The Indian Woman

Résumé du livre

PART ISOCIAL, ECONOMIC ANDDEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE1. With All of us Together, There is Hope: Profiles of Five Women Activists2. The Sociology of Women and WorkJ. P. Singh 3. Women's Participation in Economic Activities in India4. The Girl Child is Not a Lesser Child5. Girl Child: a Study in Familial and Societal Negligence6. The Practice of Widow Remarriage in South India7. The Litmus Test (The Condition of WorkingWomen in Industries)8. Reproduction and Rural Women's EducationalUnder-development: an Empirical Exploration9. Women's Movement in India and an Anti-RapeCampaign10. Women, Technology and Development: Some ObservationsPART IIHISTORICAL AND LITERARY PROFILE11. Changing Role and Status of the Indian Woman12. Matriliny and Mother Right in the Early SouthIndian Society13. The Devadasi System in South India14. Gender Relationships in Guru Nanak's Adi Granth15, The Metaphors of Womanhood in Indian Literature16. A Critique of the Portrayal of Women in Hindi Fiction17. The Woman in India and the West: a ComparativeConspectusPART IIIARCHIVES-DATA AND REFERENCES18. The Indian Woman: a Statistical Panorama19. The Indian Woman: a Select BibliographyInd