Author: Shewli Kumar
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947498371
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book is an effort to describe and analyze the reasons why women seek maintenance from their estranged husbands under 125CrPC. Despite the changing development paradigm in India, which is redefining gender roles making women more visible in the economic arena as well as in certain positions of power, a large number of women continue to depend on men for sustenance and survival. The cultural construct of women being dependent needing protection and as symbols of honor of their families and community continue to haunt them throughout their life. While violence against women is one part of the increasing patriarchy in society, on the other hand the dependency of women continues to be another reality reinforced by socio-cultural norms and traditions. In India, within its diverse population, women’s experiences of childhood, adolescence and marriage follow complex patterns. This book explores the 125CrPC, a common law for maintenance, which is one legal measure that women use to find a way out of destitution and get financial relief when a marriage ends. It makes an effort to locate the real life experiences of women in Delhi, who are seeking maintenance, the diversities in these experiences and explains the varied reasons as to why they need to do so. It also looks into why and how they reached the dependent status and what their experiences are while litigating for maintenance in the courts. It unravels the trials that they go through to prove their wifehood as chaste, obedient and pure so they may be granted maintenance and this is significantly highlighted in the book.
The Gendered Terrain of Maintenance for Women
Author: Shewli Kumar
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947498371
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book is an effort to describe and analyze the reasons why women seek maintenance from their estranged husbands under 125CrPC. Despite the changing development paradigm in India, which is redefining gender roles making women more visible in the economic arena as well as in certain positions of power, a large number of women continue to depend on men for sustenance and survival. The cultural construct of women being dependent needing protection and as symbols of honor of their families and community continue to haunt them throughout their life. While violence against women is one part of the increasing patriarchy in society, on the other hand the dependency of women continues to be another reality reinforced by socio-cultural norms and traditions. In India, within its diverse population, women’s experiences of childhood, adolescence and marriage follow complex patterns. This book explores the 125CrPC, a common law for maintenance, which is one legal measure that women use to find a way out of destitution and get financial relief when a marriage ends. It makes an effort to locate the real life experiences of women in Delhi, who are seeking maintenance, the diversities in these experiences and explains the varied reasons as to why they need to do so. It also looks into why and how they reached the dependent status and what their experiences are while litigating for maintenance in the courts. It unravels the trials that they go through to prove their wifehood as chaste, obedient and pure so they may be granted maintenance and this is significantly highlighted in the book.
Publisher: Notion Press
ISBN: 1947498371
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book is an effort to describe and analyze the reasons why women seek maintenance from their estranged husbands under 125CrPC. Despite the changing development paradigm in India, which is redefining gender roles making women more visible in the economic arena as well as in certain positions of power, a large number of women continue to depend on men for sustenance and survival. The cultural construct of women being dependent needing protection and as symbols of honor of their families and community continue to haunt them throughout their life. While violence against women is one part of the increasing patriarchy in society, on the other hand the dependency of women continues to be another reality reinforced by socio-cultural norms and traditions. In India, within its diverse population, women’s experiences of childhood, adolescence and marriage follow complex patterns. This book explores the 125CrPC, a common law for maintenance, which is one legal measure that women use to find a way out of destitution and get financial relief when a marriage ends. It makes an effort to locate the real life experiences of women in Delhi, who are seeking maintenance, the diversities in these experiences and explains the varied reasons as to why they need to do so. It also looks into why and how they reached the dependent status and what their experiences are while litigating for maintenance in the courts. It unravels the trials that they go through to prove their wifehood as chaste, obedient and pure so they may be granted maintenance and this is significantly highlighted in the book.
The Gendered Terrain of Disaster
Author: Elaine Pitt Enarson
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Gender is revealed as a central organizing principle in social life when the unexpected transforms daily routines, environments, and social institutions. Using specific disaster experiences from around the world, this book argues for a gendered perspective in policy, practice and research. Contributing authors challenge the image of women as hapless victim in their accounts of women who rebuilt flooded homes in Bangladesh, evacuated families from Australian bushfires, reconstructed communities after a Mexican earthquake, and mobilized women in Miami in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. From Bangladesh to Scotland, the case studies document the root causes of women's vulnerability to disaster and the central roles they play before, during and after disaster. The authors recommend strategies for policy makers and emergency practitioners to more fully engage women in disaster planning and response.
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Gender is revealed as a central organizing principle in social life when the unexpected transforms daily routines, environments, and social institutions. Using specific disaster experiences from around the world, this book argues for a gendered perspective in policy, practice and research. Contributing authors challenge the image of women as hapless victim in their accounts of women who rebuilt flooded homes in Bangladesh, evacuated families from Australian bushfires, reconstructed communities after a Mexican earthquake, and mobilized women in Miami in the wake of Hurricane Andrew. From Bangladesh to Scotland, the case studies document the root causes of women's vulnerability to disaster and the central roles they play before, during and after disaster. The authors recommend strategies for policy makers and emergency practitioners to more fully engage women in disaster planning and response.
New Perspectives on Gender Based Violence: from Research to Intervention, volume II
Author: Shulamit Ramon
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832547656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This Research Topic is the second volume of the series New Perspectives on Gender based Violence: from Research to Intervention. The first volume is available here: Volume I The European Institute for Gender Equality and the WHO underlined that the Gender based violence (GBV) and the Violence Against Women (VAW) involves principally women but also men, families and the societies in which they live. The GBV and the VAW reinforce the gender inequalities which are steeped in the cultural aspects and gender roles that either support and justify it. The United Nation defines VAW as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Many organizations, practitioners, and researchers have emphasized how GBV and VAW have increased exponentially since the outbreak of the Covid 19 Pandemic and how access to protection and advocacy services has become increasingly difficult.
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2832547656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This Research Topic is the second volume of the series New Perspectives on Gender based Violence: from Research to Intervention. The first volume is available here: Volume I The European Institute for Gender Equality and the WHO underlined that the Gender based violence (GBV) and the Violence Against Women (VAW) involves principally women but also men, families and the societies in which they live. The GBV and the VAW reinforce the gender inequalities which are steeped in the cultural aspects and gender roles that either support and justify it. The United Nation defines VAW as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." Many organizations, practitioners, and researchers have emphasized how GBV and VAW have increased exponentially since the outbreak of the Covid 19 Pandemic and how access to protection and advocacy services has become increasingly difficult.
A Guide to Gender-analysis Frameworks
Author: Candida March
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 9780855984038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This is a single-volume guide to all the main analytical frameworks for gender-sensitive research and planning. It draws on the experience of trainers and practitioners, and includes step-by-step instructions for using the frameworks.
Publisher: Oxfam
ISBN: 9780855984038
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
This is a single-volume guide to all the main analytical frameworks for gender-sensitive research and planning. It draws on the experience of trainers and practitioners, and includes step-by-step instructions for using the frameworks.
Handbook of Cultural Geography
Author: Kay Anderson
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761969259
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
"The editors of this genuinely brilliant book seem to dare the reader to argue with them from the first page... I would encourage everyone interested in cultural geography, or in the cultural turn within a whole set of human geogrphies, to do likewise." --ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS "A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities. Throbbing with commitment, and un-disciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be." --Professor Allan Pred Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley Ten sections, with a detailed editorial introduction, the Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive statement of the relation between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook is a textured overview that presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography, while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761969259
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
"The editors of this genuinely brilliant book seem to dare the reader to argue with them from the first page... I would encourage everyone interested in cultural geography, or in the cultural turn within a whole set of human geogrphies, to do likewise." --ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS "A richly plural and impassioned re-presentation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A re-visioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities. Throbbing with commitment, and un-disciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be." --Professor Allan Pred Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley Ten sections, with a detailed editorial introduction, the Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive statement of the relation between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook is a textured overview that presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography, while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines.
Gendering Women
Author: Suzanne Clisby
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 184742676X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Engaging and accessible, Gendering Women explores the constructions of femininity and how they fundamentally affect women's mental well being through the lifecourse. Drawing on accounts from women of growing up and growing older in the north of England, the book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman--in family life, education, employment, motherhood, and in the presence of violence--both enable and erode self-confidence and self-esteem. The volume draws a critical link between contemporary gender theory and the lived experiences of women today and will appeal to students and scholars in sociology and the broader social sciences.
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 184742676X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Engaging and accessible, Gendering Women explores the constructions of femininity and how they fundamentally affect women's mental well being through the lifecourse. Drawing on accounts from women of growing up and growing older in the north of England, the book shows how experiences of becoming and being a woman--in family life, education, employment, motherhood, and in the presence of violence--both enable and erode self-confidence and self-esteem. The volume draws a critical link between contemporary gender theory and the lived experiences of women today and will appeal to students and scholars in sociology and the broader social sciences.
Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Author: Bruno David
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315427710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1307
Book Description
Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315427710
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1307
Book Description
Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, over 80 archaeologists from three continents attempt a comprehensive definition of the ideas and practices of landscape archaeology, covering the theoretical and the practical, the research and conservation, and encasing the term in a global framework. As a basic reference volume for landscape archaeology, this volume will be the benchmark for decades to come. All royalties on this Handbook are donated to the World Archaeological Congress.
Gendered Spaces
Author: Daphne Spain
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807843574
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The history of spatial segregation at home and in the workplace and how it reinforces women's inequality.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807843574
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The history of spatial segregation at home and in the workplace and how it reinforces women's inequality.
Gender, Geography, and Punishment
Author: Judith Pallot
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199658617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Gaining access to a number of penal colonies to interview prisoners, the authors show that much in the Russian prison system today is a direct inheritance from the Soviet period with the result that, despite wide-ranging the reforms since 1991, the Russian penal experience for women is still uniquely painful.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199658617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Gaining access to a number of penal colonies to interview prisoners, the authors show that much in the Russian prison system today is a direct inheritance from the Soviet period with the result that, despite wide-ranging the reforms since 1991, the Russian penal experience for women is still uniquely painful.
New Models in Geography
Author: Richard Peet
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134998384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from cultural to economic and urban geography. The authors explore the connections between political economy and geographical thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134998384
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Two decades after the publication of the seminal Models in Geography, edited by Richard Chorley & Peter Haggett, this major collection of specially commissioned essays charts the new human geography from the perspective of political economy. Providing surveys of recent trends in theory, bibliographic guides to the literature, and pointers to advances and frontiers in thinking, the book ranges from cultural to economic and urban geography. The authors explore the connections between political economy and geographical thought in each area, with the emphasis lying on the processes of material production and social reproduction.