Women in Indian borderlands /:

Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose li...

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Weitere Verfasser: Banerjee, Paula, Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, ©2011.
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Zusammenfassung:Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with borders, and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms. They show how most of the traditional efforts to make geopolitical regions more secure end up privileging a masculine definition of security that only results in feminine insecurities. These essays discuss ho.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-227) and index.
ISBN:9788132107804
8132107802
9781283235501
1283235501

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