01706cam a2200277 i 4500 34260 34260 140603s2014 enk b 000 0 eng 9781137320759 (hardback) Obeng, J. Pashington. Rural women's power in South Asia : understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng Associate professor, Wellesley College, MA, United States. New York: Palgrave Macmllan, 2014 xiii, 186 pages ; includes index "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 that perceived notions of women and castified geographies are not only structured in complex and localized relationships of dominance, but are also constituted by practices of the state and central governments. By examining both the particularities of local women's efforts to improve themselves and the ways that power is mediated, the author addresses the multiplex ways individuals both adapt and contest the hegemony of the dominant structures"-- Rural women Social conditions. Rural women Government policy Women in rural development Power (Social sciences) Dominance (Psychology) Caste Social structure 11137 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General. POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. BK HQ1240.5.S64 O24 2014 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN OOER 2020-03-03 GFT 0 HQ 1240.5 .S64O24 2014 0042724 2020-03-03 00:00:00 2 2020-03-03 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN OOER 2020-03-03 GFT 0 HQ 1240.5 .S64O24 2014 0042725 2020-03-03 00:00:00 2 2020-03-03 BK