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This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city
of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study
that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who
work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower
women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus
on grassroots women who are the beneficiaries of NGO and
developmental projects, this book looks at those women who, as
volunteers and activists, help carry out these projects to the best
of their abilities. These women are often overlooked from
mainstream studies on women in developing nations. But their role
is invaluable and crucial in defining the agendas and strategies
used to enhance feminist consciousness and developing
organizational structures. This book is significant because it
offers awareness and alternative views to the challenges (and
motivations) faced by middle and upper-class women volunteers and
activists in building a career in the non-profit sector of NGOs in
Kolkata. Through the testimonies of these women, it examines
alternative processes of agency and change in order to define these
challenges and motivations. Also revealed by the analysis, is
useful information about the oppression and subordination of these
women in contemporary gender-stratified civil society in India. But
more importantly, this book examines the various ways urban,
educated Indian women construct a feminist praxis in terms of their
everyday lived experiences as volunteers and activists. In terms of
their lived experiences, the women in this study reflect on the
social challenges they encounter and motivations they experience as
volunteers and activists, while also discussing their understanding
of feminism and views on the image of a "feminist" in the
postcolonial context. The results demonstrate the power of feminist
standpoint theorizing and how it raises consciousness, empowers
women and stimulates resistance to patriarchal oppression and
injustices. Finally, this book produces new knowledge and research
on the conception of feminism among women volunteers and activists
in a non-western setting and how they construct the image of a
feminist. It offers directions for research in transnational
feminism, International Women's Movement, Womanism, and Social
Inequality Studies.
This book is the outcome of a study conducted in the eastern city
of Kolkata in India in the mid-2000s. It is an ethnographic study
that looks closely at women from the upper and middle classes who
work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that help empower
women from all classes of society. Unlike many studies that focus
on grassroots women who are the beneficiaries of NGO and
developmental projects, this book looks at those women who, as
volunteers and activists, help carry out these projects to the best
of their abilities. These women are often overlooked from
mainstream studies on women in developing nations. But their role
is invaluable and crucial in defining the agendas and strategies
used to enhance feminist consciousness and developing
organizational structures. This book is significant because it
offers awareness and alternative views to the challenges (and
motivations) faced by middle and upper-class women volunteers and
activists in building a career in the non-profit sector of NGOs in
Kolkata. Through the testimonies of these women, it examines
alternative processes of agency and change in order to define these
challenges and motivations. Also revealed by the analysis, is
useful information about the oppression and subordination of these
women in contemporary gender-stratified civil society in India. But
more importantly, this book examines the various ways urban,
educated Indian women construct a feminist praxis in terms of their
everyday lived experiences as volunteers and activists. In terms of
their lived experiences, the women in this study reflect on the
social challenges they encounter and motivations they experience as
volunteers and activists, while also discussing their understanding
of feminism and views on the image of a "feminist" in the
postcolonial context. The results demonstrate the power of feminist
standpoint theorizing and how it raises consciousness, empowers
women and stimulates resistance to patriarchal oppression and
injustices. Finally, this book produces new knowledge and research
on the conception of feminism among women volunteers and activists
in a non-western setting and how they construct the image of a
feminist. It offers directions for research in transnational
feminism, International Women's Movement, Womanism, and Social
Inequality Studies.
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