Shifting Circles of Support: Contextualising Kinship and Gender in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

by Rajni Palriwala (Editor)

An AltaMira Press Book Studying gender, kinship, economics, and politics as separate entities has led to a static view of culture, community, and family. Shifting Circles of Support breaks this practice by integrating the disciplines in order to better understand the dimensions of changing kinship and gender relations. Each chapter provides a case study which highlights different aspects of this theme--how people view gender relations, create them, live with them, and, in the process, become influenced by and deal with the wider economic and political environment.

340 pages, Hardcover

First published May 7, 1996