Negotiation and Social Space: A Gendered Analysis of Changing Kin and Security Networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
817036728X
Length
354p., Maps; 22cm.
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"The recent literature on family and kinship has exhibited a divergence in approaches. On the one hand, the discourse on human rights and gender depicts women as being trapped within oppressive systems. On the other, the traditional academic and policy approaches tend to treat the family as being beyond change and as an institution which enshrines principles of consensus and support. Deviating significantly from both these approaches to family and kinship, ...
