Rural Women's Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti by Obeng, P.

Rural Women's Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349457847)

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Rural Women's Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti by Obeng, P.

Rural Women's Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti

$54.99
Rural Women's Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti by Obeng, P.

Rural Women's Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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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 It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.

Author: P. Obeng
ISBN-10: 1349457841
ISBN-13: 9781349457847
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2014
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d
By P. Obeng
By P. Obeng
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Pashington Obeng is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, USA. In 2011-2012 he was Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor at Brandeis University and has also taught at Brown and Harvard Universities, USA. He is the author of Shaping Membership, Defining Nation: The Cultural Politics of African Indians in South Asia (2007).

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