Rural women's power in South Asia : understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng Associate professor, Wellesley College, MA, United States.

By:

Obeng, J. Pashington

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.Description: xiii, 186 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781137320759 (hardback)

Subject(s): DDC classification:

305.420954 23 OBE

Other classification:

BUS092000 | POL000000 | SOC032000

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Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. History and Identity -- 3. Policies and Interventions -- 4. Governments, NGOs, Sanghas and Entrepreneurs (20+) -- 5. Senior Women's Shakti (60+) -- 6. Conclusion.

Scope and content: "This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Building upon recent formulations of South Asian gender discourse, it explores the ways that perceived notions of women and castified geographies are not only structured in complex and localized relationships of dominance, but are also constituted by practices of the state and central governments. By examining both the particularities of local women's efforts to improve themselves and the ways that power is mediated, the author addresses the multiplex ways individuals both adapt and contest the hegemony of the dominant structures"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	305.420954 OBE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		38074

1. Introduction -- 2. History and Identity -- 3. Policies and Interventions -- 4. Governments, NGOs, Sanghas and Entrepreneurs (20+) -- 5. Senior Women's Shakti (60+) -- 6. Conclusion.

"This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Building upon recent formulations of South Asian gender discourse, it explores the ways that perceived notions of women and castified geographies are not only structured in complex and localized relationships of dominance, but are also constituted by practices of the state and central governments. By examining both the particularities of local women's efforts to improve themselves and the ways that power is mediated, the author addresses the multiplex ways individuals both adapt and contest the hegemony of the dominant structures"--

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