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Cover image for book Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:

Rural Women’s Power in South Asia:

Understanding Shakti
By:P. Obeng
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137320759
eText ISBN:9781137320766
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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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 It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia.