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Synopsis Communication and Empowerment of Women: Strategies and Policy Insights from India (In 2 Volumes) addresses the interrelationships between communication strategies and policies for women’s empowerment from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book seeks to raise social consciousness on women, redefine agendas and rethink strategies that will empower women. The chapters in the book link theory, policy, strategy and practice in communication and women’s development as communication forms an intrinsic core of all strategies designed for women’s empowerment. Another major focus of the book brings insights of women’s empowerment experience from several states of India that could provide the inspiration in other pockets of the country as well as in other developing countries. The book begins with a rethinking of communication policy for empowering women in India focusing on the communication strategies to improve the status of women. The second section presents a wide spectrum of insights from selected states features of communication and women’s empowerment and integrates them together. The third section addresses threadbare the issues of women’s health and communication policy for initiating behaviour change among women to raise their quality of life. The fourth section explores several successful cases of media strategies and women’s empowerment through the current welfare programmes of the Centre and state governments. The last section presents several interesting questions and issues raised by women who are involved in communication experiments. The interdisciplinary scope of the book makes it an ideal text for a wide range of disciplines including communication, women’s studies, development studies, population studies, sociology, social work, community health, extension studies, rural development and social policy. It raises several fundamental questions on women’s empowerment and communication policy for furthering research and action studies to improve women’s quality of life.