Empowerment of Women in India

In: The Indian journal of political science, Band 67, Heft 4

Abstract

Despite the best efforts of the exponents of social movement theory, the dynamics of empowerment of women in India has not been (re)visited to lend specificity to the Indian gender mainstreaming strategies. So the Indian post-feminist efforts to engender 'a gender-just society' by empowering women, critical symbols of continued sub-alternship, need to be put under post feminist scanners. Against this backdrop, it is mooted that the principal aim of this paper is to (re)define empowerment of women in India as an open-ended process aiming at the felicitating (i) abolition of gender-based discrimination in all institutions and structures of the India society and (ii) participation of women in policy and decision-making processes at private and public levels of assorted activities, qualified by all dyadic relations among mind, matter, politics of knowledge, gender politics, and poetics of lack and desire. Adapted from the source document.