Women of India
Women of India

Author: Harshida Pandit

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1351869922

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The status and position of Indian women have undergone many changes since the high status they enjoyed in the Vedic era yielded to forced suicide during the dark ages, female infanticide, purdah, child marriages and the denial of property and political rights. This book, first published in 1985, provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography to hose years, and the years that followed of the relentless liberation struggle by women on the socio-political and legal fronts.

Modern Indian Family Law
Modern Indian Family Law

Author: Werner Menski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 447

ISBN-13: 1136839852

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This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code.

Women in Local Government
Women in Local Government

Author: Hazel D'Lima

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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Study of socioeconomic background of women and their participation in the local bodies of Maharashtra based on personal interviews.

Voluntary Action and Development
Voluntary Action and Development

Author: Rudolf C. Heredia

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9788170221647

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Study relates to Maharashtra Prabodhan Seva Mandal, a church related voluntary agency founded in 1964 by a Jesuit priest working in Nasik.

Global Critical Race Feminism
Global Critical Race Feminism

Author: Adrien Katherine Wing

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-05

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 081479338X

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An anthology containing some 30 essays which focus on topics including a critique of American feminist legal scholarship; motherhood and work in cultural context; Josephine Baker and the Cold War; the campaign against female circumcision; violence against Aboriginal women in Australia; and "marketization" and the status of women in China. Includes a foreword by social justice activist and professor at the U. of California-Santa Cruz, Angela Y. Davis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR