Essays on Women Empowerment  (English, Paperback, Dr. A Radhakrishnan Nair)

Women Empowerment is a social process, making women realize their potential, their knowledge and expertise and strengthen their capacity in a way help them to play a meaningful role in their own life or in their community’s development. It’s about trusting themselves as well as the realization of one’s own capacities. Women feel empowered, because they realize that they can make a difference. This edited volume has 17 articles of which 14 are discussing various issues of women directly including: • livelihood generation and employment, • health, mental health, art-based therapy as a strategy to maintain mental health and adolescent girls, • yoga as a life skill for maintaining women health, • education of women including the philosophy of Savitri Bhai Phule, • life skills for developing the agency or capacity development of female students, • gender related stigma in schools, • gender and politics of appeasement, • women in agriculture, eco-feminism and women in community development, • empowerment of women: Government of India initiatives, • children with disabilities, • socio-cultural animation for tribal development and • children without parents or abandoned. This collection of articles will be a great contribution to the body of knowledge pertaining to Sociology and Women Studies. The edited book, “Essays on Women Empowerment” is intended as a festschrift volume in honour of Prof. M Indu Kumari, who is a renowned Professor of Sociology and an expert in women studies from the University of Kerala. Related Disciplines: Sociology, Women Studies, Gender Studies, Gender and Development, Social Work, Development in Practice, Public Policy, etc.