Women's livelihood rights: recasting citizenship for development/
Women's livelihood rights: recasting citizenship for development/
edited by Sumi Krishna
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2007.
- xiii, 404 p.
1. Recasting Citizenship for Women's Livelihood and Development: An Overview / Sumi Krishna --
I. Recognition and Resource Rights --
2. Whose Rights? Women in Pastoralist and Shifting Cultivation Communities: A Continuing Struggle for Recognition and Rights to Livelihood Resources / Sagari R. Ramdas and Nitya S. Ghotge --
3. Transgressing Political Spaces and Claiming Citizenship: The Case of Women Kendu Leaf-Pluckers and the Community Forestry Federation, Ranpur, Orissa / Neera M. Singh --
4. Legal Identity and Natural Resource Management: The Foraging Irula Women of Killai, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu / P. Thamizoli and P. Ignatius Prabhakar --
II. Work and Employment Strategies --
5. Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands: Livelihood Strategies of Women-Headed, Immigrant Households in the Charlands of the River Damodar, West Bengal / Gopa Samanta and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt --
6. Migrant Tribal Women's Struggle for Livelihood: A Study of the Employment Assurance Scheme in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh / Sandeep Joshi --
7. Restructuring the Employment Guarantee Scheme: Efforts to Provide Livelihood Opportunities through Women's SHGs and Horticulture in Maharashtra / Chhaya Datar --
III. The Challenge of Democratic Governance --
8. In the Name of the Community: Gender, Development and Governance in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra and Vandana Upadhyay --
9. The Reinforcement of Gender Stereotypes through Modern Education: The Case of Mizoram / B. Lakshmi --
IV. Restructuring Institutional Systems --
10. Mainstreaming Gender in Agricultural Research and Extension: How Do We Move beyond Efficiency Arguments? / Meghana Kelkar --
11. Women and Water Policy: Issues and Alternatives / Seema Kulkarni --
12. Do Property Rights in Land Ensure Greater Participation of Women in Resource Management? Notes from a Study in Rural Karnataka / M. Indira. 13. 'Just' Laws are not Enough: A Note on the Common Civil Code, Marriage and Inheritance in Goa / Shaila Desouza --
V. Women's Collective Agency, Development and Citizenship --
14. The Sangha Mane: The Translation of an Internal Need into a Physical Space / Vinalini Mathrani and Vani Periodi --
15. SHGs as Change Agents in Enhancing the Political Participation of Women in Local Self-Governance / Mandakini Pant --
16. Exploring Linkages between Citizenship, Livelihood Security and Gender Equality: Planned Interventions and Outcomes in Rajasthan / Shobhita Rajagopal --
VI. Dignity in Struggle: Lessons from the Past --
17. Women's Development under Patriarchy: The Experience of the Sathins / Rajesh Ramakrishnan, Viren Lobo and Depinder Kapur.
9780761936008
Women in development
Women's rights
Equality
Political science
Social sciences
1. Recasting Citizenship for Women's Livelihood and Development: An Overview / Sumi Krishna --
I. Recognition and Resource Rights --
2. Whose Rights? Women in Pastoralist and Shifting Cultivation Communities: A Continuing Struggle for Recognition and Rights to Livelihood Resources / Sagari R. Ramdas and Nitya S. Ghotge --
3. Transgressing Political Spaces and Claiming Citizenship: The Case of Women Kendu Leaf-Pluckers and the Community Forestry Federation, Ranpur, Orissa / Neera M. Singh --
4. Legal Identity and Natural Resource Management: The Foraging Irula Women of Killai, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu / P. Thamizoli and P. Ignatius Prabhakar --
II. Work and Employment Strategies --
5. Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands: Livelihood Strategies of Women-Headed, Immigrant Households in the Charlands of the River Damodar, West Bengal / Gopa Samanta and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt --
6. Migrant Tribal Women's Struggle for Livelihood: A Study of the Employment Assurance Scheme in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh / Sandeep Joshi --
7. Restructuring the Employment Guarantee Scheme: Efforts to Provide Livelihood Opportunities through Women's SHGs and Horticulture in Maharashtra / Chhaya Datar --
III. The Challenge of Democratic Governance --
8. In the Name of the Community: Gender, Development and Governance in Arunachal Pradesh / Deepak K. Mishra and Vandana Upadhyay --
9. The Reinforcement of Gender Stereotypes through Modern Education: The Case of Mizoram / B. Lakshmi --
IV. Restructuring Institutional Systems --
10. Mainstreaming Gender in Agricultural Research and Extension: How Do We Move beyond Efficiency Arguments? / Meghana Kelkar --
11. Women and Water Policy: Issues and Alternatives / Seema Kulkarni --
12. Do Property Rights in Land Ensure Greater Participation of Women in Resource Management? Notes from a Study in Rural Karnataka / M. Indira. 13. 'Just' Laws are not Enough: A Note on the Common Civil Code, Marriage and Inheritance in Goa / Shaila Desouza --
V. Women's Collective Agency, Development and Citizenship --
14. The Sangha Mane: The Translation of an Internal Need into a Physical Space / Vinalini Mathrani and Vani Periodi --
15. SHGs as Change Agents in Enhancing the Political Participation of Women in Local Self-Governance / Mandakini Pant --
16. Exploring Linkages between Citizenship, Livelihood Security and Gender Equality: Planned Interventions and Outcomes in Rajasthan / Shobhita Rajagopal --
VI. Dignity in Struggle: Lessons from the Past --
17. Women's Development under Patriarchy: The Experience of the Sathins / Rajesh Ramakrishnan, Viren Lobo and Depinder Kapur.
9780761936008
Women in development
Women's rights
Equality
Political science
Social sciences