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Gender, Value, and Signification: Women and Television in Kerala
Usha V.T. - eSocialSciences - 2006
In a context where despite high levels of literacy and economic independence, women in Kerala are still expected to … surveys the impact of prime time television's impact on a sample of urban of rural women. Identifying television as an … accessible media in the private sphere for women, the study critically evaluates the content of serials and commercials targeting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341706
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Affirming Diversities, Resisting Divisiveness: Seventh National Conference on Women’s Movements in India
Gopal, Meena - eSocialSciences - 2007
The Seventh National Conference of the Women’s Movements in India was unique in several ways. For one, women’s groups worked relentlessly over the last eight years to make this conference happen. Since the last conference at Ranchi in 1998, most people believed that the series of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250485
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Flying with the Crane-Recapturing KMVS’s Ten-Year Journey
Ramachandran, Vimala; Saihjee, Aarti - eSocialSciences - 2009
their history, context, evolution, and experiences since its emergence in 1989. Additionally, it is also an attempt to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543112
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Values and Meanings of Citizenship
Kabeer, Naila - eSocialSciences - 2008
What does citizenship mean to poor and socially excluded people? How do their views help us understand and analyse what 'inclusive' citizenship means?
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699048
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Elements of Effective Central Banking: Theory, Practice, and History
Goodfriend, Marvin - eSocialSciences - 2007
monetary history in the United States helped to shape monetary policy practice for the better are explained. [Foundation Day …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170137
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From Theory to Practice: Translating Research into Health Outcomes
Medicine, PLoS - eSocialSciences - 2008
Commenting on recent research articles which look at the potential health benefits of behaviour change, the PLoS Medicine Editors say that publication of the findings of such research is only one part of the behaviour-change process.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487837
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Archiving the Nation –State in Feminist Praxis: A South Asian Perspective
Chakravarti, Uma - eSocialSciences - 2009
This essay mainly examines the relationship between feminism and nationalism as a point from which it looks at South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543102
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The Dance of Ideas: Dialectical Relationship between Feminism and Philosophy
Poonacha, Veena - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper attempts to delineate the dialectical relationship between feminism and philosophy, and begins by tracing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487673
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'Bed and Board' in Lieu of Salary: Women and Girl Children Domestics in Post Partition Calcutta (1951-1981)
Chakravarty, Deepita; Chakravarty, Ishita - eSocialSciences - 2010
The present study attempts to see how a particular labour market, that is, domestic service, a traditionally male domain, became segregated both by gender and age in post partition West Bengal (WB) and mainly in its capital city Calcutta. [CESS WP 84].
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540528
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Under the Thumb of History? Political institutions and the Scope for Action
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945562