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Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series

Editors: Alston, Margaret

DOI: 10.1057/9781137390578

ISBN: 978-1-349-48267-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 3, 2015

1 - 10 of 16 Chapters

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Introduction: Women, Political Struggles and Activism — Exploring the Lives of Women in South Asia Margaret Alston

Alston, Margaret

Pages: 1 –16

[On 16th of December 2012, in the late evening of a balmy Delhi night, a young physiotherapy student boarded a bus with her male companion after an evening out at the movies. She had her whole life and a long professional career ahead of her — a career made possible by the efforts of her family,...
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Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women in India

Krishnan, Sneha

Pages: 19 –32

[On the evening of 16 December 2012, a young woman and her male friend got on a bus to go home, after having watched a film in South Delhi. Over the course of the next hour, they were harassed by four men, who eventually knocked the man unconscious before brutally raping the young woman, causing...
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Gendered Violence: Forms, Incidence and Legislation in India

Arya, Sadhna; Khurana, Shashi

Pages: 33 –57

[The wide range of oppressions women suffer in most of the South Asian and Middle East countries include child marriages, codes of honour, the veil, polygamy, lack of property rights, female foeticide, honour crimes and denial of basic rights. These are age-old and continuing practices that are...
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To Be a Woman in Pakistan: Stories of Struggle and Survival

Khaliq, Bushra

Pages: 58 –71

[Violence against women is a worldwide problem with multiple socio-cultural and structural reasons, all of which perpetuate different forms of violence. However, Pakistani society can viewed as a country where the worst forms of anti-women violence are grounded in deep-seated beliefs based on...
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Women in Bangladesh: Invisible Heroes in the Economy and Society

Kabir, Rokeya; Chowdhury, Omar Tarek

Pages: 72 –82

[The War of Liberation (WoL) in 1971 was a monumental landmark in the lives and history of people who live in the present geographical boundary known as Bangladesh. To some extent, perhaps, the impact of WoL also touches similar numbers of Bengalis living on other side of the border in...
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Intergenerational Prostitution in India: How a Cultural Practice Constitutes Sex Trafficking

Dolson, Alix

Pages: 83 –95

[Challenging the perceptions around human trafficking is critical to understanding the full complexity of this increasing form of persecution. Even those well-informed on the topic may have a very vague idea of what constitutes sex trafficking. Countries may have different legislation, and even...
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Powerful Predators: A Kathmandu Perspective

Dhungel, Bidushi

Pages: 99 –116

[When, on 27 December 2012, a group of young people, including myself, gathered outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar, Kathmandu, to sign and submit letters to the then-Prime Minister of Nepal regarding a case of robbery and rape of a young woman, I can say with certainty that none...
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Living on the Edge: Mapping Homeless Women’s Mobilization in Kolkata, India

Chakravarti, Paromita

Pages: 117 –137

[New social movements, led by civil society groups, such as Occupy Wall Street, the Arab spring or the youth unrest in Bangladesh, have been gaining ground in different parts of the world. Meanwhile successful anti-corruption and anti-rape agitations and environmental movements led by local...
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Money Where the Mouth Is: Women, Capital and a Land Rights Movement

Rao, Kaushiki; Hariharan, Anusha

Pages: 138 –154

[‘Yahan sab kuch khichdi jaise banta hai, politics, activist kaam, zindagi, sangharsh’1 (here, everything works like a khichdi, a one-pot dish made of rice, dal/lentils, vegetables, seasoning. This ‘khichdi’ consists of politics, activist work, life, struggle)]
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Linking Traditions of Resistance

Burte, Aruna

Pages: 155 –171

[Women everywhere — individually and collectively — have spoken out against subordination, inequality, discrimination, violence, wars and injustice breaking the culture of silence. Every culture has its own distinct traditions of resistance. In this chapter, I begin with a quick recap of a ‘her...

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