Introduction: Overarching Women’s Empowerment

Asok Kumar Sarkar () and Satyajit Das Gupta ()
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Asok Kumar Sarkar: Visva-Bharati University
Satyajit Das Gupta: Legal Aid Services, West Bengal

Chapter Chapter 1 in Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia, 2024, pp 1-15 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The discernible multi-dimensionality of the concepts of “empowerment” in general and “women’s empowerment” in particular has had inherently evolving historical and cultural connotations across several academic disciplines and varied geo-political domains of practical application. Beginning with a panoramic exercise in the conceptualization of the notion of women’s empowerment, this introductory essay goes into a critically thematic exposition of the main arguments and contentions of the contributions under the following headings—“Women’s Engagements and Encounters in History, Theory and Society” and “Violating Women: Empowerment Against Abuse, Assaults and Abandonment.”

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7538-6_1

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