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Since the early 1990s, feminists in India have been rallying against integrating. the Indian economy into the world market, perceiving it as a phenomenon which. will lead to increased feminisation of poverty and the commodification of women. This anthology explores the impact of globalisation on Indian women and the struggle. for gender equality. Since urban India has taken the initial benefit and brunt. of globalisation, the focus here is on urban women, particularly from the educated. middle class. The two dozen essays in this book offer insights into:. - gender identity, gender relations an

Metadata only record ; This book offers a comprehensive collection of in depth case studies focused on the lives of women who make their livelihoods on the streets of urban and semi-urban Africa. Classified into broader themes of migration and urbanization, marriage and family, markets and livelihoods, and politics and community, the book covers an extensive range of both history and geography. Some sections offer an overview of gender transitions throughout various movements for independence, while others offer intellectual discussion over controversial and difficult issues such as polygyny and AIDS. The latter part of the book focuses on women's formal and informal social networks. This includes research through comparing the livelihood strategies employed by women in the market place in relation to their social, physical, and human capital as well as a discussion of the solidarity formed through women's networks in various political movements in more recent experience.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Map of African National Capitals and Cities Germane to the Text -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Urban African Women: Courtyards, Markets, City Streets -- Part 2 Migration and Urbanization -- 2 South African Women and Migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1880-1935 -- 3 Transitions in Kenyan Patriarchy: Attempts to Control Nairobi Area Traders, 1920-1963 -- 4 Three Generations of Hausa Women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 -- Part 3 Courtyards: Marriage, Family, and Housing -- 5 Washing Dirty Laundry in Public: Local Courts, Custom, and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Lusaka -- 6 Can Polygyny Be Avoided in Dakar? -- 7 Health, Gender Relations, and Poverty in the AIDS Era -- 8 Moving and Coping: Women Tenants in Gweru -- Part 4 Markets: Work and Survival -- 9 Women in Business: Class and Nairobi's Small and Medium-Sized Producers -- 10 Beyond Simple Survival: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- 11 Prostitution, a Petit-métier During Economic Crisis: A Road to Women's Liberation? The Case of Cameroon -- Part 5 City Streets: Politics and Community -- 12 "I Am with You as Never Before": Women in Urban Protest Movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 -- 13 Urban Women's Movements and Political Liberalization in East Africa -- Selected References -- About the Book and Editor -- About the Contributors -- Index

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This article examines the history of prostitution in Tiflis from its legalization in the Russian Empire to the implementation of the regulation and monitoring of prostitution in Georgia between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It presents previously unknown facts related to prostitution surrounding the government's regulation and medicalization of the practice to public attitudes towards it. This article also highlights the intersection of gender, class, and political power in shaping attitudes toward prostitution and regulating sexuality. Furthermore, it argues that the concerns surrounding prostitution in Tiflis reflected wider anxieties about social change. Finally, the article illustrates how the history of prostitution in Tiflis reveals the selective nature of major historical and national narratives and the exclusion of marginalized groups from social and economic discourse in twentieth-century Georgia.