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Author Raju, Saraswati

Title Doing Gender, Doing Geography : Emerging Research in India
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (335 pages)
Contents Pt. I. World of work -- pt. II. Reproduction, survival and care -- pt. III. Domestic and public spaces
Summary Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order. However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual
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Subject Women -- India -- Social conditions
Feminist geography -- India
Gender mainstreaming -- India
Feminist geography
Gender mainstreaming
Women -- Social conditions
India
Form Electronic book
Author Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala
ISBN 9781136197369
1136197362