Essays about: "problems of women in india"

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  1. 1. Frames in a social movement for safe public spaces : Problems meeting new solutions

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : David Karlström; [2017]
    Keywords : safe public spaces; social movement; frames; women;

    Abstract : Safety in public spaces has become an issue of increased concern and attention in India, after incidents of sexual harassment and violence against women. The need for safe public spaces was formulated in the civil society in New Delhi and can be described as a social movement. READ MORE

  3. 2. Women and Maids : Perceptions of domestic workers, house work and class among young, progressive, middle-to-upper class women in Delhi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Otso Harju; [2016]
    Keywords : Domestic workers; Delhi; Class; Gender roles; Reflexivity; Social change; Family; India; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses ten indepth interviews on domestic workers, class and gender roles with ten young, politically inclined and often adamantly feminist women towards the upper end of the Indian class spectrum. It aims to deepen the understanding of employerworker relations and gendered domestic roles in contemporary Indian households. READ MORE

  4. 3. Characters' Views and Perception : Hybridity and the Westerners in Two Indian Novels by Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie

    University essay from Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Pernilla Petersson; [2013]
    Keywords : Hybridity; adaptation; imitation; Indian views; alienating hybridity; half-breed; the West;

    Abstract : In the two novels, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, characters show that their preconceptions and encounter with the Westerners play a big role in how they view Westerners and/or Indians who have adapted to or grown up with the Western lifestyle. Due to Roy’s family being a group of “Anglophiles” and liking the British, they see Sophie Mol being half-Indian as positive. READ MORE

  5. 4. The sanitary situation and its health effects on women exposed to occupational heat in Chennai, India.

    University essay from Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap

    Author : Hannah Diverde; [2013]
    Keywords : sanitation; healt; environment; india;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study was to see how lack of toilets along with occupational heat affects health and prosperous. It is based on interviews made on women and men working in the surroundings of Chennai, India, with and without access to toilets, that all are affected by occupational heat. READ MORE

  6. 5. "Let Only Your Corpse Come Out of that House" : an Analysis of Contemporary Dowry Discourses in Indian Newspapers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Harpreet Singh; [2011]
    Keywords : Human Rights; Dowry; Dowry deaths; Domestic violence; Marriage; Frames; Journalists’ frames; Media content; Dowry suicides; Women; Modernization; India; mänskliga rättigheter; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine the complex social and cultural practice of dowry, and violence related to dowry, in India. The dowry system may at first appear to be an old-fashioned and traditional institution that in face of modernization would slowly fade away. READ MORE