01092nam a22002297a 4500 37571 37571 9781349960101 English 305.420954 OBE-R Obeng, Pashington author. Rural women's power in South Asia : Understanding shakti / Pashington Obeng UK : Palgrave macmillan, 2014. xiii, 186p. Include bibliography and index. This book investigates how women's power and caste cleavages often continue to transcend and crosscut the boundaries of caste/tribe, gender, age, class and religion in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh It examines the gendered divisions of labor in rural communities and how countervailing forces have restricted women's status and roles in South Asia. English. Rural women Social conditions. South Asia. Rural women Government policy South Asia. Women in rural development South Asia. Social structure South Asia. South Asia Rural conditions. ddc BK 0 0 0 0 NASSDOC NASSDOC 2023-03-16 Overseas 0.00 0 305.420954 OBE-R 53190 2023-05-04 00:00:00 0.00 2023-05-04 BK