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Rural women's power in South Asia : understanding shakti /

"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. Building upon recent formulations of South Asian gender discourse, it explores the ways t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Obeng, J. Pashington (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Gender, development and social change.
Subjects:
Rural women > South Asia > Social conditions.
Rural women > Government policy > South Asia.
Women in rural development > South Asia.
Power (Social sciences) > South Asia.
Dominance (Psychology) > South Asia.
Caste > South Asia.
Social structure > South Asia.
South Asia > Rural conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Caste.
Dominance (Psychology)
Power (Social sciences)
Rural conditions.
Rural women > Government policy.
Rural women > Social conditions.
Social structure.
Women in rural development.
South Asia.
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