TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernandes,Leela
TI  - Routledge handbook of gender in South Asia
T2  - Routledge handbooks
SN  - 9780415523530 (hardback)
AV  - HQ 1871 .R8696 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Feminism
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Women
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Women's rights
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Gendered Nationalism: From Women to Gender and Back Again?; Construction of Gender in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century in Muslim Bengal: The Writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain; Gender, Women and Partition: Literary Representations, Refugee Women and Partition Studies; Gender and Citizenship in India; Gender and Democratic Politics in Bangladesh; Law, Sex Work and Activism in India; The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women: Transformatory Jurisprudence; Female Militancy: Reflections from Sri Lanka; The Political Economy of Moral Regulation in Pakistan: Religion, Gender and Class in a Postcolonial Context; Gender, Media and Popular Culture in a Global India; Death and Family: Queer Archives of the Space Between; Women's Place-making in Santosh Nagar: Gendered Constellations; Gender and Property in Neoliberal Middle-class Kolkata: Of Untold Riches and Unruly Homes; Global Governance Initiatives and Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics; An Intersection of Marxism and Feminism among India's Informal Workers: A Second Marriage?; Gendered Opportunity and Constraint in India's IT Industry: The Problem of Too Much 'Headweight'; A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis of Rural Transformation in Contemporary India; NGOs, State and Neoliberal Development in South Asia: The Paradigmatic Case of Bangladesh in a Global Perspective; Gender and Education in South Asia; Sex Ratios and Sex Selection in India: History and the Present; Dalit Women Between Social and Analytical Alterity: Rethinking the 'Quintessentially Marginal'; Feminism, Sexuality and the Rhetoric of Westernization in Pakistan: Precarious Citizenship; Mapping Women's Activism in India: Resistances, Reforms and (Re)-Creation
N2  - Focusing on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this overview of gender, women, and sexuality covers historical formations of gender and the significance of colonialism and nationalism; law, citizenship and the nation; representations of culture, place, identity; labor and the economy; and inequality, activism and the state
ER  -