Doing gender, doing geography : emerging research in India

Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox in methodology, has been unable to destabilise the established disciplinary order. However, with younger scholars becoming increasingly interested in studying gender in geography, novel and innovative methods that include combinations of quantitative and qualitative analyses, visual.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-305) and index.

Introduction / Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. 1. Engendering the androcentric discipline of geography and claiming a place revisiting the (un)familiar / Saraswati Raju . 2. 'Doing gender' in geography exploring contemporary feminist methodologies / Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt. 3. Mobilities and spaces gendered dimension of migration in urban India / Arpita Banerjee . 4. Creating new 'places' women and livelihoods in the globalising town of Burdwan, West Bengal / Pallabi Sil. 5. Gender, poverty and microfinance interrogating women's SHGs in West Bengal / Gopa Samanta.
6. Interrogating temporal and spatial negotiations home as the gendered site for working women in Delhi / Taneesha Devi Mohan .
7. Expanding masculine spaces planned births and sex composition of children in India / Mohammad Izhar Hassan.
8. Neighborhoods and narratives contextualising gender and child health in Lucknow City, Utter Pradesh / Manisha Singh . 9. Unequal they stand decision-making and gendered spaces within family / Mohammad Sanjeer Alam. 10. Public spaces and everyday lives gendered encounters in the metro city of Kolkata / Tanusree Paul.