Cover painting credit: © Anuradha Dey (Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India)
A Volume of Essays by participants in the UNITWIN Network on Gender, Culture and People-Centered Development. Editor - Brenda Gael McSweeney; Foreword by Gita Sen; Introduction by Krishno Dey; and a final note called 'Points of View, from the Other Side...' by social activist Aruna Roy.
Essays and Authors:
Engendering Panchayats - Niraja Gopal Jayal
She's in Charge Now: An Examination of Women's Leadership in the Panchayati Raj Institutions in Karnataka - Shiwali Patel
Public Space and Women's Rights: Fine Tuning Democracy - Kumkum Bhattacharya
Srihaswani: a gender case study - Krishno Dey, Chandana Dey and Brenda Gael McSweeney
with Rajashree Ghosh
Hold the pen-plough and till the paper-land: Success story of a movement for education and related issues - Kumar Rana, Liby T. Johnson and Subhrangsu Santra
Poverty of Choice: Gender and Livelihoods in Punjab - Yaaminey Mubayi
A Uniform Civil Code towards Gender Justice - Leila Seth
Missing Daughters: Socio-Economic and Cultural Dynamics of Adverse Sex Ratio in Punjab - Malkit Kaur
Contested Terrains: Gender Justice and Citizenship in South Asia - Shahla Haeri
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