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Gendered geographies : space and place in South Asia / edited by Saraswati Raju.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 316 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0198072570
  • 9780198072577
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1190 .G4755 2011
Contents:
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) ;
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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) ;

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