Women's Struggle: A History of the All India Women's Conference 1927-2016 (Third Edition)

Author:

Aparna Basu

,

Bharati Ray

Publisher:

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

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Publisher

MANOHAR PUBLISHERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

Publication Year 2018
ISBN-13

9788193779415

ISBN-10 9788193779415
Binding

Hardcover

Edition Third Edition
Number of Pages 338 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 22x14x2.5
Weight (grms) 572

The All India Women’s Conference completed ninety years in 2017. The first edition of this book was brought out in 1990 when it had completed sixty years. The volume was widely appreciated as little work had been done on the history of women’s organizations and their contribution to women’s development. A second edition was published when AIWC celebrated its Platinum Jubilee in 2002-3. These editions were cited in numerous books and articles in journals of women’s history in India and abroad.


This third edition carries the story of AIWC forward for little over a decade from 2002-3 onwards. Founded in 1927 in Poona, AIWC’s main goal initially was promoting women’s education. But it soon took up issues of social legislation and social reform. In the last decade, it has taken up new programmes such as adoption of villages and empowerment of rural women, formation of self help groups, encouraging skill training and vocational courses, starting a legal cell, initiating projects in rural sanitation, clean water, and waste management, herbal gardens, disaster management, etc. It has conducted courses in retail marketing. Its library now has a research centre, an excellent archival collection and holds book discussions. In 2010, AIWC set up three trusts for literacy, health and old age and elderly care for the underprivileged and economically weaker sections. AIWC is also actively involved in the issue of climate change.

Aparna Basu

Late Dr Aparna Basu was the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum, Raj Ghat, New Delhi. Formerly a Professor of History at University of Delhi, Dr Basu obtained her BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her MA from George Washington University, USA. She has written widely on women’s history and history of education. She was on the editorial board of Indian Economic and Social History Review and also on the Advisory Board of the Indian Journal of Gender Studies. She has published biographies of Mridula Sarabhai, G.L. Mehta, Abbas Tyabji, and Kasturba Gandhi, and has been a Fellow of St. Antony’s College and Queen Elizabeth House Oxford and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK.

Bharati Ray

Bharati Ray was the first woman Pro Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University and founder Director of its Women’s Studies Research Centre.
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