Doing gender, doing geography : emerging research in India / Edited by Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
. – London : Routledge, 2011
xvi, 317 p. : ill., maps ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-305) and index.
Introduction Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Engendering the androcentric discipline of geography and claiming a place : revisiting the (un)familiar / Saraswati Raju 'Doing gender' in geography : exploring contemporary feminist methodologies / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Mobilities and spaces : gendered dimension of migration in urban India / Arpita Banerjee Creating new 'places' : women and livelihoods in the globalising town of Burdwan, West Bengal / Pallabi Sil Gender, poverty and microfinance : interrogating women's SHGs in West Bengal / Gopa Samanta Interrogating temporal and spatial negotiations : home as the gendered site for working women in Delhi / Taneesha Devi Mohan Expanding masculine spaces : planned births and sex composition of children in India / Mohammad Izhar Hassan Neighborhoods and narratives : contextualising gender and child health in Lucknow City, Utter Pradesh / Manisha Singh Unequal they stand : decision-making and gendered spaces within family / Mohammad Sanjeer Alam Public spaces and everyday lives : gendered encounters in the metro city of Kolkata / Tanusree Paul.
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1. Gender mainstreaming 1. Feminist geography 1. Women – Social conditions – India
I. Raju, Saraswati, Editor I. Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala, Editor