EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN INDIA
Despite the best efforts of the exponents of social movement theory, the dynamics of empowerment of women in India has not been (re)visited to lend specificity to the Indian gender mainstreaming strategies. So the Indian post feminist efforts to engender a gender just society by empowering women, critical symbols of continued subalternship, need to be put under post feminist scanners. Against this backdrop, it is mooted that the principal aim of this paper is to (re)defme empowerment of women in India as an open ended process aiming at the felicitating (i) abolition of gender based discrimination in all institutions and structures of the India society and (ii) participation of women in policy and decisionmaking processes at private and public levels of assorted activities, qualified by all dyadic relations among mind, matter, politics of knowledge, gender politics, and poetics of lack and desire. 1. Statement of the Problem With reference to the commonplace paradox of very social interpretation of the Indian women, it can be submitted that the activities of most of the Indian women, by and large inferiorized and devalorized, have been mostly circumscribed because of the invidious distinctions which the Indian MCPs (Male Chauvinist Prigs) very often allude to with a view to re specifying the non essentialist nuances of the womanliness of the Indian women. Though the nation's identify does lay in the culture and more specifically in its womanhood, the Indian male supremacists have, very smugly, denigrated 'female exclusiveness' So most of the Indian women have been suffering from the lack of self and space, disempowerment, disprivilege, disadvantage, sexist discrimination, gender inequity, invisibility, asymmetries, marginal ization, devalorizaiton and reification. Concomitantly, over the years, their development/empowerment has been neglected inspite of the populist gimmicks of the 'welfarists' and advocates of feminisms and postfeminisms. Despite the best efforts of the exponents of social movement theory, the dynamics of empowerment of women in India has not been (re)visited to lend specificity to the Indian gender mainstreaming strategies. So the Indian post feminist efforts to engender 'a gender just society' by empowering women, critical symbols of continued subalternship, need to be put under post feminist scanners.