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020			_a9780143415954
082			_a305.40954/ _bPha
100			_aPhadke, Shilpa
245			_aWhy Loiter? _bWomen and Risk on Mumbai Streets
260			_c2011 _bPenguin _aHaryana
300			_axiv; 280p. _c8x5
520			_aPresenting 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.
546			_aENG
650			_aWomen-India-Mumbai-Social conditions
650			_aSex role-India-Mumbai
650			_aWomen-India-Mumbai-Economic conditions
700			_aKhan, Sameera
700			_aRanade, Shilpa
942			_cBK
999			_c85398 _d85398