Gender, Development and Social Change: Understanding Shakti

Obeng, P.

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 It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2014-07-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137320759

DOI: 10.1057/9781137320766

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 186