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1 online resource |
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Gender, development and social change |
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Gender, development and social change.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction: Women, Political Struggles and Activism: Exploring the Lives of Women in South Asia; Margaret Alston -- PART I: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH ASIA -- 2. Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women in India; Sneha Krishnan -- 3. Gendered Violence: Forms, Incidence and Legislation in India; Sadhna Arya and Shashi Khurana -- 4. Women Struggles Against Structural-based Violence in Pakistan; Bushra Khaliq -- 5. Women in Bangladesh: Resistance Fighters and Invisible Heroes in the Economy and Society; Rokeya Kabir and Omar Tarek Chowdhury -- 6. Intergenerational Prostitution in India: How a Cultural Practice Constitutes Sex Trafficking; Alix Dolson -- PART II: ACTIVISM, RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT -- 7. Powerful Perpetrators: A Kathmandu Perspective; Bidushi Dhungel -- 8. Living on the Edge: Mapping Homeless Women's Mobilisation in Kolkata, India; Paromita Chakravarti -- 9. Money where the Mouth is: Women, Capital and a Land Rights Movement; Kaushiki Rao and Anusha Hariharan -- 10. Linking Traditions of Resistance; Aruna Burte -- PART III: POLITICS, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION -- 11. Substantive Representation and Violence against Women (VAW) in Pakistan; Shaheen Ashraf, SHAH -- 12. The Intersection of the Public and Private for Pashtun Women in Politics; Mary Hope Schwoebel -- 13. Creating Spaces for Change: Santali Women's Role in Local Level politics in Rural India; Carol Wrenn -- 14. Women's Transformational leadership in Bangladesh: Potentials and Challenges; Nazmunnessa Mahtab -- 15. Women and Politics in Patriarchy: Case of Bangladesh; Mahmuda Islam -- Conclusion; Margaret Alston |
| Summary |
The brutal rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012 lit a spark of outrage across the world. Young women marched in protest, urging recognition of the rights of women and greater gender equality. This book emerges in response to the young woman's subsequent death and the protests which followed. The contributors have come together to present a detailed analysis of the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence and the long struggle for gender equality. They analyze violence in a number of countries and examine the courage and bravery of the many women who are fighting for justice |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Women's rights -- South Asia
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Equality -- South Asia
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Gender studies: women -- Indian sub-continent.
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Political activism -- Indian sub-continent.
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Social discrimination & inequality -- Indian sub-continent.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Equality
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Women's rights
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Gender studies: women & girls -- Indian sub-continent.
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Political activism -- Indian sub-continent.
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Social discrimination & equal treatment -- Indian sub-continent.
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Society.
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South Asia
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Zuid-Azië
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Alston, Margaret, editor
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| ISBN |
9781137390578 |
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1137390573 |
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9781137390561 |
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1137390565 |
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9781322107417 |
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1322107416 |
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