Language: EnglishPages: 287About the Book Based on a large of interviews withwomen politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tirepanchayati raj institutions since the mid-1990s in Kerala, this book tries tointiate fresh debate on the impact of the large-scale induction of women intothe institutions of local self-government in India. The state of Kerala hasbeen hailed as a success story in accommodating gender concerns in local levelplanning and political decentralization; this conclusion has been based onrelatively simple evaluative exercises that ask whether women of diversebackgrounds have gained entry into formal institutions of governance or not.This book seeks to place political decentralization and its possibilities forwomen within its historical and contemporary contexts. Against the popularassumption that the liberal feminist promise made by the state will bedelivered, say, once the noxious influence of male relatives is removed, thebook points to the multiple social forces that shape possibilities andhindrances for women, and reshape gender divisions in the political field. Thebook thus pays attention to women in both local governance and politics,Secondly, it examines how women have utilized, extended, and survived within orsubverted these spaces. At the time when there is a move to reserve fiftypercent of the seats at the local level for women and there is, simultaneously,considerable skepticism about reservations for women in parliament, this bookoffers reflections on both local governance and high politics. About the Author J Devika teaches and researches at the

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