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Rural women's power in South Asia = understanding Shakti /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Rural women's power in South Asia/ Pashington Obeng.
Reminder of title:	understanding Shakti /
Author:	Obeng, Pashington.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	208 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	aSakti (Hindu deity). -
Subject:	South Asia - Research -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137320761 (electronic bk.) :

Rural women's power in South Asia = understanding Shakti /
Obeng, Pashington.

Rural women's power in South Asiaunderstanding Shakti /[electronic resource] :Pashington Obeng. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 208 p. - Gender, development and social change.

Electronic book text.

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.

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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 It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.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.

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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).

ISBN: 1137320761 (electronic bk.) :£58.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

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aSakti (Hindu deity).
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South Asia
--Research

LC Class. No.: HQ1240.5.S64 / O24 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 305.420954

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