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020 _a9781138348752
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_a305.420954 D685
245 _aDoing gender, doing geography :
_bemerging research in India /
_ceditors, Saraswati Raju, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt.
260 _aNew Delhi ;
_aAbingdon :
_bRoutledge,
_c2018
300 _axvi, 317 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [268]-305) and index.
505 _a 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.
520 _aUntil the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order. However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual sources and in-depth case studies are being tried out and accepted in geography despite its masculine legacy. This pioneering study brings together Indian geographers' contributions to understanding gender, and through them, seeks to enrich the discipline of geography. It engages with the recent 'spatial turn' in the social sciences, which has reclaimed the explanatory power of space and place in social theory that had been nearly lost to deconstructive postmodernist scholarship. The volume draws entirely from the Indian scholarship, showcasing contextualised knowledge production, but hopes to initiate a a dialogue with scholars elsewhere working with feminist methodologies. -- Product Description.
650 _aWomen
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_xSocial conditions
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650 _aFeminist geography
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650 _aGender mainstreaming
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700 _aRaju, Saraswati.
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700 _aLahiri-Dutt, Kuntala,
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