Countering Gender Violence

Countering Gender Violence Book Description

About the Book:
Violence constitutes a major form of oppressing women. Rooted in the practical experiences of rural Indian women, Countering Gender Violence explores those facets of social, cultural and economic life that otherwise appear to have little bearing on gender violence and hence are rarely examined.This book studies the phenomenon of violence which, while being meted out to individual women, is systematically rooted in the social pattern of gender relations. Addressing gender violence requires challenging the means by which gender roles and power relations are defined and articulated in society. The book focuses on ways through which these relations can be altered in favour of women. The author concludes that strategies for countering gender violence must emerge from women's collective and shared experience of both subordination and empowerment.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Critical Theory of Environment
Methodology of Research
Environmental Protest, Locality and Modernity
National Parks, Land Alienation and Tribal Livelihoods
Aierawat (The White Elephant) and Other Stories
Cultural Imperatives of Technology Transfer
Limits to Pollution Abatement
Do Ideologies Matter in Urban Transport Projects'
Environmental Struggles, Protest and Survival
References
Index

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