Routledge handbook of gender in South Asia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fernandes, Leela, editor.

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:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Leela Fernandes is Director and the Stanley D. Golub Chair of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She is the author of numerous books and essays. Her books on India include India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (2006), Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (1997), and her forthcoming book, Governing Water in India: Urbanization, Inequality and the Liberalizing State (2022).

Summary:

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.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781000471274

1000471276

9781003043102

1003043100

9781000471281

1000471284

OCLC:

1269055898

Access Restriction:

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