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Rural women's power in South Asia : understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng, Associate Professor, Wellesley College, MA, United States.

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Rural women's power in South Asia : understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng, Associate Professor, Wellesley College, MA, United States.
Author
Obeng, J. Pashington
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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xiii, 186 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
"This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Building upon recent formulations of South Asian gender discourse, it explores the ways that perceived notions of women and castified geographies are not only structured in complex and localized relationships of dominance, but are also constituted by practices of the state and central governments. By examining both the particularities of local women's efforts to improve themselves and the ways that power is mediated, the author addresses the multiplex ways individuals both adapt and contest the hegemony of the dominant structures"--
Series Statement
Gender, development and social change
Uniform Title
Gender, development and social change.
Subject
  • Rural women > South Asia > Social conditions
  • Rural women > Government policy > South Asia
  • Women in rural development > South Asia
  • Power (Social sciences) > South Asia
  • Dominance (Psychology) > South Asia
  • Caste > South Asia
  • Social structure > South Asia
  • BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
  • Caste
  • Dominance (Psychology)
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Rural conditions
  • Rural women > Government policy
  • Rural women > Social conditions
  • Social structure
  • Women in rural development
  • South Asia > Rural conditions
  • South Asia
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. History and Identity -- 3. Policies and Interventions -- 4. Governments, NGOs, Sanghas and Entrepreneurs (20+) -- 5. Senior Women's Shakti (60+) -- 6. Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781137320759 (hardback)
  • 1137320753 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2014019767
OCLC
881406954
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library