Changing the Stream: Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
by Shubha Chacko
A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
This publication outlines the nature and constituents of the Movement, as also its engagement with the State, with various institutions and its bid to influence and rewrite agendas. It captures the various strands that make up the women's movement and proceeds to look at where we are now before finally setting out some of the challenges facing us.
Table of Contents
I Contextualising The Struggle
II Our Movement, Ourselves
III Tracing the Path of the Struggle
IV Violence Against Women, Women Against Violence
V The Wrong Arm of the Law?
VI The Body Politic: Women's Health
VII Other Engagements
VIII The Politics of Identity
IX Women and the State
X Women, Development and the state
XI Women and Environment
XII The Future: Looking forward