Gendered geographies : space and place in south Asia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

National and transnational constructs of spaces and places. Reclaiming spaces and places: the making of gendered geography of India / Saraswati Raju ; Women's livelihoods in a transnational social space : labour migration from far west Nepal to Delhi, India / Susan Thieme, Ulrike Müller-Böker, and Norman Backhaus ; Bangladeshi migrant women in Malaysia : transgressing space and place / Anja Rudnick ; Identitites in conflict : women's spaces in north-eastern Sri Lanka / Una Hombrecher and Eva Gerharz ; Emerging feminist space politicizes violence against women / Monica Erwé Gendered and spatially embedded livelihood concerns. The geographers' burden : what does the work of Kamins in Indian collieries tell us about the mining industry? / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt ; Embodied rural weavers' workplaces : developing gendered self-employment agendas for the handloom cooperatives in Orissa, India / Jyotirmayee Acharya ; Spatial agendas for decision-making in Jharkand and Uttar Pradesh : the influence of place, class and caste on women's role in environmental management / Sarah Jewitt and Kathleen Baker ; Contextualizing credit programmers, poverty, alleviation, and women's empowerment : a case study from rural Sri Lanka / Seela Aladuwaka and Ann M. Oberhauser Everyday experiences : negotiations and contestations. Negotiating child health : spaces of motherhood and livelihood in the Karakoram, northern Pakistan / Sarah J. Halvorson Spaces of power, places of hardship : rethinking spaces and places through a gendered geography of water / Farhana Sultana.