and introduce the correlative effects and linkages of all these important aspects. The present book will be of great help to many women entrepreneurs to provide them clear understanding of complexities of psychological profile of entrepreneurs and workers along with their surrounding of work schedule. As the world grows and sees more and more women entrepreneurs coming to the light of the business and a need for understanding of their motivation coping styles, emotional intelligence is paramount. This book will be a step towards the direction of evolving “Superior Entrepreneurship” for future. Entrepreneurship is always a fear for the impact of fluctuation in economic state. In current time of economic recession the book becomes even more relevant with the state of challenges being faced by entrepreneurial commerce. ..more  Price: Rs. 375.00  Buy Now Prachin Bharat Main Nari A. Pareek हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 450.00  Buy Now Working Women : Spirituality, Psychological Well-being and Marital Adjustment Kavita Koradia ,  Rikhita Singhal ,  Darshan K. Narang This book is about the relationship of spirituality and emotionality with self-efficacy, burn out, psychological well-being and marital adjustment of working women. Efforts have been made to understand the interactive effects and relationships of all these important adpects of one’s life. The book depicts that women in mid life have a right bent of mind towards spirituality and emotionality which help them to manage their stress and the daily pressure of household work and jobs. A women’s self-efficacy regarding her work and family responsibilities can help her to reduce role conflicts. Now-a-days women are equally participating in each and every field of like men. In order to fulfill the career and family demands, they at times experience conflicts and lot of stress. This can adversely influence their family environment particularly their psychological well-being and marital adjustment so the authors have tried to introduce spirituality and emotionality to create balance in the age of working women. The book will be of great help to many female professionals to provide them a clear understanding of the complex relationship between work and home segment and also the co-operation of family members and re-adjustment of work schedules. The book adds another perspective in the area of family studies and enrich, it with research studies to narrate the interactive effects of the variables scientifically. ..more  Price: Rs. 525.00  Buy Now Mahila Shashaktikaran : Siddhant Avam Vyavhar M.C. Khandela हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 400.00  Buy Now Rural Women and Their Quality of Life S. Bhattacharjee There is no absolute standard of living that is universally accepted although the people living in western capitalist societies are often considered to enjoy a higher quality of life. “Quality of life”, however, varies in time, space and culture. What is better in one culture may not be so in another. People’s desires, expectations in material and economic life as well as preceptions of good life vary across cultures. Good health, wealth, high political power and education may not always be the only criteria for a better “quality of life”. Prevailing social norms, cultural ideologies, and personal values may also influence an individual’s “quality of life”. This book, “Rural Women and their Quality of Life” is a comprehensive and most valuable document on the subject. An empirical investigation into the life-situations of rural women belonging to the different communities viz. Caste Hindus, Muslims and Santals with distinct socio-cultural practices and ideologies; and critical notes on their “quality of life” in objective as well as subjective terms have been presented in this publication. The power, priviledges and autonomy that the women enjoy in the public domain are, however, used not to form a separate world of women but to reinforce their community life. The world of women of all the communities in the villages mentioned in this book is primarily centred around their household, family and lineage. This publication will serve the interest of teachers, researchers, students of sociology; as well as administrators, planners and social workers." ..more  Price: Rs. 500.00  Buy Now Women and Fertility Behaviour K. Choudhary Every culture, irrespective of its simplicity and complexity has its own set of beliefs and practices which are believed to serve major determinants for the regulation of fertility behaviour in a community. Women living in diverse socio-economic and domestic circumstances experience difference in fertility behaviour. The book is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter deals with the framework of the study area, social structure, objectives of the study, sampling procedure and data collection techniques. The second chapter gives an idea of the demographic profile of the respondents. The third chapter deals with the cultural beliefs and practices of fertility behaviour. The various traditions, beliefs and practices related to puberty rites, pregnancy, food practices, child-delivery practices, agency for delivery, post-partum care, child-rearing practices and infertility are discussed. The fourth chapter highlights people’s attitude towards infant and child mortality in terms of their beliefs, emotions and behaviour in the rural and urban areas. The fifth chapter deals with indigenous practices controlling fertility behaviour. It gives a brief description of how women in the rural and urban areas are governed by indigenous modes of fertility control. What are the beliefs and indigenous practices adopted for fertility control in the rural and urban areas? How do social norms regulate and control fertility behaviour? The sixth chapter deals with modern fertility control techniques, the concept of family planning as understood by them, sources of information, difference in the practice of family planning methods among rural and urban people. In the last chapter the major findings are discussed. ..more  Price: Rs. 600.00  Buy Now Manvadhikar aur Mahilayen R. Singh हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 450.00  Buy Now Mahilaon ke Prati Apradh Pragya Sharma हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 375.00  Buy Now Indian Widows : Coping Style, Mental Health and Personal Adjustment Manju Mehta ,  Usha Kulshreshta ,  Rashmi Chowdhry Bereavement, especially the loss of spouse, has a severe impact on the psychological and social well-being of women. Loss of spouse has a strong impact on their personal and social adjustment, health, and life satisfaction. In the Indian social scenario, where widows are excluded from full participation in society and have to perform many rituals, the condition of widows becomes all the more miserable. The upliftment of widows is one of the priority areas under women empowerment for both governmental and social agencies. In such a scenario, to understand the psycho-dynamics of widowhood is of great importance. The present book is an attempt in this direction with special focus on middle aged educated widows, a relatively less attended section of widows. An attempt is made to see the effect of widowhood on repression-sensitisation tendency, ways of coping, mental health, and personal adjustment. The book also includes a research study to narrate the effects, scientifically, on working as well as non-working widows. An effort is being made to compare working and non-working married women. The book provides some valuable hints for social planners and policy makers for developing strategies and tactics for helping widows in their readjustment. It is useful for counselors, family members, well-wishers and all those who are concerned with the welfare and upliftment of widows. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Naveen Panchyati Raj avam Mahila Nettratva P. Mal हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 395.00  Buy Now Bharat Mein Mahilayen Rajbala Singh ,  Madhubala Singh हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 400.00  Buy Now Aadhunikta aur Mahila Utpidan M. C. Khandela हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 500.00  Buy Now Aadhunikta aur Bhartiya Samaj M. C. Khandela हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Women and Leadership N. Kulkarni Despite being relegated to the background since time immemorial, women have often broken the barriers of male domination and attained leadership positions on the basis of their own merit and determination. Yet, studies on the trends and factors that enabled them to do so were neglected. Gender bias took the upper hand and in-depth research on their leadership roles was ignored. Many reasons were attributed to the lack of research in this field of female human endeavour. This book takes up the entire spectrum of women and the leadership roles they have performed, sometimes with commendable results, in different parts of the world. Their struggles to reach the top, the hurdles they had to cross and the obstacles that were put in their way have been delineated with clarity and in simple, easy-to-understand language. The various fields that they have conquered and the important roles that they now play in what was exclusively the male domain are explained and discussed in full detail. The chapters have been chosen with care to ensure that as wide a perspective is placed before the reader. They include: ¨ Women and Leadership ¨ Gender, Leadership and Legislatures ¨ Components of Integrative Leadership ¨ Constraints of Leadership ¨ Vision of Integrative Leadership ¨ Origins of Different Committee Styles ¨ Women as Journalists ¨ Feminists and Feminism in the News ¨ Vision of Leadership in Traditional & Feminine Approaches ¨ Leadership Secrets of Elizabeth I ¨ Women Leadership in Asia This book will be of definite interest to all those interested in the development of women down the ages and teachers, students and researchers in women’s studies. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Women in World Journalism M.L. Jena News media produced by, for and about women have long been crucial mechanisms by which women can define the alternative visions of womanhood and cultivate new socio-political landscapes. Alternative news media advocated versions of women’s social, political, and cultural roles that were quite different from those proposed by or imposed by mainstream media. Such media have enabled women to exchange and share news unlikely to find a home in mainstream media institutions and to develop journalistic and media skills. This book describes the entry of women into journalism, their struggles to gain equality and their determined efforts to ensure that their voice too was heard. Women journalists all over the world more or less face the same kind of problem initially-the resistance to their entry by their male colleagues. The chapters indicate the status of women journalists today and how they attained it. • Women Journalists • Problems of Women Journalists • Women and Newsroom Values • Women’s Ideas in the Media • Women in Print Journalism • Women Journalists and the Gender Tag • Shattering the Glass Ceiling • Women Reporters in Wartime • New Trends in Media: Impact on Women • Women in Broadcasting and the Net • Women in the Media The book will be useful for students, teachers and researchers in journalism and all other dimensions of the mass media and mass communications. ..more  Price: Rs. 525.00  Buy Now Women in Developing Countries P. Iyer It is an established fact that women are biologically stronger than their male counterparts enabling them to enjoy a higher life expectancy. This is seen in the statistics of the developed world where the sex differential is nearly seven years. However, in developing countries the health status of women is not so bright and the differential can be as low as two years and sometimes even in the minus. The reason for this is mainly their high rates of mortality in childhood and at child-bearing ages. Social customs and tradition places them at a lower level than males; in some countries they eat only when the men and boys have finished. Female mortality rates in some of the developing countries can be higher than 30 to 50 per cent of males. This book discusses the status and living conditions of women in developing countries in all its aspects and dimensions and provides a clear picture of the miseries they have to endure because of their sex. The chapters include: · Women and Work in Developing Nations · Women, Technology and the Development Process · Women’s Nutrition through the Life Cycle · Violence Against Women · Women’s Mental Health · Indian Women’s Participation in Science and Engineering · Women’s Struggles in Bangladesh · Women in Pakistan · Women’s Movement in the Philippines · Women’s Movement in Kenya · Women and Technology Resources for Future ..more  Price: Rs. 900.00  Buy Now Mahila Jagriti aur Sashaktikaran S. B. Varma ,  M. L. Soni ,  S. Gupta हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 950.00  Buy Now Rural Development through Womens Participation and Electronic Media Sawalia Bihari Verma ,  Shiv Kumar Singh This book has been designed to meet a long-felt need for a compendium of papers contributed by writers, authors, subject experts, academicians and consultants and those who have been related agro-development, rural development, social development, overall entire infrastructure promoting rural bases. The book contains papers on the following subjects: Participation and empowerment; Rural infrastructure in telecommunications; Empowerment of women and marginalised groups in panchayats; Women’s self-help groups; Women’s welfare and social development; Communication needs for rural women; Women corporate leadership; Women in commercial poultry, Status of women in India; Women’s role in gram sabhas; Self-employment as a career; Child labour in India; Electronic media for agro and rural development; Biotechnology and bioinformation; National social assistance programmes; Internet in India: an oversight; Decentralisation—new agency of the World Bank and Panchayats and child labour. This book will prove useful not only to students of Commerce, Economics and Management but also to those who are appearing for CA, CS, Cost Accountant, CAIIB and other professional examinations. In addition, to the teaching community, researchers, policy makers, government officials, academicians and so on. ..more  Price: Rs. 400.00  Buy Now Mahilayaen, Langik Asamanta Avem Aapradh P. Sharma हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 1050.00  Buy Now Nari Sashaktikaran : Vimarsh avam Yathartha, 2nd Ed. Asha Kaushik हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 500.00  Buy Now Mahila Utpidan, Dahez Pratadna avem Dahez Hatya K. Bhati हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 195.00  Buy Now Nobel Puraskar Se Sammanit Vishva Ki Mahilayen Yougesh Kumar Sharma ,  Prgya Sharma हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 475.00  Buy Now Womens Liberation and Human Rights Asima Sahu Women's Liberation is a movement that was scoffed at and ridiculed in the early days.This book tries to put the struggle of women for equlity in a perspective that makes it easy for a reader to follow the diverse actions of women libbers all over the world. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Womens Role in Indian National Movement Raj Kumar ,  Rameshwari Devi Romila Pruthi This book is the historical documentation of the women who braved the colonial rulers of India and committed themselves to the fight for the freedom of the country. They were focused on only one goal-the freedom of the country. Annie Besant, Sarojini Naidu, Aruna Asaf Ali, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Madame Bhikaji Cama and Margaret Cousins, who were among the early pioneers of the women's nationalist movement in India, inspired thousands of other women, and also men, to take up cudgels against the British. Their fight was for freedom and in this historic struggle, the role of women in the nationalist movement cannot be underplayed. The editors have conducted intensive research in archival records and historical documents to present a living record of the activities of the brave women who participated in the nationalist movement. They have sifted through hundreds of papers and documents to bring their story to life so that it could be an inspiring saga for the youth of later generations who would be living in a country faced with problems of a different nature and give themthe courage and fortitude to overcome and fight them. This book will be of special interest to those who wish to know more about the people who worked towads the freedomof the country and brought it to a successful culmination. Students of history, sociologists,teachers and academics will find it interesting reading and worthwhile research material. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Women, Conflict-Resolution and Culture :Gandhian Perspective Naresh Dadhich BRANDED as the 'Second-Sex' since time immemorial, women have always been degraded to a secondary role in society. However, with the spread of education and awareness, conflicts came into being, often leading to mass public agitations and displays of anger and wrath. Some of them related to female emancipation, franchise rights, equality and equal opportunities to work and livelihood. This book has been planned against this background, endeavouring to explain the rise of women's conflicts and attempts to resolve them in terms of contemporary social and political theory. Such an attempt has been long overdue as the complexities of the culture and society of modern times has led to more tensions between the sexes than a sense of stability. Mahatma Gandhi had realised the importance of women power and their role in shaping the path of history and progress. He spared no effort to drive home the fact that women were equal in all respects to men and could shoulder responsibilities with equal skill and capability. The contributors to this volume have dealt at length with various aspects of Gandhian thought in this respect, especially his concern for women, conflict resolution and culture and have approached the subject with academic enthusiasm. There is no doubt that this book will be useful for students, researchers and teachers of Political Science, History, Philosophy, Sociology,Gandhian Thought and Peace and Women's Studies. ..more  Price: Rs. 525.00  Buy Now Sister Nivedita Social Revolutionary Raj Kumar ,  Rameshwari Devi ,  Romila Pruthi No reading of India's struggle for freedom can be complete without knowing the role of Sister Nivedita, the Irish revolutionary who took up the cause of India's independence. Highly religious-minded, she was drawn to Swami Vivekananda and the teachings of the Ramakrishna Mission and gave up the land of her birth to become a brahmacharin--a full fledged follower of the Swami. However, she gave this up too, as the rules of the Mission prohibited political activity and her urge to fight for the freedomof the country got the better of her. 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Here articles and papers from different parts of India describes various views on different themes relating to gender in development. Gender in Development is of utmost importance today in the fields of research and academics. When we converse about Gender we focus on women and their overall development. Women are an important part of the functioning of any society. From family to group, group to region and region to country, women, like men, play important roles in various activities. Even so, women are found to be socio-economically discriminated everywhere. In that context, for the comprehensive development of women, it is a pre requisite to analyse the status and role of them through various aspects such as Education, Health, Politics, etc. Since social science is concerned with facts, it needs to reveal the facts behind the extent of gender development (past and present) in Indian society. The editors have also included human right concepts in the context of gender and development. The book will be of interest to academics, research scholars feminists, social researchers policy-makers and non-governmental organizations alike. ..more  Price: Rs. 400.00  Buy Now Aadivasi Mahilayen avem Manvadhikar Sheetal Meena HINDI ..more  Price: Rs. 800.00  Buy Now Gender Samanta aur Mahila Shashastikaran Ashutosh Vyas HINDI ..more  Price: Rs. 800.00  Buy Now Panchayati Raj avem Mahila Shashastikaran Maina Nirman HINDI ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Gifted Children : Identification and Development M. G. Pillai Many children are gifted. They possess faculties and abilities much beyond the average for their age-group. Some of them may even be geniuses with exceptional talent. But in most cases, the special talents go unrecognised in the early stages by parents and teachers and the child is left to fend for himself on two fronts. 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The book it is hoped will be found useful by social scientists, policy planners and national leaders. ..more  Price: Rs. 3500.00  Buy Now Women and the Indian Freedom Struggle Rajkumar ,  Rameshwari Devi ,  Romila Pruthi Breast to breast and shoulder to shoulder, the women of India have fought valiantly in the roughest and toughest struggle for national honour and independence from centuries immemorial, sword in hand, they have fought afoot and on horseback in the thickest of the battle. The sacrifices of the women’s form a golden page of Indian History. There are few works of women’s participation in the Nationalist movement. Important studies on the National Movement mostly lack proper examination of women’s participation in the freedom struggle.Contributions of the workers, peasants and even tribal have now found adequate coverage in the nationalist historiography. But one searches in vain for proper study of women’s participation in nationalist historiography. It is time to examine this subject and its contribution to the freedom movement in proper historical perspective. A study of the women covered in this series brings to light very clearly that without participation of women our struggle would have lacked its full vigour. There were quite a few aspects of the struggle which women could successfully manage where man would have failed. Some of the great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi have paid glowing tributes to the women and their contribution to the freedom struggle. This study we, therefore, hope will be a tribute to the immense work that these great women have accomplished. We hope that it would serve as repository not only to historians, teachers, students, researchers and administrators but also to the masses. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Womens Movement and Freedom Struggle Rajkumar ,  Rameshwari Devi ,  Romila Pruthi During Vedic times, women had full equality in all spheres with men. However, over time, the social system became maleoriented for various reasons, and women found themselves subjugated to the will of the men in the family. During India’s struggle for freedom from colonial rule, the fight for the emancipation of women gained momentum. Many women came to be accepted as great patriots and freedom fighters in there own right. They began to organise themselves to fight for their rights and the government came to recognise that it could no longer ignore their demand for equality. The list of women who contributed to the movement for equality is unlimited. To name just a few, Sarojini Naidu, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Aruna Asaf Ali and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur took up the fight on several fronts. This book is an attempt to focus on the long and arduous struggle by women for their rights and for equality. That they were successful to a large extent is the fact that a woman even became the Prime Minister of India. Students of history, teachers, gender activists and all those interested in the movement that led to the liberation and emancipation of women in India will find this book not only useful for its archival material but also because of the spotlight it places on their efforts. ..more  Price: Rs. 250.00  Buy Now Annie Basent avem Bharat ka Rashtriya Andolan S. L. Nagouri हिंदी हिंदी ..more  Price: Rs. 400.00  Buy Now Tribal Girls : Aspiration, Achievement and Frustration Damina Choudhary Indian society at large is hierarchical, stratified and deficient in vertical mobility. As such, several schemes of tribal development are not making the desired headway despite the clamour by educational planners and politicians. After Independence, several government and non- government agencies have come forward to shoulder this responsibility with adequate budgetary provisions but yet the graph of education, especially among tribal girls, fails to show a significant rise. The problem needs a fresh look and the present book is a welcome step in this direction. It makes a comparative study of tribal and non-tribal girls reading in the same school, their performance and their aspirations on standardised tests. The author has successfully laid bare the threads of pressure that play a significant role in fanning the aspirations of girl students and has unravelled the various layers of frustration when they find that their aspirations are out of their normal reach. This cycle of aspirations and frustration is perceptible in both sections of girls though it is mild among tribal girls. The book is, no doubt, a comparative study of the aspiration and frustration among tribal and non-tribal girls and the findings will be useful and beneficial in planning educational programmes. Educationists, psychologists, policy planners, teachers, NGOs and all those having an interest in tribal affairs and development will surely find it helpful and gain a rare insight into the mental make up of tribal girl students and their non tribal counterparts. ..more  Price: Rs. 650.00  Buy Now Handbook of Sociology Leena Parmar A society, and consequently, a nation, cannot be strong and self-reliant unless it continuously studies itself, identifies its weaknesses, traces its roots, and tries to weed out any detrimental factors that may be creeping into it, obviously. History has many instances of great civilisations crumbling into the sands of oblivion because their societies could not overcome the termites of decadence that ate through the social fabric. Once society falls, a nation falls and once a nation falls, civilisations disappear. This book is a straight and simple attempt to delve into society; the society as it exists today. Social evils and social ills have not only to be contained, they have to be wiped out. But to do that, one must “know”. This is just one small effort at attaining that “know”, or wisdom, in more appropriate parlance. The coverage includes diverse aspects of society like the formation of social groups, how culture influences them, the role of a unified family, the stratification of the community and also how social control and education raises the level of a community or society. ..more  Price: Rs. 450.00  Buy Now Women and Problems of Gender Discrimination H. C. Upreti ,  Nandini Upreti This book attempts to highlight the struggle of Indian women. Many of them face unequal relationships throughout their life, from family to polity, still the level of consciousness about these disparities varies according to their socio-economic background. Educated urban employed women are found to be more conscious about socio-economic inequalities. They have been the major beneficiaries of the development process. While illiterate poor rural women and slum dwellers have their own struggle against socio-economic deprivations, it seems that women from sub-urban groups have by and large been marginalised by the development process. After independence, successive governments have passed social legislation to control social evils, yet social customs and behaviour responsible for these evils have not changed significantly. Social legislation equipped the government to fight against females infanticide, child marriage, dowry harassment and widow burning; but they too have failed to change prevalent customs, superstitions and social taboos, and these practices by and large remain and integral part of Indian social behaviour. Along with social legislation, an well-organised mass movement is also required to change the Indian mindset. Universal suffrage and political participation have so far played a limited role in improving the socio – economic status of marginalised women. This volume will motivate students and researchers to make serious efforts to understand issues and problems being confronted by women at different levels of Indian society. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Womens Status and Social Change Shakuntala Devi A Frenchman once wrote that the best way to judge the position of a nation was to find out the status of its women. In recent years, women in India have broken free of the traditional image that kept them rooted in the past and joined hands with modernity if different walks of life. Today, they have made good politically and in other departments of national life and human activity. Our Statute Books contain many a legislation that has rid them of several legal shackles and thus helped to raise their status. They have been given the chance to develop according to their own ability and genius and many of them have taken advantage of the new opportunities and thus demonstrated afresh their inner worth. This book shows and analyses the social changes that have come about consequent to the new role of women and how they have conquered (if that is the word) it. It will be a source of enlightenment to those who wish to discover the new mindset that our women have acquired to keep pace with the social challenges that arose during the latter half of the twentieth century and how they are preparing to face the twenty-first. ..more  Price: Rs. 995.00  Buy Now Gender Violence Astha Bhanot Gender Violation is one of the most challenging problems of our times for the entire world. This book highlights the contemporary challenges to women rights in order to illustrate the moral justification of and limits to privacy regulation, and the need t ..more  Price: Rs. 450.00  Buy Now Manvadhikar Aur Mahila Vimarsh Dharamveer Chandel HINDI ..more  Price: Rs. 600.00  Buy Now Human Rights of Women P. Iyer The last century saw a great leap forward in the struggle for women’s human rights. In many countries women won the right to take part in government, though in some, they did not. Many women acquired an economic independence and social status unthinkable a hundred years earlier. A few countries have adopted constitutions or legislation banning discrimination on the grounds of gender. But women are still treated as second-class citizens all over the world. By the end of the last century, women comprised two-thirds of the world’s one million illiterate people. Women continue to bear the double burden of work and childcare, to own and earn less than men, and to be excluded from making decisions over their own bodies. Women are struggling to help their families and communities survive poverty and armed conflict. And in many countries, they still contend with violence in the family, in the community and from the government. The chapters in this book cover the subject comprehensively. They are: • How women’s Human Rights Evolved • The Definition of Women’s Rights • Women’s Human Rights and Violence • Work and Women’s Human Rights • Human Rights Incorporates Crimes Against Women • Gender in Human Rights Programmes • Human Rights of Immigrant Youth • Women’s Rights and Democracy • Human Rights Problem of the Girl Child • Women Behind Bars • Human Rights of Muslim Women • Role of Grassroots Organisations This book will be useful for all researchers and teachers in the field of political science, women’s studies and human rights. ..more  Price: Rs. 650.00  Buy Now Violence Against Women M. Chatterjee Violence against women is a burning topic of the day as instances of the continuation of this barbaric practice flow in from various parts of the world. Despite the massive progress in human activity and the development of human civilisation to a level never attained in the past, violence against women in some form or the other continues. Laws exist to prevent it and also lay down stringent punishment for the culprits. Yet, most of them go scot-free and rarely are they punished. This book traces the treatment of women over the centuries and the treatment meted out to them by their male counterparts. It analyses the philosophy and the motivations behind such treatment and explains in vivid detail the sordid behaviour they are exposed to. A comprehensive overview of the problem is presented in the chapters that include: ¨ Women, Power and Violence ¨ Violence Against Women ¨ Battered Women and Violent Men ¨ Mental Thinking of Abused Women ¨ Women Survivors of Domestic Violence as Service Users ¨ Rivalry, Rape and Manhood ¨ Breaking the Silence in Literacy ¨ Bridging the Divide Between Literacy and Therapy ¨ Violence, Silence and the Memory of Witches ¨ Challenging the Justice System for Women ¨ Innovation and Social Change for Women Welfare Students, researchers and teachers of Sociology, Psychology and Women’s Studies will find this book of immense value in the pursuit of their own work in these fields. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Feminism and Gender Equality M.Chatterjee WITH emancipation and education, and the awakening among women that spread to all parts of the world, it was but natural for feminism to grow into a struggle for women’s human rights. This book outlines the beginnings of the ferment of women’s liberation and feminism. It approaches the subject from all angles and puts it in the right perspective. Written in a lucid and concise style, it explains what feminism is all about, what are its linkages to human rights and humanism, how it evolved, how it grew from strength to strength despite pressures and obstacles set by vested interests and how it developed into a world-wide movement that finally came to be described as the women’s liberation movement, or women’s lib. The chapters include Issues in Feminism and Humanism, Cultural Basis of Feminism, Economic Basis of Feminism, Problems of Feminism and Marxism, Radical Feminism, Feminism’s Changing Role in Liberalism, The Age of Enlightenment and Feminism, Feminism and Existentialism and The New Feminist Moral Vision. This comprehensive coverage will make this book useful for Indian scholars, educationists, researchers in women’s studies and sociologists to hone their own perceptions of feminism. ..more  Price: Rs. 600.00  Buy Now Women and Gender Issues R. C. Hiremath This book discusses the various issues women face in their march towards equality. The prevalence of male attitudes, generally called male chauvinism, still results in some women in some countries relegated to a second-class status. The reasons for this, the issues that have cropped up, and a well-reasoned and logical conclusion form the basis of this book. The chapters reveal the various issues that are discussed. They include Challenges Facing the Modern Feminist; Women’s Liberation and Criminality; Women’s Access to the Mainstream; The Nature of Feminism; Advantage or Obstacle; Separatist Feminism; Are Women Unable to Participate in Success?; Feminine Sensibility; Gender Stereotype Sensitivity; Justice and Gender Equality; Women Prisoners and Domestic Violence; Women and the ‘Culture of Terror’; Love and the Intellectual Women; Rape as a Means of Male Domination; and Father’s Place in the Child’s Life. ..more  Price: Rs. 995.00  Buy Now Women’s Empowerment in India S. Nayak ,  J. Nair This book traces the evolution of Indian women through the mists of history to the present efforts to empower them and give them their rightful place in society. Attempts in this direction have not been dramatic or aggressive but rather after the old Indian fashion of combining chance with continuity. It was Gandhiji who brought a dramatic chance among our women, when at his bidding they came out in large numbers from the shelter of their homes to take their part in the struggle for India's freedom. Once the old shackles were removed, it was no longer possible to replace them in the same way. Attempts were no doubt made to go back, but they were bound to fail. This book brings much information, which will enlighten the reader's mind and give him and idea of what our women have done and are doing. ..more  Price: Rs. 550.00  Buy Now Issues in Feminism Leela Desai Till about the middle of the seventeenth century, it was the universal assumption that women belonged to the home as wives and mothers. Their entire life was devoted to the home and they remained within its confines. They had no rights over property; no control over inheritance, no control over custody, and no right to bring a civil suit. They did not even have the right to vote. However, with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, and other historical circumstances, the isolation of women in the domestic sphere began to erode. The rights that they had been deprived of became central issues in the nineteenth century women’s rights movement. This book not only delineates those rights but also discusses those issues that became part and parcel of vigorous debates in modern feminist theory. Each issue has been articulated, explained, discussed in detail and then put in the right perspective of the modern woman who stands shoulder to shoulder with her male counterpart and equal in all respects. The chapters say it all. They include Feminism and Marxism; Liberal Feminism; Cultural Feminism; Feminism and Romanticism; Pornography, Sex Discrimination and Women; Feminism and Freudianism; and Feminism and Postmodernism. The in-depth evaluation of each issue and the detail with which logical conclusions have been drawn add a new dimension to the entire concept of feminism. General readers and teachers, students and researchers in Women’s Studies and Sociology will find this book of great help. They will not only be able to get a better and deeper insight into the various issues that confronted, and still confront in some measure, the status of women in various parts of the world, but will also be able to enlarge their own viewpoints on the subject. ..more  Price: Rs. 525.00  Buy Now Feminism and Its Strategies Leela Desai THE feminism that we know today has its roots in Western society. Gaining a foothold after the First World War, it dveloped momentum during the days of the Great Depression and progressed still further after the Second World War. The women's liberation movement took shape in the United States of America and every shade of feminist activity was reflected in it. The concept is still prevalent strongly in the U.S.A. and Britain. This book analyses the various aspects of feminism, and its relation with politics, capitalism,Marxism, etc. Chapter I provides a Marxist Feminist Analysis, Chapter II discusses issues like Femininity, Masculinity and Sexual Practice, while Chapter III probes the ideology of Feminismand the Culture of Gender in various societies. Chapter IV takes up the issue of Gender and Class in the Educational System and Chapter V relates Marxism with Gender and the Division of Labour. Chapter VI discusses Women's Oppression and the Family while Chapter VII, the last, discusses Capitalism and Women's Liberation. These chapters, thus, provide a deep analysis of the issues involved in feminismand feminist movements. This book will surely prove useful to sociologists, students of feminist sociology and those interested in learning more about the development of feminism and its role in the march of civilisation and society. ..more

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