Overview
- Is a highly relevant and engaging book on SDG5 and its targets
- Offers a well-argued innovative and intersectional approach throughout the chapters
- Presents state-of-the-art overview concerning the implementation of SDG5 globally and in India
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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About this book
This book offers a unique intersectional perspective on gender equality, SDG5. It presents an intersection of gender with caste, class, region, ethnic and sexual identities, and other structural drivers of inequalities in various development sectors. It presents case studies and empirical findings from development practice and policymaking and highlights the challenges to implementing SDG5 in practice. It discusses policies to promote gender equality and prevent violence against women and girls, and women in decision-making and leadership positions. The chapters reinstate that gender equality is possible only if unequal gender norms are transformed to recognize women and girls as independent economic entities and not merely homemakers providing unpaid care. It also analyzes to deconstruct the idea of monolithic masculinity to recognize gender diversity and men’s role in providing care. The book shows how much has been achieved, yet how far is also left to go. It is an essential reference point for researchers, policymakers, students, and scholars across gender studies, women’s studies, and sociology.
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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SDG 5: How Real? How Sustainable?
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Women’s Economic Empowerment and Leadership: Non-negotiables
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Gendered Violence: Continuing Barrier
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Women’s Health and Self-care: Corner Stones for Gender Equality
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ravi Verma, Ph.D., is Regional Director, International Center for Research on Women. Dr. Verma taught for over two decades at a premier demographic institution, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, prior to joining International Center for Research on Women as a regional director, has published extensively on the intersectional nature of gender in reputed and high impact journals, served as a member, High-level Committee on the Status of Women, during 2013-16 and currently serves as a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on ‘Gender and Global Health’.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transforming Unequal Gender Relations in India and Beyond
Book Subtitle: An Intersectional Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities
Editors: Saroj Pachauri, Ravi K. Verma
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4086-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4085-1Published: 09 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-4088-2Published: 10 September 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-4086-8Published: 08 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LV, 404
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Gender Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Human Rights