05230nam a22005655i 4500 978-981-16-7538-6 DE-He213 20251030112656.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240729s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789811675386 978-981-16-7538-6 10.1007/978-981-16-7538-6 doi HD72-88 KCM bicssc BUS068000 bisacsh KCM thema Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia [electronic resource] : Perspectives on Entitlements and Violations / edited by Asok Kumar Sarkar, Satyajit Das Gupta. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 253 p. 5 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1 Introduction -- 2 Before NGOs: Women's Organizations in Colonial India -- 3 Politics of Women's Empowerment and Non-Governmental Organizations -- 4 NGO Activism and Women's Empowerment in India -- 5 Women’s Participation in Rural Local Governance of Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges -- 6 Reproductive Health of Women and Human Development in Nepal -- 7 Role of Microfinance in Empowering Woman Entrepreneurs in Rural Sri Lanka -- 8 Lives in Neglect, Deceit and Violence: Voices and Agencies of Trafficked Women -- 9 Multiplying Insecurity: Disempowerment of Women's Agency in the Logistics of Transnational Trafficking Networks of South Asia -- 10 Equalizing Gender Imbalance in a Globalized World. This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women’s empowerment. Drawing upon contributions from serving and retired academics with substantial experience of NGO-run women’s care and justice activities, it seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise involving several hugely intractable entitlements and violations South Asian women have experienced in historical and contemporary times. The book aims to generate substantial intellectual resources for yet another stimulating churning of interest and enthusiasm among policy makers, academics, social activists, development functionaries, students and inclined laypersons concerned with women’s studies in general and the multifaceted ordeal of women’s empowerment in particular. Asok Kumar Sarkar is Professor of Social Work in Visva-Bharati, India, and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development-Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace-Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co-Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of “Journal of Social Work and Social Development,” a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal, and served from 2010 to 2017. Satyajit Das Gupta is Director, Post-Graduate Diploma Course in Counselling (Affiliated to the Calcutta University), Legal Aid Services, West Bengal, and Member, Ethics Committee, KolGO Trg, a conglomerate of several regional and national medical institutions and establishments. He has been associated with the Calcutta University’s Women’s Studies Research Centre, Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal, and the Women’s Justice Initiative of the Human Rights Law Network, India. He also coordinated the Karachi-Calcutta-Dhaka Linkage Project on “Processes of Unprotected Work in South Asia for the International Institute of Social History,” Amsterdam. His publications include Mukher Kathay Itihas [History by Words of Mouth, Edited, 1997 & 2019] and Final Report on the DFLFLASWEB-DIHR Study Tour on Comparative Aspects of Public Interest Litigation in India and China (2012). Development economics. 61731 Economic development. 58075 Sex. 66477 Social policy. 60914 Development Economics. 61731 Development Studies. 67851 Gender Studies. 66478 Social Policy. 60914 Social Policy. 60914 Sarkar, Asok Kumar. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 81474 Das Gupta, Satyajit. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 81475 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789811675379 Printed edition: 9789811675393 Printed edition: 9789811675409 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7538-6 ZDB-2-ECF ZDB-2-SXEF 62012 62012