Why loiter?: women and risk on Mumbai streets Phadke, Shilpa

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Phadke, Shilpa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Penguin Books Gurgaon 2011Description: xiv, 280 pISBN:

9780143415954

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331.40954 P4W4

Summary: 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. http://penguin.co.in/book/non-fiction/why-loiter/

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Table of Contents:

Part 1: City Limits
Part 2: Everyday Spaces
Part 3: In Search of Pleasure
Part 4: Imagining Utopias

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.

http://penguin.co.in/book/non-fiction/why-loiter/

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