Shakti power of women /
Taking inspiration from the spiritual concept of Shakti, the Great Mother or supreme female deity of the Hindu religion, this program celebrates the power of women to drive social and economic change in India. Female-centric activism propels an organization that combats the practice of child marriag...
| Other Authors: | Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm), Infobase., New Atlantis (Firm) |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English Hindi |
| Published: |
New York, N.Y. :
Infobase,
[2006], c2004.
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| Physical Description: |
1 streaming video file (54 min.) : sd., col., digital file. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- India's Women and Shakti (4:07)
- Child Marriage (4:03)
- Degradation of Females (4:25)
- Children and Marriage (1:54)
- Women's Association (SEWA) (2:58)
- SEWA Bank for Poor Women (3:49)
- SEWA: Giving Women Their Futures (2:37)
- SEWA: Supporting Women's Work (2:20)
- Eco-Feminism (3:10)
- Organic Farming (3:25)
- Corporate Agribusiness and World Hunger (2:21)
- Green Revolution (2:35)
- Dalit: Exploited Caste (3:16)
- Dalit Story of Rape (3:31)
- Dignity for the Dalit Caste (3:17)
- Human Rights and India's Caste System (4:03)