About the Book

This book is an informative, engaging and critical attempt to contribute to a profound discussion about gender and social change in landlocked Nepal in South Asia. It covers new ground relating to the challenges women face in terms of the enormous changes taking place in the Nepalese society. The key themes embody a diverse number of interdisciplinary areas such as historically contextualized analysis of women’s rights; religion, caste and women’s status; changing cultures, migration and change in gender relations; war, violence and social conflict and its relationship to changes at the household level in terms of gender; education, media, governance and democracy’s relations to women’s changing status in society; and arts and theatre and how it impacts women’s situation in Nepal.

The book is an important addition to the existing scanty literature on social and cultural change in Nepal. With the contributions of well-known experts in the field, not only it provides new and challenging perspectives on women and changing gender relations with a profound focus on inequality, or uneven development, but also the dynamism involved in rapid social change.

CONTRIBUTORS

Lok Raj Baral

Torsten Rødel Berg

Chandra Bhadra

Enrica Garzilli

Hanne Lund Jensen

Sunil Pokharel

Sangita Rayamajhi

Shiva Rijal

Johannes D. Schmidt

Nisha Sharma

Abhi Subedi

Gérard Toffin

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About the Author / Editor

Johannes Dragsbæk Schmidt is Associate Professor, Development and International Relations, Aalborg University, Denmark.

Torsten Rødel Berg is Consultant and External Lecturer, Development and International Relations, Aalborg University, Denmark.

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