Doing Gender, Doing Geography: Emerging Research in India
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Editors:   Raju, Saraswati  Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala                 
ISBN: 978 0 415 59802 6
Format: Hardback
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List price(s): 65.00 GBP  95.00 USD 
Publication date: 31 August 2010

Table of contents

Preface. Introduction 1. Gendered and Claiming a Place in the Androcentric Discipline of Geography: Revisiting the Familiar Saraswati Raju 2. 'Doing Gender' in Geography: An Indian Exploring Contemporary Feminist Methodologies Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Part I. World of Work 3. Mobilities and Spaces: Gendered Dimension of Migration in Urban India Arpita Bannerjee 4. Creating New 'Places': Women and Livelihoods in the Globalising Town of Burdwan, West Bengal Pallabi Sil 5. Gender, Poverty and Microfinance: Women Self-Help Groups in Burdwan, West Bengal Gopa Samanta 6. Interrogating Temporal and Spatial Negotiations: Home as the Gendered Site for Working Women in Delhi Taneesha Devi Mohan Part II. Reproduction, Survival and Care 7. Expanding Masculine Spaces: Planned Births and Sex Composition of Children in India Mohammad Izhar Hassan 8. Neighbourhoods and Narratives: Contextualising Gender and Child Health in Urban Lucknow Manisha Singh Part III. Domestic and Public Spaces 9. Unequal They Stand: Decision-making and Gendered Spaces within Family Mohammad Sanjeer Alam 10. Are Public Places Gendered Spaces? A Case of Kolkata Tanusree Paul. References. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index

Biography

Saraswati Raju is Professor of Social Geography, Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is Fellow at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU).

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