Fighting for a Voice

The talk that follows will shed light on the wide gap that exists between the rhetoric on women's empowerment professed by the state and the reality of their existence.

Fighting for a Voice: Matriliny, Gender and the State in the Hill Society of North-East India

Friday, June 11, 2010
10am
MLK Jr. Cultural Center

Tiplut Nongbri will be presenting a talk on matriliny, gender and the state in the Hill Society of North-East India. She will show a short video on the struggle of the women's movement in Meghalaya against the state's undemocratic practices and denial of rights to women to participate in policy formulation.  The talk that follows will shed light on the wide gap that exists between the rhetoric on women's empowerment professed by the state and the reality of their existence.

Nongbri is a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  She completed her MA and Ph.D at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and is the author of several books, including Gender, Matriliny and Entrepreneurship, Development, Ethnicity and Gender: Select Essays on Tribes in Indi, and A Situational Analysis of Women in the State of Meghalaya.

This talk is sponsored by the UK Appalachian Center and the UK Manipur Interest Group.