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Why Loiter?: Women And Risk On Mumbai Streets

By Sameera Khan & Shilpa Ranade

Why Loiter?: Women And Risk On Mumbai Streets book

Why Loiter?: Women And Risk On Mumbai Streets

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Presenting an original take on women's safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation's urban public spaces. Basing this book on more than three years of research in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade argue that though women's access to urban public space has increased, they still do not have an equal claim to public space in the city. And they raise the question: can women's access to public space be viewed in isolation from that of other marginal groups? Going beyond the problem of the real and implied risks associated with women's presence in public, they draw from feminist theory to argue that only by celebrating loitering a radical act for most Indian women can a truly equal, global city be created.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2011-02-01
Publication Date:
2011-02-01
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0143415956
Weight:
240 g
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