| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 253 pages) : maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Aliens in the colonial world -- Borders as unsettled markers : the Sino-Indian border -- The line of control : Kashmir -- Circles of insecurity : the border people -- Negotiating differences : the Indian State and its women in the borderlands -- Mobile diseases and the border -- Border laws and conflicts in North-east India. |
| Summary |
This is an insightful historical work on borders and bordered existences, with special emphasis on the gender dimensions of these existences. The author argues that the experiences of women living on borders and in borderlands are definitive of those of the vulnerable communities who bear the brunt of the complex border and security issues. The conditions of migrant women, women peace campaigners, and victims of human trafficking and mobile diseases are presented as markers of bordered existences. Their history is one of negotiations with structures of control, leading to insecurity, subversio. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- South Asia -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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South Asia. |
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Social conditions. |
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Borderlands -- South Asia -- Social conditions.
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Borderlands. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Banerjee, Paula. Borders, histories, existences. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2010 9788132102267 (DLC) 2009035223 (OCoLC)436866890 |
| ISBN |
9788132104841 (electronic book) |
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8132104846 (electronic book) |
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9788132102267 (hardcover) |
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8132102266 (hardcover) |
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