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Author Deka, Meeta

Title Women's agency and social change : Assam and beyond / Meeta Deka
Published Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Sage studies on India's North East
Sage studies on India's north east.
Contents Cover ; Contents; Foreword ; Preface ; Introduction ; 1 -- Women and Society ; 2 -- Women and Law ; 3 -- Women and Economy: Marginalization, Alienation and Agency ; 4 -- Changing Patriarchy and Women's Space in Politics ; 5 -- Conclusion ; Glossary ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the Author
Summary Womens Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and womens subordination therein. British intervention, 1826-1947, by itself did not impact the agency aspect on women directly, but the emergence of new forces and factors sowed the seeds of womens agency to impact social change, even if minimal. In the post-Independence period, British colonial legacy perpetuated the subordination of women through caste and class hierarchy at seve
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Women -- India
Women -- Political activity -- India
Feminism -- India
Social change -- India
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Feminism
Social change
Women
Women -- Political activity
India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9788132116547
8132116542