Gender Justice and Feminist Jurisprudence

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Description
Women constitute nearly fifty percent of the country's population. They are helpless at times and therefore, need proper care, protection, nourishment so that they become useful member of the society. The future of a nation depends on the welfare and wellbeing of women and children. State is under obligation to provide basic human rights and protect from all form of exploitation. Therefore, at national and international level various enactments, conventions,recommendations, declarations and policies are formulated for protection and welfare of females. Even judiciary since long period of time has been playing a pivotal role for the protection of women, children offences against women or better to say rights for women has become a subject of study now-a-days at the graduate and post-graduate level in various law faculties. I felt there is a need of a book on Gender Justice and Feminist Jurisprudence to deal with the subject on women rights. This book is a humble attempt to comply that need. The basic objective of this book is to provide the student, teachers and researchers topics on women related issues, their rights and obligations. I hope that this book would cater the needs of the students, academicians, researchers and all other persons in the legal field. I shall consider my efforts to have been rewarded if this purpose is fulfilled. I wish my gratitude to Mr. Rajiv Arora of Central Law Publications who gave me the opportunity to present this book to the academic society. I owe my indebtedness to my family members for their support, encouragement and interest in giving a complete shape to this book. Suggestions for improvement are welcome and will be given full consideration in next edition.
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Contents
Unit I
Chapter 01 : Gender Justice
Chapter 02 : Role of Women in India
Chapter 03 : Gender Justice and Women Empowerment
Unit II
Chapter 01 : Introduction : Feminism or Feminism
Chapter 02 : Feminist Perspectives on Development
Chapter 03 : Feminist Thought
Chapter 04 : Status of Women in India - Historical Background
Unit III
Chapter 01 : Changing Status of Women in India Politics (1917-1947) : The Role of Civil Society
Chapter 02 : Gender Inequality and Women's Contribute to Women's Empowerment
Chapter 03 : Social Movements in India
Chapter 04 : Gandhi on Women Emancipation
Chapter 05 : Women Empowerment in India : A Brief Discussion
Chapter 06 : Family and Sex
Chapter 07 : Gender Equality Unit and the Ombudsman for Equality
Unit IV
Chapter 01 : The Status of Women in Independent India
Chapter 02 : Fundamental Right and Directive Principles of State Policy
Chapter 03 : Trafficking in Women and Children
Chapter 04 : Gender Inequality and Personal Laws
Chapter 05 : Uniform Civil Code, Women Empowerment and Gender Justice
Chapter 06 : Charting a New Path toward Gender Equality in India from Religious Personal
                           Laws to a Uniform Civil Code
Chapter 07 : A Feminist Perspective Increating Alternative Development 
Chapter 08 : India-Women in the Socity
Unit V
Chapter 01 : Gender, Empowerment and Inclusive Growth
Chapter 02 : Feminism, Liberal
Chapter 03 : Radical Feminism
Chapter 04 : Feminism in the Indian Context : An Introduction
Unit VI
Chapter 01 : Women's Rights are Human Rights
Chapter 02 : Violation of Women Human Rights in India
Chapter 03 : Women's Rights and International Agreements
Chapter 04 : Conviction on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979
Unit VII
Chapter 01 : Guardianship
Chapter 02 : Women's and Children's Right in a Human Rights Based Approach to Development
Chapter 03 : Women's Property Rights-A Historical Prospective
Chapter 04 : Devolution of Property of a Hindu Intestate
Chapter 05 : Child Custody and Guardianship in Muslim law
Chapter 06 :  Child Custody and Guardianship in the West
Chapter 07 : Daily Bread Denied Analysis of Petition for Maintenance
Unit VIII
Chapter 01 : Equal Remuneration and Maternity Benefit
Chapter 02 : Other Legislations  Dowry Prohibition Act 1961
Chapter 03 : The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1961
Chapter 04 : The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986
Chapter 05 : The National Commission for Women Act, 1990
Unit IX
Chapter 01 : Crime Against Women : Type and Causes
Chapter 02 : Dowry Death and Law : Indian Scenario
Chapter 03 : Violence Against Women
Chapter 04 : Criminal Law and Unborn : Indian Scenario
Chapter 05 : Female Foeticide in India : A Serious Challenge for Society
Chapter 06 : Compensatory Jurisprudence
Unit X
Chapter 01 : Women's Paths to Political Participation and Decision Marking

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Author Details

Dr, Ishita Chatterjee
LL.M., Ph.D. (Allahabad University) Assistant Professor, ICFAI Law School, ICFAI University, Tripura