The question of matriarchate as female dominance, remains unresolved. While non materialist anthropologists dismissed it outright, socialist scholars accepted it as a stage in social evolution. If matrifocal clans or collective mothering oncet provided power and assistance for raising a human...

Women's Equality in Transition: Intersectionality in Northern Ireland's/ North of Ireland's Equality Legislation Women have been invisible in mainstream analyses of the Northern Irish conflict. The prodigious literature is uninformed by gender analysis. These absences have discursive and...

The issue of feminization of crime provides a vantage point in delineating the theories of crime, criminals, penology and sociology of law.

This paper will examine the implications of the colonial construction of criminality for our understanding of criminology and gender today.

First, on the basis of primary data collected in a rural setting in the State of Orissa, an attempt has been made in this paper to compare the socioeconomic status of male- and female- headed households. Subsequently the differences in the use of resources (time and money) between male-headed...

How do queer women then claim rights provided by the constitution and international conventions when their identity per se is not included in the legal regime and if such an inclusion might be counterproductive would be questions raised in this paper. The paper also hopes to bring in discussions...

Obituary: Sharmila Rege (1964 to 2013)

Neera Desai, a pioneer of Women's Studies in India, the first and founding director of the Research Centre for Women’s Studies at the SNDT University, Mumbai passed away late tonight in Mumbai. She was 84.

The Budget is an important tool in the hands of the state for affirmative action for improvement of gender relations through reduction of gender gap in the development process. It can help to reduce economic inequalities, between men and women as well as between the rich and the poor [NCAS,...

She will always remain a role model for many of us--- a competent professional and a compassionate thinker who believed in ushering in social change that can reorganise inequalities in India.