Rural Women’s Power in South Asia : 
Subtitle: Understanding Shakti
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 31, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781137320759
Description: "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. Building upon recent formulations of South Asian gender discourse, it explores the ways that perceived notions of women and castified geographies are not only structured in complex and localized relationships of dominance, but are also constituted by practices of the state and central governments. By examining both the particularities of local women's efforts to improve themselves and the ways that power is mediated, the author addresses the multiplex ways individuals both adapt and contest the hegemony of the dominant structures"--
Notes: Source title: Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:: Understanding Shakti (Gender, Development and Social Change)