Interrogating women's leadership and empowerment / edited by Omita Goyal.

Includes bibliographical references.

Understanding leadership: lessons from the women's movement -- Revisiting the theme of women's empowerment: how leadership matters -- Women leaders in every Mohalla, every village -- Rockets with fire in their tails? Women leaders in Kerala's Panchayats -- Labouring intellectuals: the conceptual world of Dalit women -- Czarinas or girl fridays? Women in the corporate sector -- Leadership for women's equality and empowerment in higher education -- Anatomy of a change: early women doctors -- From dynasty to legitimacy: women leaders in Indian politics -- Other histories: gender and politics in the fiction of Mahasweta Devi -- In her own write: writing from a Dalit feminist standpoint -- Catalysing craft: women who shaped the way -- Leadership in the arts: Rukmini Devi Arundale -- Recasting bodies and the transformation of the self: women performers in the Bombay film industry (1925-1947) -- Ascribing feminist intent: the invention of the Indian woman artist -- The Alpha Songbirds: Independent and vibrant -- Empowering women through education: the story of Indraprastha School -- Gender and governance: from concern to indicators -- The movement for change: implementation of sexual assault laws -- Caregivers, caretakers: dealing with impunity and immunity at the margins.

Looking at gender through multiple lenses, this volume seeks to understand what empowerment really means to women today. It examines the situation of women in, and their contribution to, politics, business, education, social and economic development, the women's movement, health, law, insurgency and the arts. The volume analyses certain key issues of contemporary discourse including: * ownership of one's body and freedom of choice * redefinition of empowerment and leadership and how far we have achieved it * importance of equal access to education, employment and health * political participation and decision making, and * dichotomy between marginalisation of women on grounds of caste, class and religion in a society with changing laws on women's rights.

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