Gendered Marginalities - Exploring Culture and Global Disparities

This book offers a comprehensive view of global gender dynamics. It explores the deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes that shape gender discourse. It brings together experiences and narratives from different domains and countries to comprehend broader social, economic, and political forces that contribute to the perseverance of dated stereotypes and consequent marginalization. It explores how gendered gaze runs through  literature, arts, corporates, governments, organisational management, gender pay gap, health care and health management, environment  and climate change. It brings together diverse perspectives and experiences to map the global challenges and explore interventions like gender budgeting and policy changes. Contributors to the volume are eminent academics, administrators and activists from South Africa, Australia and India with decades of experience and contributions to gender issues. It is an excellent resource for policy developers, educationists, activists, professionals, and practitioners of gender studies, public policy and governance.
 

List of contents

Chapter-I :Gender Budgeting in the Government of India: Development and Challenges.-Chapter-II :Exclusion of Women in Business and Management: need for a paradigm shift.- Chapter-III :Gender, Land and Power of the Collective in Punjab: Towards a Paradigm Shift .-GENDER AND HEALTH Chapter-IV :Gendered hierarchies and exclusion in healthcare work in India: intersections of class, caste, and religion.-Chapter-V :As one ages, what changes? a gendered understanding of social exclusion among the elderly in Guwahati city, Assam.-Chapter-VI :Silence of the Silo: Gendered Exclusion in Mental Health Discourse and practise.-GENDER AND ECOLOGY.-Chapter-VII:The Perception and Conceptualization of Floods Among Female Farmers in Nhlazuka and Swayimane.-Chapter-VIII:A rousing half-century: Women Cricket in India 1970s-2020s.-Chapter-IX:Vulnerability of the Displaced: Bimal Roy's Subaltern Heroes.-Chapter-X:Incarcerated Women: The Invisibles among the Marginalize.-Chapter-XI:Metamorphosis of Identity: A journey of Transgender's Transformation .-Chapter-XII:Gender Exclusion in the Workplace: A Comparative Study.-Chapter-XIII :Voices and Narratives: Women and their access to Mosques in India.-Chapter-XiV :Gendered Exclusion: A Continuing Reality .-Chapter-XV:Gender Experiences and Responses to Climate Change in India.-Chapter-XVI:The connection of sex gender , health and sexuality experiences of working in the health sector.- Chapter-XVII:Living on the Margins: Understanding and Addressing Gender Inequalities in Development through Ethnography and Collaboration.-Chapter-XVIII:Exploring the experiences of women working in the male-dominated video game industry.-Chapter- XIX :Women in the Arts: Present But Not Equal.-CHAPTER-XX:REVISITING THE SITUATION OF WOMEN IN MATRILINEAL SYSTEM: THE CASE OF  THE KHASI OF MEGHALAYA.-CHAPTER-XXI :GENDER SENSITIVITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH: IS WOMEN'S HEALTH ALONE RELEVANT?.-CHAPTER-XXII: POLITICAL REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN INDIA .- CHAPTER-XXIII :From everywhere to nowhere: understanding Social exclusion and inclusion of women through anthropological lens.

About the author

Shalina Mehta is a renowned Social and Cultural anthropologist from India and author of nine books and more than 80 scholarly papers. She is a recipient of the prestigious R.P. Chanda centenary medal for the year 2021 for significant contributions to Anthropology, awarded by the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and Distinguished Alumnus Award of Panjab University Alumni Association, Chandigarh. She served as professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Panjab University, Chandigarh for 39 years and was chair of the department from 1993-1996. She was Research Associate, Environmental Institute, Clear Lake Houston; Fellow at IIAS, Amsterdam; Senior Fellow-SSRC, New York; Expert guest professor in Gender studies at University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa. 

Dr Manjit Monga is an academic at UniSA Business, University of South Australia. Her research interests are in management ethics, cultural diversity management, inclusive management and social enterprises. She has published in high ranking journals including Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of HRM, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Event Management Journal and is recipient of research excellence awards.

Dr Harinder M Sandhu is Associate Professor and Head of Department of Psychology at Mata Sundri College, University of Delhi. Her teaching and research has focused on Organisational Behavior, Research Methods, and Culture and Psychology. She has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County, and Visiting Faculty at University of Fraser Valley, British Columbia.

Summary

This book offers a comprehensive view of global gender dynamics. It explores the deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes that shape gender discourse. It brings together experiences and narratives from different domains and countries to comprehend broader social, economic, and political forces that contribute to the perseverance of dated stereotypes and consequent marginalization. It explores how gendered gaze runs through  literature, arts, corporates, governments, organisational management, gender pay gap, health care and health management, environment  and climate change. It brings together diverse perspectives and experiences to map the global challenges and explore interventions like gender budgeting and policy changes. Contributors to the volume are eminent academics, administrators and activists from South Africa, Australia and India with decades of experience and contributions to gender issues. It is an excellent resource for policy developers, educationists, activists, professionals, and practitioners of gender studies, public policy and governance.
 

Product details

• Assisted by: Harinder M Sandhu (Editor), Shalina Mehta (Editor), Manjit Monga (Editor), Harinder M Sandhu (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.01.2026
• EAN: 9789819515561
• ISBN: 978-981-9515-56-1
• No. of pages: 350
• Illustrations: Approx. 350 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Gender Studies, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Gender pay gap, Social Structure, Feminism and feminist theory, Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten, spiritualism and disaster management, Gender alienation in mental health, Indigenous women, Gender Budgeting, Gendered marginality