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Western feminism created a revolution on the international stage urging the world to look at things through the perspective of women who were historically suppressed because of their gender, yet in many instances, it failed to address the issue of women in the Indian subcontinent because of the existence of social hierarchies that are alien concepts to the western world. As a result, the impact of western feminist thinkers was limited to only the elites in the Indian subcontinent. The idea of social hierarchy is infamously unique to the South Asian context and hence, in the view of the authors, this evil has to be fought through homegrown approaches which have to address these double disadvantages that women suffer in this part of the world. While many have tried to characterize Ambedkar’s political and social philosophy into one of the ideological labels, his philosophy was essentially ‘a persistent attempt to think things through’. It becomes important here to understand what made...

The actuality of the topic, its extent and importance were strong reasons for writing this paper-Reproductive Rights and Women's Health: A New Prospective. To this, the description of the topic is based on the social and legal position of women especially in India. The stereotype position of women and the changing dimension of women's struggle for their rights in modern world has made this topic more interesting. It is even more useful as reproductive right is central to women's right and their freedom. Emancipation of women is incomplete without assuring them reproductive rights. It is only when women have control over their body they can exercise all other rights. Women will be physically and mentally free when they will be able to take decision regarding their body themselves. Various human rights of women can be acquired only when they can exercise their reproductive rights.