ISBN:
9780415598026
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (335 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Doing Gender, Doing Geography : Emerging Research in India
DDC:
304.20820954
Keywords:
Gender mainstreaming - India
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order. However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual sources an
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures and Maps; Preface; Introduction; 1 Engendering the Androcentric Discipline of Geography and Claiming a Place: Revisiting the (Un)familiar; 2 'Doing Gender' in Geography: Exploring Contemporary Feminist Methodologies; Part I World of Work; 3 Mobilities and Spaces: Gendered Dimensionof Migration in Urban India; 4 Creating New 'Places': Women and Livelihoods in the Globalising Town of Burdwan, West Bengal; 5 Gender, Poverty and Microfinance: Interrogating Women's SHGs in West Bengal
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Interrogating Temporal and Spatial Negotiations: Home as the Gendered Site for Working Women in DelhiPart II Reproduction, Survival and Care; 7 Expanding Masculine Spaces: Planned Births and Sex Composition of Children in India; 8 Neighbourhoods and Narratives: Contextualising Gender and Child Health in Lucknow City, Uttar Pradesh; Part III Domestic and Public Spaces; 9 Unequal They Stand: Decision-making and Gendered Spaces within Family; 10 Public Spaces and Everyday Lives: Gendered Encounters in the Metro City of Kolkata; Bibliography; Notes on Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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