Gender and Development in India: the Indian Scenario

Gender and Development the Indian Scenario, is a book basically intended for the Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate students of the Course-Gender and Development. It indeed gives an immense pleasure to share that this can be a text-book for Under-graduate, to orient them with the areas: Gender-role, rearing, discrimination socialization agents • Policies and Programmes for gender Development • Women’s Studies • Women Administrators • Reproductive Health Concerns • Women Enterpreneur and Enterpreneurship • Women and Violence and so on. This book also will be ready reference material for teachers at Under-graduate level. About The Author:- Dr. Anuradha Mathu, is a Faculty Member at the Department of Home Science Extension and Communication. She is teaching both under-graduate and post-graduate students at the Department. She is an ICSSR Indian Council for Social Science Research fellow for her Ph.D. under Women’s Studies. Her area of interest and specialization is: • Extension for Women and Children • Women’s Studies • Reproductive Health concerns of adolescent girls and women • She has several papers published in reputed journals like • Social Welfare • Women’s Link • Communication Studies • University News, and so on • She has organized several Workshops, Seminar, Exbibitions and Educational Tours • She has got these books to her credit • Manual for writing action projects • Imbibing value education various perspectives • Facets of Women’s Development • Women and Enterpreneurship Issues and Challenges. She has always developed reading material and reference materials like annoted bibliography for students at Master Level. At present she is teaching: (1) Gender and Development (2) Development Journalism at Masters Level (3) Evaluation and Monitoring is Extension Programmes (4) Communication process at Under-graduate level. Contents:- Acknowledgements • List of Contributors • SECTION I-GENDER EQUALITY • Gender Equality in India • Gender, Feminism and Women’s Movements • Policies and Programmes for Women in India • Efforts at National and International Level for Gender and Development • Women Studies - A Growing Area of Concern • Women Administrators • Higher Education for Women • Challenges of Women Enterpreneurship • SECTION 2-WOMEN AND VIOLENCE • Women and Violence • Dowry Violence : A Major Problem of Women Race • SECTION 3-REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF WOMEN • Concern for Women Reproductive Health • Counselling Women for Reproductive Health of Women • SECTION 4-USING FOLK FOR GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT • Using Folk to Spread Awareness Regarding HIV/AIDS • Using Puppetry for Spreading Development • To Impart Importance of Girls Education in Assam • Bhavai as a Folk Media for Creating Awareness • Index. The Title 'Gender and Development in India: the Indian Scenario written/authored/edited by Anuradha Mathu', published in the year 2008. The ISBN 9788178356037 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 396 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Women Studies. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-