Rural women's power in South Asia : Understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng
By: Obeng, Pashington [author.].
Publisher: UK : Palgrave macmillan, 2014Description: xiii, 186p.ISBN: 9781349960101.Subject(s): Rural women -- Social conditions. -- South Asia | Rural women -- Government policy -- South Asia | Women in rural development -- South Asia | Social structure -- South Asia | South Asia -- Rural conditionsDDC classification: 305.420954 Summary: 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 It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
NASSDOC Library | 305.420954 OBE-R (Browse shelf) | Available | 53190 |
Browsing NASSDOC Library Shelves Close shelf browser
|
|
No cover image available |
|
No cover image available |
|
|
||
| 305.420954 MEM- Memsahibs' writings: colonial narratives on Indian women | 305.420954 NAS-N No country for women | 305.420954 NAT-W Women empowerment in India: issues and challenges:abstracts | 305.420954 OBE-R Rural women's power in South Asia : | 305.420954 POS; Position and status of women in ancient India | 305.420954 RAN-I Invisible women, visible histories: gender, society and polity in North India | 305.420954 REP Re-presenting feminist methodologies: interdisciplinary explorations |
Include bibliography and index.
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 It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.
English.
There are no comments for this item.