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Women in contemporary India : traditional images and changing roles

Title
Women in contemporary India : traditional images and changing roles / edited by Alfred de Souza.
Publication
Delhi : Manohar Book Service, 1975.

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Additional Authors
De Souza, Alfred, 1930-1984
Description
xxvi, 264 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Anthology of essays on the role of women in social change in India - includes discrimination, social mobility, employment and family life, women's rights, religion, the ageing women, emigrants to the UK, etc. Bibliography pp. 253 to 258, references and statistical tables.
Subject
  • Women > India > Social conditions
  • Women > Social conditions
  • women
  • social change
  • discrimination
  • social mobility
  • employment
  • family
  • womens rights
  • religion
  • ageing
  • emigrant
  • statistical table
  • femmes
  • changement social
  • mobilité sociale
  • emploi
  • famille
  • droits de la femme
  • vieillissement
  • émigrant
  • tableau statistique
  • mujeres
  • cambio social
  • discriminación
  • movilidad social
  • empleo
  • familia
  • derechos de la mujer
  • religión
  • envejecimiento
  • emigrante
  • cuadros estadísticos
  • India
  • India
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Inde
  • Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
  • Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Genre/Form
  • anthology.
  • bibliography.
  • reference.
  • anthologie.
  • bibliographie.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • antología.
  • bibliografía.
  • referencia.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [253]-258.
Contents
Introduction / Alfred de Souza -- International women's year: It's significance for women in India / Suma Chitnis -- Women in Uttar Pradesh: Social mobility and directions of change / Zarina Bhatty -- Employment and family change: A study of middle-class women in urban Gujarat / M.R. Wood -- Etiquette among women in Karnataka: forms of address in the village and the family / Helen E. Ullrich -- Women in Kerala: Changing socio-economic status and self image / J. Murickan -- Women and the law: Constitutional rights and continuing inequalities / Joseph Minattur -- Women and religion: The status and image of women in major religious traditions / Ursula King -- Family status and female work participation / Victor S. D'Souza -- The aging women in India: Self-perception and changing roles / Sylvia Vatuk -- Asian women in Britain: Strategies of adjustment of Indian and Pakistani Migrants / Verity Saifullah Khan -- The study of women in India: Some problems in methodology / Andrea Menefee Singh
LCCN
76900940
OCLC
  • ocm02509119
  • 2509119
  • SCSB-109074
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library