The purpose of this paper is to look at the antecedents of the Indian women's movement and the achievements before and after independence. The status of women has been a central concern of many reform movements in India. Prior to India's independence, the organizations and groups t...
(1792). The women's movements that emerged in all Western states around the middle of the nineteenth century called forpolitical participationand civil rights, especially women's suffrage and liberation of the marital subordination of married women (seeFeminist Movements). It has been a long ...
If you ask most children-or even most adults-to draw a picture of a computer scientist, you are likely to get a picture of a man. Despite the personal and professional rewards careers in technology, women are underrepresented in high-tec... ...
With this shift came a desire for expressing an independent India's resurgent identity through modern architecture. One architect who was equally involved in the freedom struggle was Pravina Mehta, pausing her architectural education to join mass movements against British Rule. Pravina's interests ...
While much recent scholarship has focused on transnational movements and activism, Rossen Djagalov turns our attention to the international鈥攕pecifically the leftist, state-driven networks connecting the Soviet Union to Asia, Africa, an... SS Lee - 《Journal of Social History》 被引量: 0发表...
Disciplinary power also “prescribes movements” (Foucault,1979,Discipline and Punish, p. 167) for subjects, and surveillance makes sure it is strictly followed. Gowri, in Sivakami’sThe Grip of Change, is scolded by her father Kathamuthu every time she sits with elders and listens to them ...
Scroll through all the photographs and footage of the mass protest movements in Tunisia, Yemen and Egypt and you will not be hard-pressed to find some women in the crowds. Perhaps fewer here and more there, but they are present and making their voices heard. Nawal El Saadawi, an Egyptian...
(1946-51) movements was significant, these movements were not committed to the issue of gender. Women’s issues fell within the purview of the urban elite, while poor rural women were mobilized only for nationalist or class causes. These disjunctures based on class lines that developed ...
Various women in Namibia have been writing about their struggle to participate in their own right, and not to support men, in the Namibian struggle for independence [33,34]. Shilongo [34] states that, one of the women’s movements in Namibia around the 1950′s took place in Windhoek, th...
In civil rights: Civil rights movements across the globe Most notably, women, having gained the right to vote in 1920 via constitutional amendment, also have made many gains in the area of employment rights. The women’s rights movement has thus far been stopped short of passage of the Equal...