TY - BOOK AU - Raju,Saraswati TI - Gendered geographies: space and place in South Asia SN - 0198072570 AV - HQ1190 .G4755 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Feminist geography KW - South Asia KW - Feminist theory KW - Women KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; PART I:INTRODUCTION: 1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Gender, Space and Place (Saraswati Raju) ; PART II: NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL SPACES AND PLACES: ; 2. The Making of Gendered Geography in India (Sarawati Raju) ; 3. Women's Livelihoods in a Transnational Social Space: Labour Migration from Far West Nepal to Delhi, India (Susan Thieme, Ulrike Muller- Boker, Norman Backhaus) ; 4. Bangladeshi Migrant Women in Malaysia - Transgressing Space and Place (Anja Rudnick) ; 5. Identities in Conflict: Women's spaces in Eastern Sri Lanka (Una Hombrecher and Eva Gerharz) ; 6. Emerging Feminist Space Politicizes Violence against Women (Monica Erwer) ; PART III: GENDERED STRUGGLES IN LIVELIHOOD SPACES AND PLACES: ; 7. The geographers' burden: What does the work of kamins in Indian collieries tell us about the mining industry? (Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt) ; 8. Embodied Rural Weaver's Workplaces: Developing Gender Self-Employment Agenda for the Handloom Cooperatives (Jyotirmayee Acharya) ; 9. Spatial Agendas for Decision- Making in Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh: The Influence of Place, Class and Caste on Women's Role in Environmental Management (Sarah Jewitt and Kathleen Baker) ; 10. Contextualizing Credit Program, Poverty Alleviation and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study from Rural Sri Lanka (Seela Aladuwaka and Ann M. Oberhauser) ; PART IV: EVERYDAY SPACES AND PLACES - NEGOTIATIONS AND CONTESTATIONS: ; 11. The Farmer and Her Family: Negotiating Motherhood and Livelihood in the Karakoram, Pakistan (Sarah J. Halvorson) ; 12. Spaces of Power, Places of Hardship: Rethinking Spaces and Places through a Gendered Geography of Water (Farhana Sultana) N2 - Contributed articles ER -