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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779600403321

Titolo

Doing gender, doing geography : emerging research in India / / editors, Saraswati Raju, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi : , : Abingdon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-203-08532-9

1-283-88635-9

1-136-19736-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Lahiri-DuttKuntala <1956->

RajuSaraswati

Disciplina

304.20820954

Soggetti

Women - India - Social conditions

Feminist geography - India

Gender mainstreaming - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. World of work -- pt. II. Reproduction, survival and care -- pt. III. Domestic and public spaces.

Sommario/riassunto

Until 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