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Discuss the impact of post-1970 feminist movement on Indian middle class.
- UPSC 2015
- Social Movements in Modern India
The autonomous women's movement that emerged after Towards Equality (1974), the report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India, drew its cadre from educated urban women, and it is on that same middle class that its impact has been deepest. It reshaped middle-class consciousness, family life and occupational choice — but ambivalently,…
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- A movement with a middle-class base
- What changed inside the middle-class household
- Knowledge, work and self-definition
- Ambivalence and limits
- Conclusion
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