Gender In South Asia And Beyond

Author : Leela Fernandes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000471281

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Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia by Leela Fernandes Pdf

This new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia. The Handbook covers the central contributions that have defi ned this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives spanning both the humanities and social sciences, focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This revised edition has been thoroughly updated and includes new chapters, thus adding new areas of scholarship. The Handbook is organized thematically into five major parts: • Historical formations and theoretical framings • Law, citizenship and the nation • Representations of culture, place, identity • Labor and the economy • Inequality, activism and the state The Handbook illustrates the ways in which scholarship on gender has contributed to a rethink of theoretical concepts and empirical understandings of contemporary South Asia. Finally, it focuses on new areas of inquiry that have been opened up through a focus on gender and the intersections between gender and categories, such as caste, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. This timely study is essential reading for scholars who research and teach on South Asia as well as for scholars in related interdisciplinary fields that focus on women and gender from comparative and transnational perspectives.

Author : Radhika Govinda,Shruti Chaudhry,Hugo Gorringe
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789390514489

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Gender in South Asia And Beyond by Radhika Govinda,Shruti Chaudhry,Hugo Gorringe Pdf

For over 40 years, Professor Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita in Sociology, University of Edinburgh, carried out pioneering research, individually and in partnership with her colleagues. The range of subjects she covered includes gender and development, especially childbearing, women’s reproductive rights, social demography in South Asia, Indian society, gender and communal politics, education and the reproduction of inequality; race and ethnicity. Her books, including Frogs in a Well: Indian Women in Purdah (1979) and Appropriating Gender: Women’s Activism, Politicized Religion and the State in South Asia (edited with Amrita Basu, 1998) inspired peers and future scholars alike. In this volume, we bring together a range of new research that is inspired by and intersects with Professor Jeffery’s work. The chapters offer new data, refreshing insights and original analysis on subjects of contemporary importance in the fields of gender, health, marginalization and development.

Author : Rita Manchanda
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015053525294

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Women, War and Peace in South Asia by Rita Manchanda Pdf

Perhaps the first to develop a gender analysis of conflict in South Asia, this volume challenges the centrality of men s experiences and theorisations of conflict. Instead, it focuses on women s experiences as representing alternative and non-violent ways negotiating the construction of conflictual identities and on women s perspectives which privilege the notion of a just peace. This vital and timely contribution to an understanding of women s neglected yet crucial role in times of war and peace highlights the way in which women manage survival and reconstruction. It will interest students and scholars of gender studies, conflict and peace studies, political science and psychology as well as the lay reader .

Author : Pourya Asl, Moussa
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668436288

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Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women by Pourya Asl, Moussa Pdf

In the past century, South Asia underwent fundamental cultural, social, and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region, drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations. Gender, Place, and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender, place, and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality, spatial and social justice, women empowerment, marginalization, and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative, spatial mobility, and diasporic women’s lives, this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, researchers, activists, government officials, business leaders, academicians, feminist organizations, sociologists, and researchers.

Author : Subhadra Channa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107043619

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Gender in South Asia by Subhadra Channa Pdf

The book theorizes gender in terms of models generalizing upon historical sources and lived realities.

Author : Sourav Kumar Nag
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1032776927

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Disease and Discrimination by Sourav Kumar Nag Pdf

"This book examines disease in the context of gender discrimination. It highlights and explores how socio-economic, political, cultural, and gender dimensions play a crucial role in understanding and defining disease. Through two broad categories - non-literary and literary - the volume discusses concerns such as media representation of gender, racial violence, domestic violence, and healthcare discrimination during Covid-19 pandemic, and focuses on the literary representation of gender discrimination related to diseases within and beyond South Asia. The chapters are based on fieldwork, demographic investigations, and statistics that offer a clear and comprehensive insight into the problems. This book will be beneficial to students and researchers of gender studies, pandemic studies, literature, anthropology, social sciences, and disease humanities"--

Author : Suzanne Fisher Staples
Publisher : Ember
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307977885

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Shabanu by Suzanne Fisher Staples Pdf

The Newbery Honor winner about a heroic Pakistani girl that The Boston Globe called “Remarkable . . . a riveting tour de force.” Life is both sweet and cruel to strong-willed young Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Desert of Pakistan. The second daughter in a family with no sons, she’s been allowed freedoms forbidden to most Muslim girls. But when a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she’s dreamed of. Should she do what is necessary to uphold her family’s honor—or listen to the stirrings of her own heart? A New York Times Notable Book “Staples has accomplished a small miracle in her touching and powerful story.” —The New York Times

Author : Anuradha M. Chenoy
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015055844172

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Militarism and Women in South Asia by Anuradha M. Chenoy Pdf

The Book Traces The Course Of Militarism In Several South Asian States, With A More Detailed Account Of Women`S Experiences Of It In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh And Sri Lanka. Presents Not Only The Phenomenon Of Growing Militarinism In South Asia But All Its Ramifications Across The Region From Feminist Perspective For The First Time.

Author : Rita Manchanda
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353289548

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Women and Politics of Peace by Rita Manchanda Pdf

This book discusses the experiences of women negotiating conflict and post-conflict situations to deliver transformative peace. Inspired by the vision and values of women of the South Asian Peace Network, this volume fills a critical gap in the global Women, Peace and Security (WPS) discourse. The chapters focus on the region's multifaceted experiences and feminist expertise on women negotiating post-war/post-conflict situations structured around interlinked themes - women, participation and peacebuilding; militarization and violent peace; and justice, impunity, and accountability. This volume looks at the efforts of women trying to deliver a transformative peace that questions gendered power relations while confronting the socio-cultural barriers that prevent them from participating in rebuilding conflict-affected societies to bring about just peace.

Author : Deipica Bagchi,Saraswati Raju
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134522439

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Women and Work in South Asia by Deipica Bagchi,Saraswati Raju Pdf

Women's work is central to the social and economic aspirations of the countries of South Asia. Their contribution to agriculture, industry and services is critical. However, planners and policy makers frequently ignore women's economic roles, drawing simplistic conclusions from inadequate data. Women and Work in South Asia provides a cross-cultural perspective on research on women's work in South Asia. Integrating macro and micro analysis, Asian and Western contributors analyse the inadequacies of official statistics and explore, through case studies, the cultural and socio-economic position of women at work in the region.

Author : Shilpa Daithota Bhat
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498577632

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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing by Shilpa Daithota Bhat Pdf

This anthology of essays, deliberates chiefly on the notion of locating home through the lens of the mythical idea of Trishanku, implying in-between space and homing, in diaspora women’s narratives, associated with the South Asian region. The idea of in-between space has been used differently in various cultures but gesture prominently on the connotation of ‘hanging’ between worlds. Historically, imperialism and the indentured/ ‘grimit’ system, triggered dispersal of labourers to the various colonies of the British. Of course, this was not the only cause of international migratory processes. The partition of India and Pakistan led to large scale migration. There was Punjabi migration to Canada. Several Indians, particularly the Gujaratis travelled to Africa for business reasons. South Indians travelled to the Gulf for employment. There were migrations to East Asian countries under the kangani system. Again, these were not the only reasons. The process of demographic movement from South Asia, has been complex due to innumerable push-pull factors. The subsequent generations of migrants included the twice, thrice (and likewise) displaced members of the diaspora. Racial denigration and Orientalist perceptions plagued their lives. They belonged to various ethnicities and races, inhabited marginalized spaces and strived to acculturate in the host society. Complete cultural assimilation was not possible, creating layered and hyphenated identities. These intricate social processes resulted in amalgamation and cross-pollination of cultures, inter-racial relationships and hybridization in all terrains of culture—language, music, fashion, cuisine and so on. Situated in this matrix was the notion of Home—a special personal space which an individual could feel as belonging to, very strongly. Nostalgia, loss of home, culture shock and interracial encounters problematized this discernment of belongingness and home. These multifarious themes have been captured by women writers from the South Asian region and this book looks at the various aspects related to negotiating home in their narratives.

Author : Farha Bano Ternikar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793649409

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Intersectionality in the Muslim South Asian-American Middle Class by Farha Bano Ternikar Pdf

This book uses everyday consumption as a lens to analyze how South Asian Muslim American women negotiate racial, religious, gendered, classed, and often political identities. In particular, Ternikar examines the use of food and clothing as well as social media accounts among this important immigrant population, offering new insight that goes beyond examining Muslim American women through the lens of hijab. This timely and nuanced interdisciplinary study draws on both sociology of consumption theory and intersectional feminism and will be valuable for courses in gender and women’s studies, sociology of consumption, and women and religion.

Author : Bina Agarwal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Land reform
ISBN : 8185618631

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A Field of One's Own by Bina Agarwal Pdf

Author : Ania Loomba,Ritty A. Lukose
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822351795

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South Asian Feminisms by Ania Loomba,Ritty A. Lukose Pdf

This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.

Author : Paula Banerjee,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353881641

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Women in Indian Borderlands by Paula Banerjee,Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury Pdf

Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with borders, and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms. They show how most of the traditional efforts to make geopolitical regions more secure end up privileging a masculine definition of security that only results in feminine insecurities. These essays discuss how women negotiate their differences with a state that, though democratic, denies space to differences based on ethnicity, religion, class or gender. Borders are interpreted as zones where the jurisdiction of one state ends and that of the other begins. What comes out is the startling revelation that women not only live on the borders, but in many ways, form them.