1st Edition
Doing Gender, Doing Geography Emerging Research in India
334 Pages
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Routledge India
334 Pages
by
Routledge India
334 Pages
by
Routledge India
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Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order.... Read more
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).
