Srotaswini : A peer-reviewed Biennial Bilingual Research Journal

 Submission of papers for Srotaswini Vol. VII is closed. No further submissions later than 15/11/2023 shall be entertained.

 TOWARDS WELLNESS: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH ON WOMEN’S HEALTH

Women today, likened to the image of heroines in the capacity of scientists, engineers, firefighters, inventors, police officers, entrepreneurs, astronauts, authors, educators or in any other position may not surprise us anymore. Amidst the success and accolades, achievements and fair recognition; women still are not able to liberate themselves from the so called “care roles” that are disproportionately socially conditioned. While the contemporary society identifies them as essential care-givers, women’s health in isolation has attracted great attention in the recent times. In this, one can understand women’s health as a discursive field which is often defined by others rather than themselves. In a larger context, one may start by accepting the fact that the health of women will necessarily differ from that of men in various or unique ways and therefore is largely emphasized as women’s health. This will then take us closer to several factors, dimensions and aspects of women’s health problems situated in much larger social, cultural and political forces that shape as well as constrain women’s lives in varying degrees. For this, an examination of macrostructures- from patriarchy to globalization, poverty and political despotism can probably be treated as the sine qua non of a critical study.

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AIMS AND SCOPE

Srotaswini is a Peer-Reviewed Bienniel Bilingual Research Journal published under the aegis of the J.B.College Women Cell which aims to provide a space to disseminate multidisciplinary academic research centering on women-related issues. Since its inception in 2013, it has been publishing relevant articles related to the condition and status of women, recovering women’s history and writings with a view to empowering them. Each issue of Srotaswini deals with a particular broad theme along with sub-themes and the authors/contributors have sought to highlight the theme of each volume through multidimensional perspectives.

The scope of the journal seeks to ensure the advancement of the status of women and the dismantling of the systems and ideologies which keep them subordinate. The onus is on changing the mindset related to gender with the socio-cultural definition given to women and men which determine their rights and responsibilities, work, and space. The four volumes of Srotaswini have dealt with broad themes like women and conflict, women in multicultural spaces, contested conceptions of gender, and gender as an analytical category. Most of the articles of the journal point to the interplay of gender with other markers of social positioning like class, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc.

The journal aims to address key characteristics of women studies like Interdisciplinarity, Nonconformity, and Reflectivity and at the same time, it seeks to include themes of debate and concern on re-positionings, domains of power, governance, legality, social/geographical mobility, scientific/technological engagements and familial relations in India and abroad.