Women's livelihood rights : recasting citizenship for development / edited by Sumi Krishna. - xiii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recasting Citizenship for Women's Livelihood and Development: An Overview / Recognition and Resource Rights -- Whose Rights? Women in Pastoralist and Shifting Cultivation Communities: A Continuing Struggle for Recognition and Rights to Livelihood Resources / Transgressing Political Spaces and Claiming Citizenship: The Case of Women Kendu Leaf-Pluckers and the Community Forestry Federation, Ranpur, Orissa / Legal Identity and Natural Resource Management: The Foraging Irula Women of Killai, Cuddalore District, Tamil Nadu / Work and Employment Strategies -- Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands: Livelihood Strategies of Women-Headed, Immigrant Households in the Charlands of the River Damodar, West Bengal / Migrant Tribal Women's Struggle for Livelihood: A Study of the Employment Assurance Scheme in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh / Restructuring the Employment Guarantee Scheme: Efforts to Provide Livelihood Opportunities through Women's SHGs and Horticulture in Maharashtra / The Challenge of Democratic Governance -- In the Name of the Community: Gender, Development and Governance in Arunachal Pradesh / The Reinforcement of Gender Stereotypes through Modern Education: The Case of Mizoram / Restructuring Institutional Systems -- Mainstreaming Gender in Agricultural Research and Extension: How Do We Move beyond Efficiency Arguments? / Women and Water Policy: Issues and Alternatives / Do Property Rights in Land Ensure Greater Participation of Women in Resource Management? Notes from a Study in Rural Karnataka / 'Just' Laws are not Enough: A Note on the Common Civil Code, Marriage and Inheritance in Goa / Women's Collective Agency, Development and Citizenship -- The Sangha Mane: The Translation of an Internal Need into a Physical Space / SHGs as Change Agents in Enhancing the Political Participation of Women in Local Self-Governance / Exploring Linkages between Citizenship, Livelihood Security and Gender Equality: Planned Interventions and Outcomes in Rajasthan / Dignity in Struggle: Lessons from the Past -- Women's Development under Patriarchy: The Experience of the Sathins / Sumi Krishna -- Sagari R. Ramdas and Nitya S. Ghotge -- Neera M. Singh -- P. Thamizoli and P. Ignatius Prabhakar -- Gopa Samanta and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt -- Sandeep Joshi -- Chhaya Datar -- Deepak K. Mishra and Vandana Upadhyay -- B. Lakshmi -- Meghana Kelkar -- Seema Kulkarni -- M. Indira -- Shaila Desouza -- Vinalini Mathrani and Vani Periodi -- Mandakini Pant -- Shobhita Rajagopal -- Rajesh Ramakrishnan, Viren Lobo and Depinder Kapur. 1. I. 2. 3. 4. II. 5. 6. 7. III. 8. 9. IV. 10. 11. 12. 13. V. 14. 15. 16. VI. 17.

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Women's rights--India
Women in development--India
Equality--India

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