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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Alston, Margaret</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm type="text">editor</roleTerm>
    </role>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">New York</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Palgrave Macmillan</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2020</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">Eng</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">lis</languageTerm>
  </language>
  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">h.</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xi, 260p.</extent>
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  <abstract>A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Margaret Alston</note>
  <note>Include index.</note>
  <note>English.</note>
  <subject>
    <topic>Women's rights</topic>
    <geographic>South Asia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject>
    <topic>Equality</topic>
    <geographic>South Asia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="ddc">305.420954 WOM-</classification>
  <relatedItem type="series">
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Gender, development and social change</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9781349959921</identifier>
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