ISBN: 9788179756454 - women in moutains continuity and change (5 resultados)

Condición: New. pp. 238 Map.

Condición: New. pp. 238, Map.

Condición: New. pp. 238.

N.A. Condición: New. ISBN:9788179756454,238pp.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction. 1. Participation of rural women in agriculture and livestock rearing in hills of Uttarakhand/Bijay Kumar Khanduri and B.M. Kumar. 2. Clothing and textiles: effective means for empowering mountain women/Pooja Bhatt and Shahnaz Jahan. 3. Promotion of Muga silk processing in Uttarakhand to empower rural women/Alka goel and Arpan Saxena. 4. Women in the political process of India: issues and concerns/M.R. Biju. 5. Rural women and reproductive health: myth and reality/Ila Bisht and Jyoti Joshi. 6. Financing patterns of women entrepreneurs in Garhwal/Vimay Kumar Saini, Ravinder Kumar Saini and Hemlata Saini. 7. Relationship between environment and women: a sociological framework of women in mountain region/Rajni Jassal. 8. Ecotourism and the lepcha women of dzonqu, North Sikkim/Charisma K. Lepcha. 9. Women in Naga hills of North East India/Daili Neli. 10. Disaster management and gender/Anuradha. 11. Impact of 2010 Leh cloudburst/Revnath. 12. Socio-economic issues and challenges to empower mountainous women through educational and technological interventions: literature review/Dimple Bagauli, Balam Singh and Darshana Pathak. 13. Women and recent disaster in Himalayan region (Uttarakhand)/Anil Kumar Saini. 14. Role of continuing education programme in empowerment of rural women: a study of Uttarakhand/Deepak Paliwal. 15. Analysis of the women role in agriculture in hill rural regions of Uttarakhand: problems challenges and opportunities/Prashant Kandari and Rajesh Chandra Paliwal. (5 Articles in Hindi) There is a considerable ambiguity about the nature and status of women in Indian society. On the one hand, she is believed to represent power and evokes both fear and reverence. On the other hand, she is largely appreciated for her beauty and hardwork. In traditional India, women were supposed to be supreme in the household domains, whereas in the public domain men were supposed to be supreme. A woman is identified as a mother a wife, daughter-n-law or a daughter but she is not identified as an independent person. Women constitute almost half of the population, perform nearly two-third of its work hours receive one tenth of the world's income and own less than one hundredth of the world property. The book Women in Mountains: Continuity and Change is a modest attempt to present a synthesized form of the studies on women. The paper/articles are general, analytical and empirical in nature and have dealt with various issues releated to women in mountain region. The book provides useful and interesting papers/articles on various important issues pertaining to women and gender issues which will be very useful for the students, research scholars and the learned communities working on the aforesaid issue. (jacket).…