Women's livelihood rights [electronic resource] : recasting citizenship for development / edited by Sumi Krishna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krishna, Sumi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--India.

Equality.

Women in development--India.

Women in development.

Women's rights--India.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 p.)

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications ; New Delhi : Sage Publications India, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This interdisciplinary book looks at women`s natural resource-based livelihoods in the wider context of development viewed through the lens of citizenship rights. Unravelling the patriarchal social fabric and policy structures in India, it argues that the concept of citizenship needs to be extended to include recognition of ways of life and livelihood, so that women take their legitimate space as productive human beings, entitled to dignity as a political right, and not merely to protection and welfare. The editor weaves together a historical perspective on varied dimensions of livelihood, dev

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Recasting Citizenship for Women's Livelihood and Development; Whose Rights? Women in Pastoralist and Shifting Cultivation Communities; Transgressing Political Spaces and Claiming Citizenship; Legal Identity and Natural Resource Management; Marginal Lives in Marginal Lands; Migrant Tribal Women's Struggle for Livelihood; Restructuring the Employment Guarantee Scheme; In the Name of the Community; The Reinforcement of Gender Stereotypes through Modern Education; Mainstreaming Gender in Agricultural Research and Extension; Women and Water Policy

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; The Sangha Mané; SHGS as Change Agents in Enhancing the Political Participation of Women in Local Self-Governance; Exploring Linkages between Citizenship, Livelihood Security and Gender Equality; Women's Development under Patriarchy; About the Editor and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07794-5

9786612077944

81-321-0153-7

OCLC:

426490403