Women, Political Struggles and Gender Equality in South Asia

Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Women, Political Struggles and Activism: Exploring the Lives of Women in South Asia; Margaret Alston PART I: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH ASIA 2. Responding to Rape: Feminism and Young Middle-Class Women in India; Sneha Krishnan 3. Gendered Violence: Forms, Incidence and Legislation in India; Sadhna Arya and Shashi Khurana 4. Women Struggles Against Structural-based Violence in Pakistan; Bushra Khaliq 5. Women in Bangladesh: Resistance Fighters and Invisible Heroes in the Economy and Society; Rokeya Kabir and Omar Tarek Chowdhury 6. Intergenerational Prostitution in India: How a Cultural Practice Constitutes Sex Trafficking; Alix Dolson PART II: ACTIVISM, RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT 7. Powerful Perpetrators: A Kathmandu Perspective; Bidushi Dhungel 8. Living on the Edge: Mapping Homeless Women's Mobilisation in Kolkata, India; Paromita Chakravarti 9. Money where the Mouth is: Women, Capital and a Land Rights Movement; Kaushiki Rao and Anusha Hariharan 10. Linking Traditions of Resistance; Aruna Burte PART III: POLITICS, LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION 11. Substantive Representation and Violence against Women (VAW) in Pakistan; Shaheen Ashraf, SHAH 12. The Intersection of the Public and Private for Pashtun Women in Politics; Mary Hope Schwoebel 13. Creating Spaces for Change: Santali Women's Role in Local Level politics in Rural India; Carol Wrenn 14. Women's Transformational leadership in Bangladesh: Potentials and Challenges; Nazmunnessa Mahtab 15. Women and Politics in Patriarchy: Case of Bangladesh; Mahmuda Islam Conclusion; Margaret Alston