ProfileofaFeminist This issue of Samyukta gives a profile of Juliet Mitchell in its regular series on major feminists. I think there seems overwhelming justification for the charge that the many different psychotherapeutic practices, including those that by the formal definition…
Forum for Discussion In this issue of Samyukta we foreground the problems of fishworkers in the context of globalisation. ‘Without women in fisheries, no fish in the sea’ was the conclusion of an International Workshop of Women who were either…
Abstract: The article attempts to explore the different connotations of meaning that first nation people of north America and Canada associate with words like “survival” and “frontier”. Poetry is, in most cases the chosen medium of expression of the first…
Abstract: In the narrative of the Indian nation state, women are absences that convey hidden histories. They are targets and are mere markers in politically tenuous games but though subaltern, they have learned to manipulate the system. Their stories have…
Abstract: The process of the transformation from life to art no doubt entails corresponding changes in the other aspects of the art activity. This process starts at the level of language and moves up to that of the…
Abstract: Reading and re-reading from multiple stances has been the prerogative of much of present post-colonial and/or feminist discourse. While plurality and marginality are conceptual terms that make an attempt to account for and accommodate what was once the periphery…
Abstract: The civil rights movements led to formation of black studies and ethnic studies, and the students movement in l960s that demanded fundamental changes in the academic curricula and created a foothold for women’s studies in the United States of…
Abstract: With greater awareness about human rights, the status of women in the society has been in focus for some decades now. National and international summits have been held to discuss the issues pertaining to women. Committees were set…
Abstract: This paper discusses five phases of evolution of the Indian women’s role in management, spanning five decades of 20th century and their transition into the new millennium. The first phase represented tentative beginnings, where women entered the workplace the…
Abstract: India has an early and rich tradition of education of women. The decline began with the rise of Brahamanical forces which imposed restrictions on women’s movements, denying them the right to education. Only with the introduction of modern education…
Abstract: The call for a matching supply of technical manpower is a natural consequence in this world of rapid industrialisation, liberalisation and globalisation. To achieve a sustainable development in any country, each member of the society has to be given…
Abstract: In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the region of Oudh, a woman’s education was considered to be of far less importance than her safety. There were a host of apprehensions about sending girls to school. The…
