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008			140603s2014 enk b 000 0 eng
020			_a9781137320759 (hardback)
100	1		_aObeng, J. Pashington.
245	1	0	_aRural women's power in South Asia : _bunderstanding shakti / _cPashington Obeng Associate professor, Wellesley College, MA, United States.
260			_aNew York: _bPalgrave Macmllan, _c2014
300			_axiii, 186 pages ;
500			_aincludes index
520	2		_a"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"--
650		0	_aRural women _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aRural women _xGovernment policy
650		0	_aWomen in rural development
650		0	_aPower (Social sciences)
650		0	_aDominance (Psychology)
650		0	_aCaste
650		0	_aSocial structure _911137
650		7	_aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
942			_cBK
050	0	0	_aHQ1240.5.S64 _bO24 2014