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Voices of privilege and sacrifice from women volunteers in India : I can change / Aditi Mitra, PhD.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitra, Aditi, 1972- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--India.
- Feminism.
- Women volunteers in social service--India--Kolkata.
- Women volunteers in social service.
- Voluntarism--India--Kolkata.
- Voluntarism.
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Non-governmental organizations--India.
- Non-governmental organizations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Voices of Privilege and Sacrifice from Women Volunteers in India: I Can Change uses data collected from educated, urban, middle and upper-class women at the forefront of women's empowerment movements as volunteers and activists in NGOs in India, who consider themselves sometimes feminist and sometimes not. It sheds light on how these women in a fast-changing global economy negotiate their daily lives amid pressures of tradition, and if they are able to transition from a traditional patriarchal society to an egalitarian democratic civil society.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The role of NGOs as women's spaces in Kolkata
- Tracing the women's movement in India
- A visionary partnership: women and NGOs
- Working with NGOs
- Domestic obligations
- Challenges and obstacles
- Career incentives and motivations
- Image of NGOs
- Interpreting and exploring feminism
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-31879-8
- 0-7391-3853-7
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