Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082177
S. Ray, Sraman Mukherjee
The introduction of a new fishing technology in a small riverine village of Odisha resulted in paradoxical socio-economic outcomes. The fresh and flowing water pisciculture through the innovative Pen technology, which was based on an enclosure aquaculture system, bound from all sides by a close-knit row of multiple pens, improved productivity, income and employment levels of the fishing community. But the new technology also aggravated extant gender inequalities in the village, located on the banks of the river Mahanadi. The gendering of access to, control over and use of Pen culture in the fishing village of Naraj decided the winners and losers in this technological change. Systematic social closure and institutional bias not only ensured the exclusion of fisherwomen from accessing and utilising the new productive technology and related resources in Naraj but also reinforced the traditional male domination in the fishery sector.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082183
Sujatha Devarapalli
Nandini Manjrekar (Ed.) assisted by Simran Luthra, Gender and Education in India: A Reader (New Delhi: Aakar Publications, 2020), 295 pages, ₹1,695 (Hardback). ISBN 978955002632
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082176
P. Swaminathan
Praveen Jha, Avinash Kumar and Yamini Mishra (Eds.), Labouring Women: Issues and Challenges in Contemporary India (Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan, 2020), 328 pp. ₹775 (Paperback), ISBN 9789390122073.
Pub Date : 2022-04-17DOI: 10.1177/09746862221082182
G. Godbole
This article presents a nuanced understanding of the contemporary phenomenon of increasing land sale in Western India and its impacts on a rapidly changing social context. It focuses on perspectives of rural women who often lack a voice in matters related to land. The research was undertaken in Maval tehsil (administrative unit) of Pune district, Maharashtra, where the incidence of land sale has increased in the last few years. The article explores the perceived impacts of land sale on rural society in the region. Physical changes such as fencing have affected sanitary practices, collection of fuel wood and fodder and access routes. Individualisation of property rights has resulted in conflicts within patrilineal systems as well as influenced the overall social fabric of village life.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-02DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082185
M. Rao
In July 2021, Uttar Pradesh announced a population policy, Draft Uttar Pradesh Population Control, Stabilisation and Welfare Bill, 2021, that was astoundingly thoughtless, even as it was demographically unnecessary. That Assam and Uttar Pradesh have joined the long list of dismal states that advocate a stringent two-child norm in population policy is only reflective of how unthinking and thoughtless our policy planners are. They perhaps reflect carefully thought-out political strategies to weaponise demography, demonise Muslims, and consummate a Hindu vote bank? These policies ignore the fact that a sustained fertility decline is visible all over the country. Indeed the rate of decline of the fertility among Muslims is greater than among Hindus.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082180
P. Swathisha, S. Deb
Sex work is considered one of the oldest professions in the world. In India, selling sex in private is legal, while all other activities related to sex work, such as pimping, brothel-keeping, are considered to be illegal. Despite their vulnerability to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, the research has been less focused on the other challenges faced by sex workers. This article aims to understand the major challenges faced by female commercial sex workers (CSWs) through a qualitative study covering 15 CSWs who work in Puducherry Union Territory in South India. The data were collected by using an in-depth interview guide, and the case study method. Thematic analysis was employed to analyse the data. The article discusses in detail the challenges CSWs face in terms of economical, psychological and social spheres of their lives.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-25DOI: 10.1177/09746862221082174
S. Muralidhar
Based on a talk by the author, the article seeks to sketch the work and contribution of Professor Lotika Sarkar, the first woman law teacher of the Delhi University. A much sought after teacher, with a progressive outlook, Professor Sarkar mentored several generations of law scholars, teachers and judges. The article speaks of Professor Sarkar’s seminal contribution as member of the Committee on the Status of Women in India. Her chapter on ‘women and the law’ formed a significant part of the Committee’s 1975 report. Professor Sarkar joined three other eminent law teachers in penning an Open Letter to the Chief Justice of India, on September 16, 1979, in the wake of the Tukaram case. This letter paved the way for significant changes in law relating to custodial rape. The issues that Professor Sarkar worked on are of contemporary relevance to any serious legal scholar looking for a reference point, and the right questions to ask.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-21DOI: 10.1177/09715215221082187
Anindya Bahttacharyya
This article is an account of the struggles of a man in a patriarchal cultural context, where the idea of childfree men is despised and regularly confronted. Autoethnography is a method and a means to story-telling not only of the struggles that a man faces but also is a living document of the interactions, relationships, acquaintances and family regarding a choice over voluntary parenthood. The idea of voluntary childless men is a rarity in Indian cultural context of compulsory motherhood, especially in a pronatalist culture. Women’s struggles have been documented but it is rarely that a man’s position is located.
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