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This volume examines the role of women workers who are joining the workforce in urban India. Employment opportunities have opened up and are constantly expanding for women, but this book interrogates whether their working status is breaking gender stereotypes or reaffirming them. It argues that whether women are working in offices or from home, contributing to the IT sector or labouring as petty producers, they are unable to break out of the gendered codes that ...
Space’ and ‘place’ mediate gendered norms and practices through a complex interplay of social structures and institutions. They, in turn, impact women's life experiences significantly in terms of how they are played out in different contexts.
Based on detailed studies across South and Southeast Asia, the essays in Gendered Geographies foreground how gendered roles and practices intersect with the concepts of space and place. Drawing upon cases ...
This compilation of almost 100 maps is put together using data from the 1991 Census of India. The Atlas maps a regional geography of women and men, using indicators as diverse as literacy, education, voting patterns, cultural groupings, fertility rates, workforce participation etc. The aim is to provide information based on Census data which can help demonstrate the diversity of women's lives in India, and to provide it in such a way that readers/users can ...
This book brings together original contributions by geographers from India, Western Europe and the United States. It provides important insights into the way contemporary geographers engage with broader intellectual traditions, departing from the earlier narrow economic focus. The volume highlights how geographers `see' and write on topics such as the state, nation, community, environment and division of labour, while keeping in mind issues of place-making, ...