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Women in Indian borderlands /
Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks :
SAGE,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with borders, and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms. They show how most of the traditional efforts to make geopolitical regions more secure end up privileging a masculine definition of security that only results in feminine insecurities. These essays discuss ho. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-227) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9788132107804 8132107802 9781283235501 1283235501 |