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

By Pashington Obeng

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349457841
• ISBN13: 9781349457847
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"