Women’s Empowerment and Non-Governmental Public Action in South Asia

This book unravels the juggernaut of academic and civil society perspectives and issues relating to women’s empowerment. Drawing upon contributions from serving and retired academics with substantial experience of NGO-run women’s care and justice activities, it seeks to generate new ideas and insights on the problematic of a knowledge enterprise involving several hugely intractable entitlements and violations South Asian women have experienced in historical and contemporary times. The book aims to generate substantial intellectual resources for yet another stimulating churning of interest and enthusiasm among policy makers, academics, social activists, development functionaries, students and inclined laypersons concerned with women’s studies in general and the multifaceted ordeal of women’s empowerment in particular.

Satyajit Das Gupta has been associated with Legal Aid Services - West Bengal, Human Rights Law Network, India and the Calcutta University’s Women’s Studies Research Centre. He has lectured and published widely on problems of domestic violence, women’s access to justice and counselling for women in distress.

Asok Kumar Sarkar is Head, Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati, India and Chairperson of the International Consortium for Social Development -Asia Pacific Branch (ICSDAP). His publications include NGOs-The New Lexicon of Health Care (2005), NGOs and Globalization (Co- Edited, 2008), Human Development and Sustainability: Challenges and Strategies (Co-Edited, 2017), Welfare of Disadvantaged: Exploring Community Development Approach (Co-Edited, 2018), and Contextualizing Peace - Experiences of Contemporary India and Neighbouring Countries (Co- Edited, 2021). He is the founding editor of ’Journal of Social Work and Social Development’, a UGC-CARE-listed Indian journal and had served from 2010 to 2017.