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

• Pubblicazione: New Delhi : , : Abingdon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.20820954
• Soggetto topico: Women - India - Social conditions; Feminist geography - India; Gender mainstreaming - India
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: Lahiri-DuttKuntala <1956-> RajuSaraswati
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Doing gender, doing geography
• ISBN: 0-203-08532-9; 1-283-88635-9; 1-136-19736-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452537003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II