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This contributed volume covers spatio-temporal dimensions of gender issues and challenges from a geographical perspective. The book presents case studies on gender issues from different countries, primarily but not exclusively in South Asia. This book is interdisciplinary in nature and targets a broad audience including academics, researchers, and activists working on gender issues.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Transnational Feminisms and Geographies of Gender.- Chapter 3: Gendered Geographies In South Asian Culture: Spaces, Sexualities, Solidarities.- Chapter 4: Rethinking Feminist Geographies And Regional Genderscapes In South Asia: The Question of Agency And Collectivity In A Subalternist Perspective.- Chapter 5: Gender And Geography: Understanding The Intersections And Overlaps With Special Reference To India.- Chapter 6: Gender and Cyberspace: Geographical Perspectives.- Chapter 7: Gender Norms Of Men And Women And Their Daily Behavioural Space In Rural Bangladesh.- Chapter 8: Pandemic And Work From Home: Space Negotiations of Working Women During The Covid-19 Lockdown.- Chapter 9: Women Under The Occupation: The Appearance of Red-Light Districts And Control Over Bodies And Urban Space.- Chapter 10: Public And Hidden Transcript On The Right To City (R2c) With Reference To Street Children Particularly Girls In The Night Shelters In Delhi: The Emerging Global City In India.- Chapter 11: Analysis of Gender Discrimination In Khulna City, Bangladesh.- Chapter 12: Aging And Health In India: Understanding The Gender Specific Perceptions And Challenges For Policy Interventions.- Chapter 13: Gendered Vulnerability To Natural Disasters: A Study of Environmental Refugees In The Indian Sundarban Delta.- Chapter 14: Tiger Widows Place-Based Adaptation: From Vulnerability To Resilience To Climate Change.- Chapter 15: Gender and Disaster Management: A Review of Contemporary Issues.- Chapter 16: Geographic Spatialities of Domestic Violence Cases In Assam: Analysing Societal Inequalities, Power Structure And Women Deliberations In An Abusive Marriage.- Chapter 17: Domestic Violence Against Women Garment Workers In Dhaka City, Bangladesh.- Chapter 18: Fear and Shame: Underpinnings of Women s Oppression.- Chapter 19: Understanding Gendered Poverty In Varanasi City Using Engel s Conditional Conceptualisation of Health Expenditures.- Chapter 20: Gender, Environment, And Livelihoods: Theoretical Developments And The Experience of Matrilineal Garo Community In Bangladesh.- Chapter 21: Exploitation Without Borders: Sri Lanka s Women Tea Plantation Workers Labour Migration To Middle East And Unsafe Pathways.- Chapter 22: Women And Education: Safeguarding Protected Areas In Kenya Through Women s Eyes.
About the author
Tarun Kumar Mondal
is working as a Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India. He is teaching Geography in this department since 2007. He has completed his Postgraduation and Ph.D. in Geography from The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. His research mainly focuses on gender issues in geography, agriculture and rural development, hazard and disaster, and climate change. He has published various significant research articles in national and international journals and book chapters with international publishers. He holds the life membership of the Geographical Society of India, National Association of Geographers, India, National Geographical Society of India, Regional Science Association, India and Foundation of Practising Geographers.
Paramita Roychowdhury
is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India. She has been teaching Geography at undergraduate and postgraduate levels since 2006. She has completed her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Geography from the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research interests are in gender issues in geography, regional development and planning, agriculture and rural development, and rural-urban transformations. She has published notable research articles in national and international journals and book chapters with international publishers. She is associated with various academic organizations such as National Associations of Geographers, India, The Deccan Geographical Society, Regional Science Association, India and Institute of Landscape, Ecology and Ekistics.
Summary
This contributed volume covers spatio-temporal dimensions of gender issues and challenges from a geographical perspective. The book presents case studies on gender issues from different countries, primarily but not exclusively in South Asia. This book is interdisciplinary in nature and targets a broad audience including academics, researchers, and activists working on gender issues.
