Volume 18, Issue 1 (2016) Empowering Future Generations of Women and Girls: Empowering Humanity: Select Proceedings from the Second World Conference on Women’s Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Introduction
Articles
Feminizing Responsibility? Women’s ‘Invisible’ Labor and Sub-Contracted Production in South India
K. Kalpana
Signatures of a Collective Self: A Study of Select Contemporary Women Artists from South India
Lakshmi Priya Daniel
Rural Women Artists: A Visual Analysis of the Mural Art Forms of Santhal Pargana, Jharkhand, India
Pallavi Rani, D. Udaya Kumar, Saheb Ram Tudu, and Shilpi Bora
Women Homeworkers in Thailand’s Digital Economy
Kamolrat Intaratat
Prevention of Sexual Harassment of Women in the Workplace: Seeking Gender Equality at Work in India
Trishala Singh
Fetishizing Women: Advertising in Indian Television and its Effects on Target Audiences
Madhusmita Das and Sangeeta Sharma
Protecting Women from Domestic Violence in Assam, India? Evaluating Section 498-A, The Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1983 vs the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA), 2005
Deepshikha Carpenter and Polly Vauquline
Social Media Advertising and Public Awareness: Touching the LGBT Chord!
Gajendra Singh Chauhan and Tanu Shukla
Effects of Armed Conflict on Agricultural Markets and Post-conflict Engagement of Women in Export-led Agriculture in Nepal
Bishnu Raj Upreti, Yamuna Ghale, and Sony KC
“We know the taste of sugar because of cardamom production”: Links among Commercial Cardamom Farming, Women’s Involvement in Production and the Feminization of Poverty
Sony KC, Bishnu Raj Upreti, and Bashu Prasad Subedi
Relevance of Education for Women’s Empowerment in Punjab, Pakistan
Shehzadi Zamurrad Awan
Dignity and Empowerment: An Exploration of the Microcredit Experiences of Women in Rural Bangladesh
Rahima K. Lipi
On-the-Job Stress: Interventions to Improve the Occupational Well-being of Policewomen in Assam, India
Shilpi Bora, Abhirup Chatterjee, Pallavi Rani, and Debkumar Chakrabarti
Buddhism and Women-The Dhamma Has No Gender
Chand R. Sirimanne
Tracing Variegated Streaks of Feminism in The French Lieutenant’s Woman through Pinteresque Jigsaw
Pushp Lata, Sanjay Kumar, and Sonal Bhagat
JIWS Executive Staff
- Executive Editors
- Diana Fox, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
- Cami Sanderson, Ferris State University, MI, USA
- Copy Editor
- Daisha Cohen, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA