Interview with Vina Mazumdar
dc.contributor.author | Global Feminisms Project | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-09-06T17:43:02Z | |
dc.date.available | 2007-09-06T17:43:02Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2003-07-13 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/55726 | |
dc.description | The Global Feminisms Project (http://www.umich.edu/~glblfem/en/index.html) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include: - Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL - China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA - SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA - Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA - Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLAND | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Vina Mazumdar was born in 1927 and educated at Calcutta, Banaras, and Oxford. She is an Honours Graduate and D.Phil from Oxford University. In her professional career she has been a teacher of Political Science in the Universities of Patna and Berhampur, an Officer in the UGC Secretariat and Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla. She was Member Secretary, Committee on the Status of Women in India, and later Director, Programme of Women's Studies, Indian Council of Social Science Research for five years (1975-80). She was founder-Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi from 1980 to 1991, and thereafter was Senior Fellow at CWDS and JP Naik National Fellow, ICSSR for two years. She is one of the pioneers in Women’s Studies in India and a leading figure of the women’s movement. Since 1996 she has been the Chairperson, Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The ‘Global Feminisms Project' was funded, beginning in 2002, by a major grant from the Rackham Graduate School, with additional funding provided by the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan. | en_US |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Global Feminisms India Site Interview | en_US |
dc.subject | Global, Feminism, Feminists, Intersectionality, Cross-cultural, India, Indian Feminists | en_US |
dc.title | Interview with Vina Mazumdar | en_US |
dc.type | Learning Object | en_US |
dc.type | Video | en_US |
dc.type | Other | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Women's and Gender Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Humanities | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Research on Women and Gender | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
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dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55726/3/Mazumdar_I_E_102806.pdf | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55726/2/CM_Mazumdar.pdf | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/55726/8/Mazumdar_NTSC_FFmpeg.mp4 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Global Feminisms Project |
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