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Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space

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Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space

A Case Study of Women in Panchayats of Orissa, India

By: Hiranmayee Mishra

£39.99

A 1992 quota thrust rural Indian women into politics. This book reveals how they negotiated their new roles, converting the strong patriarchal set-up into a support system and achieving social and economic empowerment.

This book is the outcome of interdisciplinary research investigating female participation in politics in rural India. The participants were all rural and mostly illiterate women…

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Author: Hiranmayee Mishra ISBN: 1-4438-5228-7 Categories: Social Sciences, Multidiscipline, Multidiscipline, Sociology

This book is the outcome of interdisciplinary research investigating female participation in politics in rural India. The participants were all rural and mostly illiterate women who dared to explore the public space by entering into grassroots political institutions as a result of the quota introduced in 1992. This ruling stipulated that ‘no less than one third of the seats’ in India’s rural political units, the Panchayats, were to be filled by women, and created a social revolution in the countryside of India. The book presents an interesting investigation into about how women representatives negotiated their new roles by converting the strong patriarchal set-up in India into a support system for their new endeavour.

This is an interesting work on women in local political institutions, and reveals the gradual social and economic empowerment of women through gender quotas in politics.

Dr Hiranmayee Mishra has taught at a rural-based college in the state of Odisha since 1992. She is presently working as the Director of the Women’s Studies Centre at an autonomous college which offers a degree level course in Women’s Studies, the first of its kind in the state. She offers gender training and leads gender sensitization camps in both Government and Non-Government Sectors. Dr. Mishra was awarded a fellowship by the International Ford Foundation and was a Fellow from 2007–2010 at the University of York, UK. She is an acclaimed creative writer and has received many awards for her literary excellence.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-4438-5228-7
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-5228-9
Date of Publication: 2013-11-29

Ebook

ISBN: 1-4438-5585-5
ISBN13: 978-1-4438-5585-3
Date of Publication: 2013-11-29

Categories: Social Sciences, Multidiscipline, Multidiscipline, Sociology

Pages: 198

Subject Codes:

BIC: GT, GTF, JFSJ1
BISAC: POL052000, POL054000, POL029000, SOC028000, SOC032000, SOC026020
THEMA: GT, GTP, JBSF1

Pages: 198

This exemplary work provides new insight into political participation of the women representatives in Panchayat. During a field work that required enormous tact, sensitivity and rigour, Hiranmayee spent time in the village, attended the Panchayat meetings over a period of six months and built a good rapport with the women members. Dr Mishra's work provides an insightful analysis of both the work and outcome. In fact, I was so impressed by her work, that I cited the findings of Dr Mishra's work in a debate on Equality Laws in the House of Lords.
- – Professor Haleh Afshar Baroness Afshar

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Hiranmayee Mishra

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