Women in 'New Nepal'

This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when 'New Nepal' was rising on the horizon.

Autorentext

Seika Sato is a professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Teikyo University. She has worked on ethnographic studies in Nepal, centering around various issues in lives of minority women. She is the author of Conversing with the Hyolmo Women: An Anthropology of Life/Story in Nepal (Tokyo: Sangensha, 2015, in Japanese).

Inhalt

Introduction. Part I From the Classed Peripheries 1. 'Satisfied with My Job': Exploring the World of Women Construction Workers. 2. 'Domestic Workers are Workers': Present State of Women in Paid Domestic Work. 3. 'Self-employed': Street Vendors in the Age of Neoliberalism. Part II From the Ethnic Peripheries 4. Hyolmo Women on the Move: Marriage, Migrant Work, and Relocation to Kathmandu. 5. Talking Feminism with an Indigenous Woman: Dolma's Life Story. Part III F**rom the Gendered Peripheries6. Women's Place in Nepal's Democratization. 7. From the Peripheries of Nepal's Developmental Order: Views of Janajati and Dalit Women. 8.** Women's Body in Public Spaces: Exclusion in the Form of Sexual Harassment