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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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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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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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Prevalence, Distribution, and Impact of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Latin America, China, and India: A 10/66 Population-Based Study
Sosa, Ana Luisa; Albanese, Emiliano - eSocialSciences - 2012
Rapid demographic ageing is a growing public health issue in many low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs). Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a construct frequently used to define groups of people who may be at risk of developing dementia, crucial for targeting preventative interventions....
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Pesticide Applications in Bt Cotton Farms: Issues Relating to Environment and Non-Tariff Barriers
Lalitha, N.; K, Viswanathan P - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper is undertaken to examine various aspects of farm level adoption of Bt cotton in Gujarat as well as explore issues relating to environment and non-tariff barriers affecting the cotton trade of India. [Working paper No. 198]. URL:[http://www.gidr.ac.in/pdf/Working%20Paper%20198.pdf].
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J - eSocialSciences - 2012
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore important to analyze differences not just between the foreign-born and U.S-born, but also across...
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