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Networking and Advocacy of Centre for Women’s Development Studies

In pursuit of its central objective for gender equality, women’s right and improvement of women’s status, the Centre from the very beginning resorted to advocacy with organs of government, academic establishments and civil society organisations. Advocacy and networking efforts in the area of public policy, for bringing about positive policy changes for poor women and for rights of women and children were maintained during 2004-05. For instance, in its current campaign against Sex Selection leading to elimination of female foetuses, the Centre developed partnership with various formations/ groups and with individuals - in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Rajasthan. Several donor organisations like WHO, British High commission, Population Foundation for India etc. supported this campaign financially and organisationally.

 

Action Research of Centre for Women’s Development Studies

Since its inception, an important area of the Centre’s work has been its linkages with rural women and rural community through participatory development action. Such involvement is the evidence of its dual loyalty to social sciences and the women’s movement, and its belief in the expanded role of academic institutions and the notion of social responsibility, academic activism, and non-neutrality of academics. Being influenced by this ideology the Centre began its work ‘for change’ - with poor peasant women and later with elected women members of Panchayat. The Centre has immensely benefited from this participation over the years - often even setting its research agenda, and is witness to the transformative impact on various stakeholders and to the women’s growth in capabilities as a result of their organised collective consciousness.

Collaboration/Partnership with Peasant Women in West Bengal

The story of CWDS’ collaboration/engagement with disadvantaged women/ women’s groups/women’s network in West Bengal is now nearly 25 years old and has been documented in various ways during these past years – through the Centre’s Annual Reports, documentation by individuals –both by participants of the process and by neutral observers, print media, audio-visual etc. – but much more eloquently by word of mouth.

The 25 year old engagement also passed through various phases with expansion being a common trait. Each phase posed new challenges, offered new experience and lessons, threw up new ideas, hopes and dreams, and provided scope for diversification. While working with women (and men) of various social and ethnic groups such as Adibasis (Santal, Bhumij, Kora, Munda, Sabbar), semi-adibasi communities (Mahato, Deshwali Majhi), artisanal castes, (potters, blacksmiths, basket makers) and other lower Hindu castes –both scheduled and non-scheduled, we learnt how to cope with the social and cultural dimensions affecting our everyday interaction and to observe how and where socio-cultural boundaries are maintained and broken.

 

Research of Centre for Women’s Development Studies

Ever since its inception in 1980, Research has been the backbone of CWDS’s work. It is not a purely academic endeavour but both a means and an end in operationalising Centre’s aims and objectives. The Centre has continuously attempted to combine its research concerns with interventionist approaches. Thus, the notion of academic neutrality and value-free role of academic pursuits was consciously abandoned, and the Centre strove to break out of the dominant mould of social science research. This distinct objective has continuously informed the Centre’s Research agenda over the years.

The Centre, for various practical reasons, has had to limit its choice of research on the basis of its competence, resources and outreach. It has also always attempted to respond to contextual issues in its choice of research.

During 2005-06, following Research projects were underway:

Ongoing Research Projects

Crafting Democratic Citizenship: A Study of the Gender Dimensions of Electoral Governance in India

Gender, Status of Profession and Migration: A Study of Nurses from Kerala in Delhi

Work, Health and Family Life: the Unequal Deal (A Study of Agarbatti Workers in Gaya District of Bihar with Special Reference to Women from Muslim and other Weaker Sections)

Paradigm of Justice Delivery Mechanism with the Perspective of Women Litigants: Empowerment or Victimization?

Gendering of Communal Violence in India: The Historical Production of Backwardness - A Study of Banaras

Signals for a New Phase: Conversations with Three Women Pioneers

Translating Chandrabati (Ramayana twice retold: from 1600 to 2003)

Women’s Studies Reader

Women, Equality and the Indian Republic

Gender and Urban Local Governance in Two Cities - Delhi and Bangalore

Adverse Sex Ratio in Five North Indian States

The Missing Girl Child: National and Global Data

New Research Projects

Gender Dimension of Labour Mobility and Workers’ Right – A Collaborative National Study.

Modern versus Traditional Forms of Women’s Employment: Women’s Well being in India.

Gender Specific Insecurity and Vulnerabilities of Informal Sector Workers: Women Workers in Retail Trade.

Globalisation and Women’s Work: Disaggregated Analysis of NSSO data

Heterodoxy and the idea of Women as independent entities: Kannada Literature 5th-17th Centuries.

Multiple Vulnerabilities and Marginal Identities: Exploring Violence in the everyday lives of Women with Disabilities.

Completed Research Projects

The National Commission for Women: Goals and Experiences in the South Asian Perspective

Women and Vulnerable Groups for the Delhi Development Report

Impact of Globalisation on Women Workers in Delhi

Narratives of the First Generation Women’s Studies’ Scholars

Gender and Changing Livelihood Patterns along the Ganges

A Century of Women’s Expanding Horizon (1849-1947)

Action Research on Vulnerable Women - Scoping documents

Study on Widowhood in India

Gender Development Indicators

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