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Writings
Feminist Reflection - A Selection of Texts by Devaki Jain
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Feminist Economists Engage with India's Eleventh Five Year Plan
By Syeda Hameed and Devaki Jain, assisted by Priyanka Mukherjee and Divya Alexander
Paper for the IAFFE conference on Engendering Economic Policy, Boston 2009
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Contextualizing women’s work, within the current macro economic incentives in India
By Devaki Jain and Reiko Tsushima
Paper presented at ILO meeting, Boston, May 2008
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Shifting Our Platform: In Response to Current Ground Level Phenomena
By Devaki Jain and Shubha Chacko
Speech at 4th World Congress of Rural Women (Theme: Current Developments On Issues Pertaining to Rural Women)
Durban, Republic of South Africa, April 23-26, 2007
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To Be or Not to Be
The Location of Women in Public Policy: The Problematique of Gendering Public Policy
In: Economic & Political Weekly Issue : VOL 42 No. 08, February 24, 2007
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This paper discusses some of the problems women face in gendering public policy. The paper elaborates on how women's collective identity can be forceful politically when backed by knowledge and gives examples of this from Karnataka. New developments in decentralisation of governance have opened possibilities for women's agency at the local level. Paradoxically, developments at the global level have the possibility of undermining this process. The author argues that we can only therefore confront this not by integrating into the existing development paradigm and attempting small changes at the local level but by evolving a different development paradigm that will ensure justice for the majority of the poor and women.
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Invoking Gyana, Women's Knowing, as a Vehicle for Rebellion
A background paper for the Casablanca Dream meeting "Women Weave Peace into Globalisation", Morocco, January 12-15, 2007
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Women, Public Policy and the New World Order
Lecture delivered on May 2, 2006
Jagori & Sangat in Collaboration with India Habitat Centre
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Feminism and Feminist Expression: A Dialogue
In: "Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India", p. 184
Edited by Kamala Ganesh, Usha Thakkar
Sage 2005
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The collection of 17 original essays, provides insights into the many ways in which the interrelated issues of culture, identity and 'Indianness' are expressed in contemporary times. The contributors map and evaluate the developments in their respective fields over the past 50 years and cover the topics of art, music, theatre, literature, philosophy, science, history and feminism.
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Rethinking the need for and structure of the national machineries for women's advancement
Paper prepared for United Nations, Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW): "The role of national mechanisms in promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women: achievements, gaps and challenges" Rome, Italy, 29 November 2004 - 2 December 2004
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How women's leadership can transform the Nation: Durgabai showed the way
Lecture in honour of Smt. Durgabai Deshmukh, Hyderabad July 15, 2004
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Women's Participation in the History of Ideas: The Importance of Reconstructing Knowledge
Paper presented at National Institute for Advanced Studies, Bangalore, February 6, 2004
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Narratives from the Women's Studies Family: Recreating Knowledge
Edited by Devaki Jain and Pam Rajput
New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2003
(388 pages)
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The existence of women's studies, whether as an academic discipline or as an activity centre, is fraught with paradox. On one hand, it is a landmark achievement in the journey to gender justice, on the other, it is an evocative symbol of the discrimination, which causes its being. These and other ironies are explored in this book, which records the early history of the women's movement in India by documenting the activities and opinions of 17 women's studies centres from across the country. Speaking from their specific subjective context, the contributors add a valuable new dimension to the global discussion on what it is to be 'the second sex' and the fulfilment of having 'a room of one's own'.
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Valuing Women - signals from the ground
Paper presented at a seminar on "Cultural diversity and universal norms", University Maryland, USA, June 1, 2001
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The vocabulary of women's politics
Seventeen Essays and Articles
New Delhi : Friedrich Ebert Stiftung 2000
(469 pages)
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Women's Conference - Journeys: What have we not done? Were have we gone wrong?
Paper presented in CONGO Special Session, June 3, 2000
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The Torture of Women: Some Dimensions
Paper presented at VII International Symposium on Torture, New Delhi September 1999
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For Women to lead ... Ideas and Experiences from Asia
A Study On Legal and Political Impediments to Gender Equality in Governance
By Jain, Devaki., Assisted by Ms. Supriti Bezbaruah
National Commission For Women (India), October 1997 (84 pages)
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Women and Ethical Leadership
In: "Women's Leadership and the Ethics of Development"
By Bella Abzug and Devaki Jain
Gender in Development Monograph Series #4. UNDP, August 1996 (11 pages)
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India - a Condition across Caste and Class
In: Robin Morgan, ed., "Sisterhood is Global", p. 305
Feminist Press, 1996 (832 pages)
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Capitalising on restlessness: women's opportunity to transform leadership
Inaugural address delivered at Commonwealth Universities Meet, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, November 15,1995
Published in: Devaki Jain: "Minds, Bodies, and Exemplars: Reflections at Beijing and Beyond", New Delhi, 1996, p. 25-34.
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World Conference on Women: An Indian Perspective
In: Mainstream, August 26, 1995
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Is there a special quality in women's leadership?
Keynote address to the national conference of University Women's Associations in Madra, 1995
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The Leadership Gap: A Challenge to Feminists
Presidential Address, Indian Association of Women's Studies Conference, Mysore 1993
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Women: New visions of leadership
A presentation at the Global Forum of Women. Dublin, July 9-12, 1992
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Perspective Emerging from Women's Experience
In: Anima Bose, ed., "Peace and Conflict Resolution in the World Community"
New Delhi, Vikas Publishing House, 1991 (208 pages)
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Women Religion and Social Change
In: Hemlata Swarup, Sarojini Bisaria a.o., eds., "Women, Politics and Religion", p. 331
AC Brothers, 1991
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Papers presented at the International Seminar on "Women, Religion, and Politics".
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Power: Through the looking glass of feminism
In: Monique Leijenaar a.o., eds., "The Gender of Power"
(Book of abstracts), Leiden, VENA, 1987
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Speaking of Faith: Global Perspectives on Women, Religion and Social Change
Cross-cultural perspectives on women, religion and social change
Edited by Diana L. Eck and Devaki Jain
Library Company of Philadelphia, 1987 (288 pages)
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Women's Roles in Large Employment Systems
Ford Foundation, Delhi 1983 (182 pages)
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Indian Women, Today and Tomorrow
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 1983 (40 pages)
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Indian Women
Edited by Devaki Jain
New Delhi (Publications Division of Ministry of Information), 1975
312 pages
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