Rural Women's Power In South Asia:: Understanding Shakti (Gender, Development And Social Change)

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.

• • Author: P. Obeng
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Jul 31, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 199 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137320753
• • ISBN-13: 9781137320759