Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti

Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti
ISBN-10
1137320761
ISBN-13
9781137320766
Category
Social Science
Pages
186
Language
English
Published
2014-07-22
Publisher
Springer
Author
P. Obeng

Description

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.

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