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Landscape and Gender Traversing the Contested and Mediated ‘Spaces’ in India

Landscape and Gender Traversing the Contested and Mediated ‘Spaces’ in India

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Author:Edited by Sharmistha Chatterjee and Moumita Dey
ISBN 13:9789358527780
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2024
Pages:394pp.,
Published On:1st July 2024
Subject:Anthropology and Sociology/Women Studies

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CONTENTS: List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction by Sharmistha Chatterjee and Moumita Dey, PART I: Historical Landscapes and Gendered Ideologies, The Lost Space: Gender and Landscape in Premodern Bengal by Kaushik Gangopadhyay, The Realm of the Goddess: Re(visiting) the Sacredscapes of a Vaishnavite Temple Town by Sharmistha Chatterjee, Exploring the Culinary Landscape and Gender Roles inside the ‘Rasodums’: A Study of Dholavira Village, Gujarat by Ahana Ghosh and Sharada Channarayapatna, Power without Authority: Women in Khasi Indigenous Political Institutions from Precolonial to Postcolonial Times by Srijani Bhattacharjee, PART II: Contemporary Landscapes: Identifying Gender Roles and Agencies, Women’s Leisure and Everyday Life in Rural Landscapes: A Study of a Coastal Village in Odisha by Puja Sardar, Living at the Margins: The Female Prawn Catchers of the Sunderbans by Chandrani Dutta and Taneesha D. Mohan, Implication of Mothers’ Education on the Empowerment of Adolescent Girl Students in a Rural Setting, Bankura District, West Bengal by Ayanika Sarkar and Biswaranjan Mistri, Understanding Patterns of Violence in ‘Domestic Spaces’: A Study from the Urban Fringes of South 24 Parganas, West Bengal by Bidisha Barua, Gendered Landscapes and Elderly Women in India: A Sociocultural Study of Alzheimer’s as a Women’s Disease by Tithee Datta, Gender Disparities in Commuting Behaviour during Covid-19: Insights from Megacities of India by Aisharya Bhattacharjee and Subhadeep Mondal, PART III: Towards ‘New’ Genderscapes, Gendering the Transportscape: Understanding ‘Public Art’ and Community Engagements in Metro Stations by Subhadeep Mondal, Aisharya Bhattacharjee, and Monidip Mondal, Queer and the Contemporary Urban Landscape: Reflections on Challenges and Prospects by Moumita Dey, Bibliography, Notes on Editors and Contributors, Index.