Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 âNew Nepalâ was rising on the horizon and sheds light on Nepali womenâs experiences in multiple sites, crossing class and ethnic lines. It is based on extensive fieldwork among women domestic workers, construction workers, street vendors, women from the indigenous community of Hyolmo, and others. Mainly through an ethnographic approach, the author explores Nepali womenâs experiences on the ground, mostly situated in classed, ethnic, or other socio-cultural peripheries in Nepali social landscape.
Through the unusually intimate narrative on these women from the global south, who are still prone to be cast into a deeply colonial, simplistic image of âvictimized womenâ, readers will get a nuanced perspective of the
