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Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia/ Edited by Margaret Alston.
Author:	Alston, Margaret,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	264 p. :1 maps. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Equality - South Asia. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137390573 (electronic bk.) :

Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia
Alston, Margaret,

Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia[electronic resource] /Edited by Margaret Alston. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 264 p. :1 maps. - Gender, development and social change.

Electronic book text.

Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Women, Political Struggles and Activism: Exploring the Lives of Women in South Asia-- Margaret Alston PART I: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH ASIA 2. Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women in India-- Sneha Krishnan 3. Gendered Violence: Forms, Incidence and Legislation in India-- Sadhna Arya and Shashi Khurana 4. Women Struggles Against Structural-based Violence in Pakistan-- Bushra Khaliq 5. Women in Bangladesh: Resistance Fighters and Invisible Heroes in the Economy and Society-- Rokeya Kabir and Omar Tarek Chowdhury 6. Intergenerational Prostitution in India: How a Cultural Practice Constitutes Sex Trafficking-- Alix Dolson PART II: ACTIVISM, RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT 7. Powerful Perpetrators: A Kathmandu Perspective-- Bidushi Dhungel 8. Living on the Edge: Mapping Homeless Women's Mobilisation in Kolkata, India-- Paromita Chakravarti 9. Money where the Mouth is: Women, Capital and a Land Rights Movement-- Kaushiki Rao and Anusha Hariharan 10. Linking Traditions of Resistance-- Aruna Burte PART III: POLITICS, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION 11. Substantive Representation and Violence against Women (VAW) in Pakistan-- Shaheen Ashraf, SHAH 12. The Intersection of the Public and Private for Pashtun Women in Politics-- Mary Hope Schwoebel 13. Creating Spaces for Change: Santali Women's Role in Local Level politics in Rural India-- Carol Wrenn 14. Women's Transformational leadership in Bangladesh: Potentials and Challenges-- Nazmunnessa Mahtab 15. Women and Politics in Patriarchy: Case of Bangladesh-- Mahmuda Islam Conclusion-- Margaret Alston.

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A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.The brutal rape of a young woman on a bus in Delhi in 2012 lit a spark of outrage across the world. Young women marched in protest, urging recognition of the rights of women and greater gender equality. This book emerges in response to the young woman's subsequent death and the protests which followed. The contributors have come together to present a detailed analysis of the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence and the long struggle for gender equality. They analyze violence in a number of countries and examine the courage and bravery of the many women who are fighting for justice.

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Margaret Alston is Professor of Social Work at Monash University, Australia. She has a long career researching gender issues in her own country and across South Asia. She has published widely in the field of gender and social issues.

ISBN: 1137390573 (electronic bk.) :£65.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1011163
Equality
--South Asia.

LC Class. No.: HQ1236.5.S64 / W66 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 305.420954

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