Seika Sato (Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan)

Women in 'New Nepal'

Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when 'New Nepal' was rising on the horizon.

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Produktdetails

• Nepal and Himalayan Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9781032259369
• ISBN-10: 1032259361
• Artikelnr.: 66741547

Autorenporträt

Seika Sato is a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Teikyo University. She has worked on ethnographic studies in Nepal, centering around various issues in lives of minority women. She is the author of Conversing with the Hyolmo Women: An Anthropology of Life/Story in Nepal (Tokyo: Sangensha, 2015, in Japanese).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I From the Classed Peripheries 1. 'Satisfied with My
Job': Exploring the World of Women Construction Workers. 2. 'Domestic
Workers are Workers': Present State of Women in Paid Domestic Work. 3.
'Self-employed': Street Vendors in the Age of Neoliberalism. Part II From
the Ethnic Peripheries 4. Hyolmo Women on the Move: Marriage, Migrant Work,
and Relocation to Kathmandu. 5. Talking Feminism with an Indigenous Woman:
Dolma's Life Story. Part III From the Gendered Peripheries 6. Women's Place
in Nepal's Democratization. 7. From the Peripheries of Nepal's
Developmental Order: Views of Janajati and Dalit Women. 8. Women's Body in
Public Spaces: Exclusion in the Form of Sexual Harassment