Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia

Edited by Margaret Alston

in Gender, Development and Social Change from Palgrave Macmillan, currently edited by Wendy Harcourt

Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-39057-8
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Women, Political Struggles and Activism — Exploring the Lives of Women in South Asia Margaret Alston

Margaret Alston

Ch 2 Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women in India

Sneha Krishnan

Ch 3 Gendered Violence: Forms, Incidence and Legislation in India

Sadhna Arya and Shashi Khurana

Ch 4 To Be a Woman in Pakistan: Stories of Struggle and Survival

Bushra Khaliq

Ch 5 Women in Bangladesh: Invisible Heroes in the Economy and Society

Rokeya Kabir and Omar Tarek Chowdhury

Ch 6 Intergenerational Prostitution in India: How a Cultural Practice Constitutes Sex Trafficking

Alix Dolson

Ch 7 Powerful Predators: A Kathmandu Perspective

Bidushi Dhungel

Ch 8 Living on the Edge: Mapping Homeless Women’s Mobilization in Kolkata, India

Paromita Chakravarti

Ch 9 Money Where the Mouth Is: Women, Capital and a Land Rights Movement

Kaushiki Rao and Anusha Hariharan

Ch 10 Linking Traditions of Resistance

Aruna Burte

Ch 11 Substantive Representation and Violence Against Women (VAW) in Pakistan

Shaheen Ashraf Shah

Ch 12 The Intersection of the Public and the Private for Pashtun Women in Politics

Mary Hope Schwoebel

Ch 13 Creating Spaces for Change: Santali Women’s Role in Local Level Politics in Rural India

Carol Wrenn

Ch 14 Women’s Transformational Leadership in Bangladesh: Potentials and Challenges

Nazmunnessa Mahtab

Ch 15 Women, Politics and Patriarchy: A Case of Bangladesh

Mahmuda Islam

Ch 16 Conclusion

Margaret Alston

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:gdevsc:978-1-137-39057-8

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9781137390578

DOI: 10.1057/9781137390578

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Gender, Development and Social Change from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().