Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia

This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women's empowerment. Drawing upon contributions from serving and retired academics with substantial experience of NGO-run women's care and justice activities, it seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise involving several hugely intractable entitlements and violations South Asian women have experienced in historical and contemporary times. The book aims to generate substantial intellectual resources for yet another stimulating churning of interest and enthusiasm among policy makers, academics, social activists, development functionaries, students and inclined laypersons concerned with women's studies in general and the multifaceted ordeal of women's empowerment in particular.

Asok Kumar Sarkar is Professor of Social Work in Visva-Bharati, India, and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development-Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace-Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co-Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of "Journal of Social Work and Social Development," a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal, and served from 2010 to 2017.

Satyajit Das Gupta is Director, Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Counselling (Affiliated to the Calcutta University), Legal Aid Services, West Bengal, and Member, Ethics Committee, KolGO Trg, a conglomerate of several regional and national medical institutions and establishments. He has been associated with the Calcutta University's Women's Studies Research Centre, Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal, and the Women's Justice Initiative of the Human Rights Law Network, India. He also coordinated the Karachi-Calcutta-Dhaka Linkage Project on "Processes of Unprotected Work in South Asia for the International Institute of Social History," Amsterdam. His publications include Mukher Kathay Itihas [History by Words of Mouth, Edited, 1997 & 2019] and Final Report on the DFLFLASWEB-DIHR Study Tour on Comparative Aspects of Public Interest Litigation in India and China (2012).

Auteur

Satyajit Das Gupta has been associated with Legal Aid Services - West Bengal, Human Rights Law Network, India and the Calcutta University's Women's Studies Research Centre. He has lectured and published widely on problems of domestic violence, women's access to justice and counselling for women in distress.

Asok Kumar Sarkar is Head, Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati, India and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development -Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Co- Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace - Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co- Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of 'Journal of Social Work and Social Development', a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal and had served from 2010 to 2017.

Contenu

Chapter - I: Introduction: Into the Realm of NGO Work for

Disempowered South Asian Women Asok Kumar Sarkar and Satyajit Das Gupta Chapter - II: Panorama of Violence Against Women in Domestic and Public Spheres - Academic Perspectives Ishita Mukherjee, Shamita Das Dasgupta & Ruchira Goswami Chapter - III: Battling for Legal Aid and Empowerment for Poor and Disadvantaged Bangladeshi Women and Girls Sara Hossain Chapter - IV: Moving Beyond the "Rescue & Rehabilitation" Narrative of Trafficking and Sex Work in South Asia Geraldine Forbes, Ruchira Gupta and Paula Banerjee Chapter - V: Civil Society in Ascendance - NGOs and the Women's Cause in Nepal Geeta Pathak Singroula Chapter - VI: Women's Organizations and the Central and State Womne's Commissions in India Malini Bhattacharya Chapter - VII: Women's Interlink - Enhancing Women's Dignity

Aloka Mitra Chapter - VIII: NGOs, Development and Gender Justice in North and Eastern India

Tushar Kanjilal, Biswajit Ghosh and Ranjana Kumari