1st Edition

Gendered Transformative Initiatives in South Asia

Edited By Reema Bhatia Copyright 2025
230 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

230 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

230 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This volume discusses gendered transformative initiatives in South Asian feminism, discussing gender norms, labour and market participation by women, along with family planning, reproductive rights and initiatives for the social and financial empowerment of women in South Asia. Gender is a part of our everyday lived reality. It has been one of the key structuring principles of social... Read more

Introduction 

Reema Bhatia

1          Exploring Women’s Agency under Male Breadwinner Norms in Keti Bandar           

Rashid Memon, Hadia Majid and Marta Bivand Erdal

2          Advancing Gender Equity for Women in Science in Higher Academia and Research

Pratibha Jolly

3          Gender Norms and Labour Market Contribution of Women in Bangladesh

Sayema Bidisha

4          Perils of war and peace: An analysis on asset-based economic outcomes of lone mothers of Eastern Sri Lanka    

Sasini T.K. Kulatunga

5          Unravelling the ‘Uteropolitic’: Problematizing the Global Family Planning Apparatus through a Post-Colonial Feminist Lens from Pakistan    

Mehrub Moiz Awan, Maryam Ali Khan, Firdous Gaewalla, Muneeb Ahmad

6          From Singular to Intersectional: The Subject of the Queer Movements in India

Yogesh S

7          Door to Door: A Study of the Single Woman’s Search for Housing in the City

Sumedha Priyadarshini and Parul Dubey

8          Pashto Tappa: Women’s Voice in Conflict Induced Migration       

Anoosh W. Khan

9          Martyr as Witness:  Palestinian Women’s Writing on the Nakba                                                       

Gopi Devdutt Tripathy

Index

Biography

Reema Bhatia is a researcher and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Miranda House, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.