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Routledge handbook of gender in South Asia / edited by Leela Fernandes.
LIBRA HQ1735.3 .R68 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminism--South Asia.
- Feminism.
- Women--Government policy--South Asia.
- Women.
- Women--South Asia--Social conditions.
- Women's rights.
- Economic conditions.
- Women--Government policy.
- South Asia.
- Social conditions.
- Women--South Asia--Economic conditions.
- Women's rights--South Asia.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
- Summary:
- Focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this overview of gender, women, and sexuality covers historical formations of gender and the significance of colonialism and nationalism; law, citizenship and the nation; representations of culture, place, identity; labor and the economy; and inequality, activism and the state.
- Contents:
- Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again? / Mrinalini Sinha
- Construction of Gender in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The Writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan
- Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations, Refugee Women and Partition Studies / Paulomi Chakraborty
- Gender and Citizenship in India / Anupama Roy
- Gender and Democratic Politics in Bangladesh / Elora Shehabuddin
- Law, Sex Work and Activism in India / Prabha Kotiswaran
- The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence / Vrinda Narain
- Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama
- The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context / Saadia Toor
- Gender, Media and Popular Culture in a Global India / Maitrayee Chaudhuri
- Death and Family: Queer Archives of the Space Between / Naisargi N. Dave
- Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered Constellations / Ann Grodzins Gold
- Gender and Property in Neoliberal Middle-class Kolkata: Of Untold Riches and Unruly Homes / Henrike Donner
- Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
- An Intersection of Marxism and Feminism among India's Informal Workers: A Second Marriage? / Rina Agarwala
- Gendered Opportunity and Constraint in India's IT Industry: The Problem of Too Much 'Headweight' / Smitha Radhakrishnan
- A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary India / Priti Ramamurthy
- NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective / Lamia Karim
- Gender and Education in South Asia / Sangeeta Kamat
- Sex Ratios and Sex Selection in India: History and the Present / Mary E. John
- Dalit Women Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the 'Quintessentially Marginal' / Manuela Ciotti
- Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship / Moon Charania
- Mapping Women's Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation / Rukmini Sen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415523530
- 0415523532
- OCLC:
- 855491720
- Publisher Number:
- 99957471348
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