E-Digest
Backgrounder on the Women’s Movement in India
-by Shubha Chacko
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Preface
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Introduction
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I.
Contextualising the Struggle
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Defining Through Struggle
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Facing Resistance and Denial
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Reclaiming History
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II.
Our Movement, Ourselves
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Ideological Positions Within the Movement
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The Left and Feminism
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Postmodernism and Feminism
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Differing Perceptions
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The Diversity Within
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Constituents Of the Women’s Movement
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Women’s Studies
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Beijing Conference
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III.
Tracing the Path of the Struggle
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The Road To Independence
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Post Independence
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Coming Into Its Own
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Landmarks
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Exploring the Issues In the Struggle
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IV.
Violence Against Women, Women Against Violence
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Rape
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Dowry
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Home Truths : Domestic Violence
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Prostitution and the Women’s Movement
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Missing Girls : Sex Pre-Selection
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What We Do To Our Girls?
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Sexual Harassment at Work
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V.
The Wrong Arm of the Law?
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Women and Legal Reform
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Women’s Rights as Human Rights
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Women in Prisons
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Various Laws Affecting Women
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VI.
The Body Politics : Women’s Health
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Contraceptives and Reproductive Choice
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VII.
Other Engagements
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The Anti-Arrack Movement
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Joint Forest Management
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A Roof of One’s Own : Women and Housing
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The Media and the Women’s Question
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VIII.
The Politics of Identity
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Women and Nationalism
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Culture and Religion
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Uniform Civil Code
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Sati
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Multiple Identities
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Mandal and Women
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Women and Sexuality
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Women and the State
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Towards a Feminist Theory of the Post Colonial State
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Women and the Democratic State
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The Political Woman
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Women and the Nuclear State
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Women, Development and the State
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Women and Work/Women’s Work
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Women and the Labour Movement
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Women in the Informal Sector
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Just Add Women and Stir? Five Year Plans and Women
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Income Generation and Micro-Credit Schemes
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Sapping Women: The Structural Adjustment Programme
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Women and Environment
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XI.
The Future : Looking Forward
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Indentifying Challenges
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The Challenge of Fundamentalism
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The Challenge of Globalisation
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The Challenge of Cooption
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Blurring of Lines
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In Lieu of a Conclusion
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Page Designed by Nalini, 2003.
Source: Changing the Stream -
Backgrounder on the Women’s Movement in India
by Shubha Chacko, 2001.
