Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets
of Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan, Shilpa Ranade
Description
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.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280 pages
- Publisher Penguin Books
- Publication Date December 1st 2011
- First Publication 02/15/11
- Language Not informed
- ISBN 9780143415954
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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