2014 Politics and Gender Course Lectures (original) (raw)

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT SOME REFLECTIONS

The concern with gender emerged as feminist theorists sought to understand the complexities of women's subordination. The word gender came into mainly academic use some 15 years after the reemergence of late-20th-century feminism, which has, unlike its earlier manifestations, made a significant dent in male-dominated (androcentric) scholarship (at least, I like to think so).

Vol-II * Issue-XII* Women Empowerment and the Rise of Feminism

2016

Feminism is an ideology which seeks not only to understand the world but to change it to the advantages of women. It aims at defining, establishing and defending equal political, economic and social rights for women. Feminism focuses on the marginalisation of women and how they are being relegated to a secondary position. Most feminists believe that our culture is a patriarchal culture and it is organised in favour of the interests of men. Feminist literary critics try to explain how power imbalances due to gender in a given culture are reflected in or challenged by literary texts. Feminism is a movement for the empowerment of women. It is a social movement which redresses the gender imbalance in society. Aim of the Study The aim of the study is to find a connection between women empowerment and the movement of feminism. Being popularised in the early twentieth century, feminism struggles for securing women"s suffrage and the later socio-political movement for women"s eman...

WOMEN STUDIES (THE LAST FEMINIST WAVE)

The Science Of The Map Is Not The Territory , 2023

This work explores the extension of Women's Studies to include a focus on the formal and natural scientific aspects of this interdisciplinary field of study which has traditionally been associated with the humanities and social sciences that examines the intersectionality of gender, race, class, sexuality, and other social categories. By highlighting the formal and natural scientific methodology of the field, this expand its scope and provide new insights into gender and social inequality from a perspective that goes against the widespread trend which predominantly dominate Intellect of the last century that strictly constrain work of this nature to the domain of gender studies.

Movement of Female's Rights in the World

This paper argues the latest needs articulating females women's rights as human rights is usually effective just by simply misrecognition with the geopolitical circumstance of human rights internationalism plus the nationalisms that are permanent because of it. Disagreeing it is just about the level of universalized buildings of 'women' to be a group plus the generalized invocations of oppression by simply 'global feminism's' 'American' professionals which this kind of discourses of rights become to be effective, this specific document argues which plan along with steps call for handling localised along with transnational specificities which developed gendered inequalities.

“Women empoWerment-Issues and Challenges”

2016

Women population is around 50% of the total population of the world. They have every right to be treated equally with men in every sphere of life and society. Women Empowerment refers to the creation of an environment for women where they can make decisions of their own for their personal benefits as well as for the society. Today the empowerment of women has become one of the most important concerns of 21st century. But practically women empowerment is still an illusion of reality. We observe in our day to day life how women become victimized by various social evils. Women Empowerment is the vital instrument to expand women's ability to have resources and to make strategic life choices. Empowerment of women is essentially the process of upliftment of economic, social and political status of women, the traditionally underprivileged ones, in the society. It is the process of guarding them against all forms of violence. It involves the building up of a society, a political environ...