Borders, histories, existences : gender and beyond /

This is an insightful historical work on borders and bordered existences, with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The author argues that the experiences of women living on borders and in borderlands are definitive of those of the vulnerable communities who bear the brunt...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Banerjee, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2010.
Temas:
Women > South Asia > Social conditions.
Borderlands > South Asia > Social conditions.
Femmes > Asie méridionale > Conditions sociales.
Régions frontalières > Asie méridionale > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Women > Social conditions
South Asia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aliens in the colonial world
  • Borders as unsettled markers : the Sino-Indian border
  • The line of control : Kashmir
  • Circles of insecurity : the border people
  • Negotiating differences : the Indian State and its women in the borderlands
  • Mobile diseases and the border
  • Border laws and conflicts in North-east India.

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