Women in public life in Bombay city with special references to the civil disobedience movement

Abstract

The thesis deals with the transition in the role of woman in the life of Bombay City. It deals particularly with the creation of new social roles for women and the extent of change in the function of those roles over a period of some twenty odd years particularly the 1920's and 1930's. While it takes into account the changing situation of women within the household, it focuses on the role of those women l<iho played a part in shaping the public institutions of the city. It deals primarily with middle class women. It depicts the situation of woman within a social structure of sex segregation and examines the shifts in that structure towards desegregation using the concepts of the separate female space, the extended female space and a common space.