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Since the 1970s, the international disability rights movement, the United Nations and national governments across the world have attempted to ameliorate the status of the disabled population through a range of legislative and policy measures primarily in the areas of health, education, employment, accessible environments and social security. While the discourse in the disability sector in India has shifted from charity and welfare to human rights and entitlements, disability studies — as an interdisciplinary academic terrain that focuses on the contributions, experiences, history and culture of persons with disabilities — has not yet taken root. This volume collates some of the most rece...
Ram Narayan Prasad, b. 1941, Professor of Public Administration, Mizoram University.
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.
Comprises summary of decisions of four international conferences on the role of women in development.
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This unique volume brings together the personal accounts of 17 scholars and activists who have initiated and/or nurtured centres for women’s studies. The heterogeneous group represented here covers the entire range of the women’s studies family in India. The contributors highlight the inroads that women’s studies has made to the knowledge base in the social and material sciences and where it has inspired a shift in policy or a change in curriculum.
Contributed articles on womens' studies in India and their representation in Indic literature on completion of 25 years of the Women's Studies & Development Centre, University of Delhi.