Narratives from the Women's Studies Family

Recreating Knowledge
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7619-9695-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

This unique volume brings together the personal accounts of 17 scholars and activists who have initiated and/or nurtured centres for women’s studies. The heterogeneous group represented here covers the entire range of the women’s studies family in India. The contributors highlight the inroads that women’s studies has made to the knowledge base in the social and material sciences and where it has inspired a shift in policy or a change in curriculum.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jain, Devaki

Rajput, Pam

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Devaki Jain and Pam Rajput
Foreword - Arun Nigavekar
From Women's Education to Women's Studies - Neera Desai, Vina Mazumdar and Kamalini Bhansali
The Long Struggle for Legitimacy
PART ONE: CASE STUDIES OF UNIVERSITY-BASED WOMEN'S STUDIES CENTRES
Blazing a Quarter Century Trail - Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Research Centre for Women's Studies, SNDT University
From Cycle Shed to Powerhouse - Pam Rajput
Centre for Women's Studies and Development, Panjab University
Integrating Activism and Academics - Chaya Datar
Unit for Women's Studies, Tata Institute if Social Sciences
Catalysts and Deterrents - Susheela Kaushik
Women's Studies and Development Centre, Delhi University
Being a Woman Is Not Enough - Surinder Jetley
Centre for Women's Studies and Development, Banaras Hindu University
A Challenging and Inspiring Journey - Jasodhara Bagchi
School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University
Towards Justice - Bharati Ray
Centre for Women's Studies, Calcutta University
Crossing Boundary Politics - Regina Papa
Centre for Women's Studies, Alagappa University
Taking Wings within a University: Many Struggles, a Few Successes - Amita Verma
Women's Studies Research Centre, Maharaja Sayaji Rao University
From Presence to Identity - Rameshwari Varma
Women's Studies Centre, Mysore University
PART TWO: CASE STUDIES OF WOMEN'S STUDIES CENTRES OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY
Building a Service Station Brick by Brick - Devaki Jain
Institute of Social Studies Trust
Nurturing Links Between Scholarship and Activism - Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies
The Story of Anveshi
The Discourse Between Studies, Institutions and Critical Pedagogy - Kumud Sharma
Centre for Women's Development Studies
PART THREE: INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARS
My Journey into Women's Studies - V S Elizabeth
Full Circle - Leela Gulati
Women's Studies sans Institutions
Oppositional Imaginations - Uma Chakravarti
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jain, Devaki
Devaki Jain, Honorary Fellow St Anne’s College, Oxford University, is Founder and former Director of the Institute of Social Studies Trust, New Delhi, India. She was previously a lecturer at the University of Delhi, a founding member of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN), member of the South Commission (chaired by Julius Nyerere), and of the UN eminent persons group concerned with child soldiers. She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Westville in Durban, Republic of South Africa, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Sussex Universities. She has been a member of State Planning boards and many of the Government of India’s special committees related to gender and its inclusion.