Women in ''New Nepal'' - Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when 'New Nepal' was rising on the horizon.

List of contents

Introduction. Part I From the Classed Peripheries 1. 'Satisfied with My Job': Exploring the World of Women Construction Workers. 2. 'Domestic Workers are Workers': Present State of Women in Paid Domestic Work. 3. 'Self-employed': Street Vendors in the Age of Neoliberalism. Part II From the Ethnic Peripheries 4. Hyolmo Women on the Move: Marriage, Migrant Work, and Relocation to Kathmandu. 5. Talking Feminism with an Indigenous Woman: Dolma's Life Story. Part III From the Gendered Peripheries 6. Women's Place in Nepal's Democratization. 7. From the Peripheries of Nepal's Developmental Order: Views of Janajati and Dalit Women. 8. Women's Body in Public Spaces: Exclusion in the Form of Sexual Harassment

About the author

Seika Sato is a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Teikyo University. She has worked on ethnographic studies in Nepal, centering around various issues in lives of minority women. She is the author of Conversing with the Hyolmo Women: An Anthropology of Life/Story in Nepal (Tokyo: Sangensha, 2015, in Japanese).

Summary

This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when 'New Nepal' was rising on the horizon.

Product details

• Authors: Seika Sato, Seika (Teikyo University Sato
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2023
• EAN: 9781032259369
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225936-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Nepal and Himalayan Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Nepal, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Gender studies: women and girls, gender;Nepal;ethnic;class