Indian Women/ broken words, distant dreams Mukherjee,Sanchari Roy

I. Women's Studies: Ideology and Introspection
1. New Directions for Women's Studies
Malini Bhattacharya
2. Loss of Socialist Vision and Options before
the Women's Movement
Gabriele Dietrich
3. Feminism and Empowerment in an
Indian Context: A Critical Analysis
Subhadra Mitra Channa
II. History and Social Situation of Women
4. Some Feminine Symbols in the Sculptures
of Ancient India
Mandira Bhattacharya
5. Nurseries of the Raj
NupurDas
6. The Vanishing Half: Gender Inequalities in India
Anish Kumar Mukhopadhyay
7. Consequences of Gender Inequality in Development
Lipi Mukhopadhyay
8. Battered Women: Implications and
Empowerment Strategies
Sneh Lata Tandon
9. The Hidden Enemy: The Mechanism of
Power in Gender Violence
Raujita Chakraborty
III. Women's Work Participation and Women's Empowerment
10. Economic Empowerment of Women in India:
Some Emerging Issues
Mukiil Mukherjee
11. Gender Issues in Forestry and Land Use
Durgadas Mukhopadhyay
12. Labour, Work Participation & Empowerment:
Women in the Plantation Sector of North Bengal
Satichari Roy Mukherjee
13. Women in the Unorganised Sector:
An Economic Perspective
Neeti Tandoii and Shefali Berry
14. Financing Women through Self Help Groups
- Beneficiary-perceptions
Samirendra Nath Dhar
15. Women's Empowerment through Self Help Groups:
Situational Study of SHG's in Deogarh, Jharkhand
Pamela Singla
IV. Gender Positions in Regional Situations
16. Social Situation of Muslim Girl Child in a
Village of Cooch Behar in West Bengal
- Some Empirical Observations
Rokaiya Begum
17. Social Background and Changing Priorities
of the Women Students of North Bengal University
Sanjay K Roy
18. Rural Women, Education and Empowerment
Pradip K. Datta