Until the twentieth century, science was populated almost exclusively by men, and thus the phrase 'men of science' was almost equivalent to the non-sex-linked tag 'scientists'. What is remarkable is that for the first seventy years of last century there was little change in the proportion of scientists that was female. Women in Science; Femininity, Space and the Female Body-An Anthropological Perspective; Producing Women: Hippocratic Gynaecology; Maria Winkelmann: The Clash between Guild Traditions and Professional Science; Women in Mirror: The Rhetoric of Adornment in the roman World; Women, Family Health and Folk Medicine; A Scientific Religion and Its Women Founder; Women in Scientific Instrument Trade; Women, Medicine and sanitary Reform; Mesmerism, Medicine and Harriet Martneau; Women writers on Science; Science and Technology; Women as Agent in Energy; Women Health and Nutrition, etc.; are the main themes contained in this book.

Entrepreneurship among women is an emerging recent phenomenon. It is the process of creating value by attracting together a unique package of resources to exploit an opportunity. Nowadays governments have identified the emerging features of micro enterprises as a new dimension and its results are more benefit to the economy. Micro credit programme will empower women by strengthening their economic roles, increasing their ability to contribute income to family and giving them experience and self-confidence in the public sphere, exposer to income earning activities. Women need credit for skill upgradation, training and entrepreneurial development. The impact of women empowerment would occur by the use of participatory learning approach (PLA) for integrating women's own priorities and strategies in the mainstream of development. This study is aimed at stimulating an inquiry into the favourable circumstances for women to venture, motivational factors, socio-economic and managerial aspects of tangible and intangible benefits of the women micro enterprises in Karnataka state in India. The study also represents physical and financial achievements of various institutions who extended support credit for women entrepreneurial development in the state.

The Encyclopaedia of Criminology covers all aspects of Criminal Justice System, from definition of technical terms of characterizations of criminal sociology and movements. Geared towards students, teachers, readers, law makers and people associated with law alike, this work explain critical jargon, schools of criminal theory, criminal forms and genres and examines history, origin of well-known phrases, and much, much more. Terms from criminal Sociology and Anthropology are also covered. Scholarly, straightforward and comprehensive, this volume will prove a veritable mine of information.

Women represent half the world's human resources. Though women perform different roles [reproduction (only women), household (housework, food preparation, child earning,.), and productive (income generating activities)], women continue to be mainly responsible for 'care economy'. This study makes an attempt to understand the nature and impact of STEP programme on women and to draw lessons for future policy exercises. The specific objectives of the study are: (1) to study performance of 'all women dairy cooperative societies' (WDCSs) in different agro-climatic regions; (2) to calculate quantitative and qualitative changes in women covered under STEP programme; (3) to observe the differential decision making pattern of farm women in various animal husbandry tasks; (4) to develop an empowerment scale for scale for women dairy farmers; and (5) to document working of self-help groups among respondents.