Borders, histories, existences : gender and beyond / Paula Banerjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banerjee, Paula.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--South Asia--Social conditions.

Women.

Borderlands--South Asia--Social conditions.

Borderlands.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlii, 253 p.) : maps.

Place of Publication:

Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a historical work on borders and bordered existences with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The book is replete with the experiences of women geographically located on borders who, the author argues, define those borders as well as themselves.

Contents:

Cover; Content; List of Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Histories and Historians of Borders; Section I: Borders and their Pasts; 1 - Aliens in the Colonial World; 2 - Borders as Unsettled Markers: The Sino-Indian Border; 3 - The Line of Control: Kashmir; Section II: Life on the Border; 4 - Circles of Insecurity: The Border People; 5 - Negotiating Differences: The Indian State and its Women in the Borderlands; 6 - Mobile Diseases and the Border; Section III: Law and the Border; 7 - Border Laws and Conflicts in North-east India; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612503238

9789352804917

9352804910

9781282503236

1282503235

9788132104841

8132104846

OCLC:

593295592