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How have the women’s movements made the presence of women in every moment felt and more women participation in various fields? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2026
  • 20 marks
  • Social Movements in Modern India

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Alain Touraine reads new social movements as struggles over identity, recognition and the direction a society gives itself rather than over the distribution of goods alone. The Indian women's movement fits that description: its central achievement has been to change what counts as a public matter, turning women from objects of reform into visible political…

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  • Making the private public: how women's presence came to be felt
  • Widening the fields of participation
  • Where presence has not yet become power
  • Conclusion
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