| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-227) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. West Bengal -- pt. 2. Jammu and Kashmir -- pt. 3. Northeast -- pt. 4. Voices. |
| Summary |
Women in Indian Borderlands is an ethnographic compilation on the complex interrelationship between gender and political borders in South Asia. The book focuses on the border regions of West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir and Northeast India. The chapters in the book examine the stories of women whose lives are intertwined with borders, and who resist everyday violence in all its myriad forms. They show how most of the traditional efforts to make geopolitical regions more secure end up privileging a masculine definition of security that only results in feminine insecurities. These essays discuss ho. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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India. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women immigrants -- India -- Social conditions.
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Women immigrants. |
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Borderlands -- Social aspects -- India.
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Borderlands. |
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Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Banerjee, Paula.
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Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women in Indian borderlands. New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, ©2011 9788132106500 (DLC) 2011018816 (OCoLC)711052215 |
| ISBN |
9788132107804 (electronic book) |
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8132107802 (electronic book) |
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9781283235501 |
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1283235501 |
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9788132106500 |
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8132106504 |
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