Negotiation and social space : a gendered analysis of changing kin and security networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa / editors, Carla Risseeuw, Kamala Ganesh.
Material type: TextPublication details: Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 1998. Description: 353 p. ; 22 x 15 cmISBN: 0761992707 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Kinship -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | Kinship -- South Asia | Sex role -- Africa, Sub-Saharan | Sex role -- South Asia | Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions | Women -- South Asia -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 306.85/0967 LOC classification: GN645 | .N38 1998Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents onlyItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Library General Stacks | 306.85/0967 NEG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | shopnil | 92403 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Kamala Ganesh and Carla Risseeuw -- Gendered Change in Marriage and Family: A Policy Concern -- Part One: Overviews -- Changing Kinship, Family and Gender Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa - Els A Baerends -- Trends in Kinship and Gender Relations in South Asia - Leela Dube -- Gender and Kinship Studies - Kamala Ganesh -- Indian Material and Context -- Part Two: Law: Reform And Rigidity -- Civil Law vs the Mand[ac]e Conception of Gendered Personhood - Saskia M A A Brand -- The Case of Bamako, Mali -- Part Three: Education: Contingent Access To New Worlds -- Family Strategies, Gender Ideology and Education - Karuna Charana -- The Impact of Partition on Punjabi Women of New Delhi -- Production and Reproduction of Girlhood in High Schools - Kathinka Kerkhoff -- The State, Family and Schooling in Colonial Calcutta -- Part Four: Women Traders: Free To Negotiate Or Forced To Adjust? -- Female Entrepreneurship in a Changing Environment - Philip J Havik -- Gender, Kinship and Trade in the Guinea Bissau Region -- Structural Adjustment and the Cameroonian Women's Life Line - Joyce B Endeley -- 1986-1995 -- Part Five: Labour And The Job Market: Negotiating Public Space -- Disjunctions and Continuities - Santi Rozario -- Dowry and the Position of Single Women in Bangladesh -- Absent Women and Their Extended Families - Michele Ruth Gamburd -- Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids -- Part Six: Negotiating Between Kith And Kin -- One from the Heart - Karen Willemse with Nawal H Osman and Catrien Bijleveld -- Between Family and Friends in Al-Halla, West Sudan -- Islamisation and Changes in Social Arrangements among the Mafa of North Cameroon - Jos[ac]e C M van Santen.
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