Overview
- Unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women's empowerment
- Seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise
- Aims to generate substantial intellectual resources for stimulating churning of interest and enthusiasm
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This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women's empowerment. Drawing upon contributions from serving and retired academics with substantial experience of NGO-run women's care and justice activities, it seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise involving several hugely intractable entitlements and violations South Asian women have experienced in historical and contemporary times. The book aims to generate substantial intellectual resources for yet another stimulating churning of interest and enthusiasm among policy makers, academics, social activists, development functionaries, students and inclined laypersons concerned with women's studies in general and the multifaceted ordeal of women's empowerment in particular.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Asok Kumar Sarkar is Professor of Social Work in Visva-Bharati, India, and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development-Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace-Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co-Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of “Journal of Social Work and Social Development,” a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal, and served from 2010 to 2017.
Satyajit Das Gupta is Director, Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Counselling (Affiliated to the Calcutta University), Legal Aid Services, West Bengal, and Member, Ethics Committee, KolGO Trg, a conglomerate of several regional and national medical institutions and establishments. He has been associated with the Calcutta University’s Women’s Studies Research Centre, Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal, and the Women’s Justice Initiative of the Human Rights Law Network, India. He also coordinated the Karachi-Calcutta-Dhaka Linkage Project on “Processes of Unprotected Work in South Asia for the International Institute of Social History,” Amsterdam. His publications include Mukher Kathay Itihas [History by Words of Mouth, Edited, 1997 & 2019] and Final Report on the DFLFLASWEB-DIHR Study Tour on Comparative Aspects of Public Interest Litigation in India and China (2012).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Entitlements and Violations
Editors: Asok Kumar Sarkar, Satyajit Das Gupta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7538-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7537-9Published: 30 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7540-9Due: 13 August 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-7538-6Published: 29 July 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Development Economics, Development Studies, Gender Studies, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development