TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obeng,J.Pashington
TI  - Rural women's power in South Asia: understanding shakti 
SN  - 9781137320759 (hardback)
AV  - HQ1240.5.S64 O24 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmllan
KW  - Rural women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Women in rural development
KW  - Power (Social sciences)
KW  - Dominance (Psychology)
KW  - Caste
KW  - Social structure
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
N1  - includes index
N2  - "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"--
ER  -