About the Book
The dominant development model, primarily conceived as a West-centric enterprise to modernize the post-colonial societies, did not realize the promised utopia of improved quality of life for all. Instead, increased poverty, economic and gender inequalities and degradation of environment have emerged as the accompanying fallouts of development policies and practices during the past half century.
With this as a backdrop, the book relooks at development, particularly globalization-driven neo-liberal development, through a gender lens. Raising some basic theoretical and ideological questions, the essays address issues like economic and political empowerment, state-market-civil society interface, MDGs, challenges emanating from the socio-cultural structures/norms, gender-blind/neutral state policies, violence/armed conflicts and the sustainability of environment.
The book will be valuable for researchers, teachers, students, civil society activists and policy planners engaged in framing development policies and practices.
Contents
1. Women and Development / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
2. Women and Globalization / Mary Grey
3. Gandhi and Nehru / Lloyd I. Rudolph
4. Interrogating Development from a Gender Perspective / Asha Kaushik
5. Globalization and Economic Empowerment of Women / Kanta Ahuja
6. Economic Fallout of Globalization for Indian Women / D.D. Narula
7. Development, Deprivation and Gender Equality / M.P. Dube
8. Development and Women’s Political Participation / Leela Yadava
9. Women Empowerment: Political Dimension / Prem Krishna Sharma
10. Globalization and the Gender Imperatives in Environment / Kiran Soni Gupta
11. Gender Biases in Caste- and Kinship-based Organizations / P.S. Verma
12. Globalization-Islamization Interface / Surendra Nath Kaushik
13. Women’s NGOs in the Context of Globalization / Deepa Mathur
14. Globalization, Media and Women / Urvashi Dev Rawal
15. Millennium Development Goals and Women / Sandeep Gupta and Ashlesha Kaushik
16. Millennium Development Goal 3 / Prerna Puri
17. MDGs, SAARC and Women / Shashi Upadhyay
18. Millennium Development Goals and Women’s Health in Rajasthan / Meeta Singh
19. Globalization, MDGs and Women / Navneet Kumar Verma
20. Millennium Development Goals, Armed Conflicts and Women’s Rights in North-East India / Manju Singh
About the Author / Editor
Asha Kaushik is Professor of Political Science and former Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. She has taught Political Science for four decades. Her specialization is in the fields of political theory, gender studies, critical theory, Gandhian thought, Indian politics and development studies. She has published ten books and over five dozen research papers in national and international journals.
