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Abstract : The article examines the rate of growth of population, marital status of females, fertility levels and trend of sex ratio in the state of Kerala. The major factors that determine the growth of population. such as education and…
A Abstract: The article attempts to read a ritual and three literary works relating the socio-religious institution of sacrifice and the recently evolved/evolving literary critical practice of ecological feminism. The texts analyzed here — the ritual ponkaala and three…
Abstract: Phoolan Devi has been proclaimed a perpetrator of crime and violence and hence declaimed by the masses in India. An interesting fact is her establishment as a favourite cult figure and her deification as a reincarnation of Durga and…
Abstract: The article attempts to analyse the intricacies of the mother -daugher relationship in the fiction of prominent Marathi women writers. Depiction of mothers and daughters in the fiction of Vibhavari Shirukar, Kamal Desai, Gauri Deshpande and Saniya are discussed…
Abstract: ‘Woman as Body’ interrogates the body/ mind divide in all Western thinking and the hierarchical binaries relegating the body to the female and the mind to the male. The subversion of this traditional hierarchy is effected in feminist theory…
Abstract: The paper argues that the concept of the tribe is modern. It is a term coined during colonial rule. The history of constructing the tribe in India has both colonial and indigenous roots. Colonialism is important in the…
Abstract: The paper attempts to study the changes in the labour force in India during the last few decades. The participation of women in economic activity in rural and urban areas is also subjected to analysis. The paper concludes with…
Abstract : Female emigration is very culture specific and it is not very common in Kerala. This paper attempts to put together the information collected on female emigration from Kerala in two recent studies. During 1999-2004, the percent increase in…
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to find out whether there exists an apparent contradiction with regard to high female literacy levels and other indicators of women’s position in the state of Kerala. An important question to be answered…
The Seventh one, Why did you have to barge In the house where the kitchen chimney is perennially cold? The little body afloat on the still water of the pond. Exclaimed the trees all around craning downward, Doesn’t she resemble…