This book analyzes the social and structural factors that contribute to, and legitimize, class inequity and women's poverty. The book provides a documentation of women's experiences of poverty and classism at the individual and interpersonal levels. It documents women's experien…
"When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When people are assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the celebrated parched lands of Northeast Brazil, Death Without Weeping is a luminously written, "womanly hearted" acc…
"Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women's shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creat…
Gender & caste
by Rao, Anupama
fromIssues in contemporary Indian feminism (London, England)
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pick…