Gender Place and Identity of South Asian Women

In the past century South Asia underwent fundamental cultural social and political changes as many countries progressed from colonial dominations through nationalist movements to independence. These transformations have been intricately bound up with the spatiality of social life in the region drawing further attention to the significance of social spaces within transformative politics and identity formations. Gender Place and Identity of South Asian Women studies contemporary literature of South Asian women with a focus on gender place and identity. It contributes to the debate on gender identity and equality spatial and social justice women empowerment marginalization and anti-discrimination measures. Covering topics such as partition memory narrative spatial mobility and diasporic women''s lives this book is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education researchers activists government officials business leaders academicians feminist organizations sociologists and researchers.