Rural women's power in South Asia : understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng (associate professor, Wellesley College, MA).

"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 percei...

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Main Author: Obeng, J. Pashington
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Physical Description:xiii, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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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