Gender Social Change and The Media : Perspectives from Nepal

Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Gender social change and the media: 1. The interplay between gender, religion and politics and the new violence against women in Nepal/Enrica Garzilli. 2. Gender and social change among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley 1970-2004/Gerard Toffin. 3. Gendered culture and gendered Democracy: maoist insurgency and implications on women a feminist critique/Chandra Bhadra. 4. Democracy governance and media in Nepal/Lok Raj Baral. II. Society art and theatre: 5. Women's travel maps: text power and space/Sangita Rayamajhi. 6. Role of art and rule of politics: dynamics of Nepali Democracy/Abhi Subedi. 7. A Doll's house: trope of intercultural theatre/Shiva Rijal. 8. Statements from theatre practitioners/Hanne Lund Jensen, Sunil Pokharel and Nisha Sharma. Index. 

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. (jacket)