TY - BOOK AU - Obeng, Pashington TI - Rural women's power in South Asia: Understanding shakti SN - 9781349960101 U1 - 305.420954 PY - 2014/// CY - UK PB - Palgrave macmillan KW - Rural women KW - Social conditions KW - South Asia KW - Rural women KW - Government policy KW - Women in rural development KW - Social structure KW - South Asia KW - Rural conditions N1 - Include bibliography and index N2 - 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 ER -