1st Edition

Organising Women's Protest A Study of Political Styles in Two South Indian Activist Groups

By Eldrid Mageli Copyright 1997
    194 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    This study examines the nature of two women's activist groups in Madras and their activities since 1979, focusing on their work with the media, slum issues, registration of marriages and initiation of an apprenticeship scheme. But this volume is more than a study of women and their organisations. It is a study of political processes in which women are active, an attempt to discuss women's political behaviour in male-dominated society where official bodies, as well as the academic world, pay attention to 'women's issues' but where women as political actors continue to be invisible.

    Chapter 1 Introduction and Outline of Argument; Chapter 2 India’s Political Culture and Behaviour – an Outline of Aspects; Chapter 3 The PI and the JACW – a Break with Political Behaviour; Chapter 4 The PI and the Media; Chapter 5 The PI and Slum Issues; Chapter 6 The JACW and Registration of Marriages; Chapter 7 The JACW’s On-Site Apprenticeship Scheme for Women Masons; Chapter 8 Conclusions;

    Biography

    Eldrid Mageli