Rural Women''s Power in South Asia: - Understanding Shakti

"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"--

List of 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

About the author

Pashington Obeng is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, USA. In 2011-2012 he was Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor at Brandeis University and has also taught at Brown and Harvard Universities, USA. He is the author of Shaping Membership, Defining Nation: The Cultural Politics of African Indians in South Asia (2007).

Report

"This book is an important contribution for the insight it provides into the veritable manner ... . This book would, however, also be a useful resource for those involved in development work, as the case studies effectively outline the extent and nature of impact of interventions that aim to increase the visibility of women in public spaces." (Kalindi Kokal, South Asia Research, Vol. 36 (2), July, 2016)

Product details

• Authors: P Obeng, P. Obeng, Pashington Obeng
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781137320759
• ISBN: 978-1-137-32075-9
• No. of pages: 199
• Series: Gender, Development and Social Change; Gender, Development and Social; Gender, Development and Social Change; Gender, Development and Social
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Anthropologie, Asien, Sex, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Gender Studies, Culture, Cultural Studies, Humangeographie, Political Science, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Asia, Anthropology, auseinandersetzen, Gender studies, gender groups, Political science and theory, Human Geography, Development Studies, Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie