Women's empowerment and gender insecurities/ a South Asian perspective
Chakraborty, Ranjita [ed.]
- Kolkata: Levant Books, 2009.
- 205 p
Section I: \Cbmen's Empowerment 1. Interrogating the Challenges to Women's Empowerment Through Participation — Ranjita Chakraborty 2. Gender and Political Empowerment: Experiences of Women in Local Governance — Mahbuba Nasreen 3. Exercising Poor Women's Rights and The Paradox of Social Capitals: A Case of Proshika in a Dhaka Slum — Mohammed Kammzzaman and Fatema Mahmuda 4. Women in Bhutan: Present Status and Challenges Ahead — Maitreyee Chotidhury Section II: Gender Insecurities 5. Captive Subjects: Gender-based Violence, Culture and the Crises of International Hiunan Rights Interventions — Oishik Sircar 6. Missing Girl Child — A Shocking Decline in North Bengal: Some Observations — Ratna Roy Sanyal 7. Working Mothers and Child Survival: A Critical Exploration of the West Bengal Experience — Tannistha Samanta 8. Young Women and their Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS —A menla Nuken X