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Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: Understanding Shakti

Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: Understanding Shakti

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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.

Keywords

Social ScienceDeveloping & Emerging CountriesPolitical ScienceEthnic StudiesAsian StudiesGender StudiesAnthropologyHuman GeographyInternational RelationsHistory & TheoryCultural & Social

2014Book

Author(s)P. Obeng

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK

ISBN9781137320759

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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