Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes

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1 Gender, space and agency in India: exploring regional genderscapes
2 Pierre Bourdieu’s symbolic violence: scripting gender among Assamese middle-class women in higher education
3 The power of social spaces in enabling girls’ education in India: perspectives from Indian origin students in the US
4 Interrogating gender, property rights and witch-hunting in Jharkhand, India
5 Gender and agency in decentralized political spaces in rural West Bengal
6 Mahila Panchayats of Delhi: scripting agency within low-income urban neighbourhoods
7 “It is better to die than to live like this”: widowhood, economic denial and violence in rural Punjab
8 “This is our area and that is theirs”: scripting the spatiality of migrant masculinity in Goa, India
9 Watercentric roles and women’s spaces: narratives from drought-prone villages of Gujarat
10 Numbers, bodies, love and babies: gender and territory in Ladakh
11 Reinterpreting resistance and agency: excavating feminist counterspaces within indigenous feminisms
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