Gendered Cityscapes: Perspectives on Identity and Equity in Urban Asia

Contents: 1. Rethinking the Intersectionality of Socio-Spatial Relations in Postcolonial India/Kamala Marius. 2. Bodily Transgressions and the Gendering of Trade in an Urban Fish Market/Holly M. Hapke. 3. Empowering Women/Siripurapu Padmaja. 4. Gender-Friendly Educational Programmes in Historical Urban Gardens/I. Kyselka, P. Hudec and P. Blizkovsky. 5. Disability, Gender and Urban Spaces in India/S. Karmakar and V. Saxena. 6. Fashion Trends and the Construction of an Idealized Femininity in Modern Urban Japan/Kyoko Koma. 7. Gender and Sexualization in Urban Japan/Hiromi Tanaka. 8. Urban Women, Sexuality and Patriarchy/Amitabh Singh and Jyoti Joshi. 9. Open Margins/Sandeep Kumar. 10. The Thai Urban Transgender Sex Workers/Kittikorn Sankatiprapa. 11. The Urban Girl Child and the Transformative Role of School Education/Aleesha Tangri. 12. Women’s Agency and Urban Spaces/Divya Upadhyaya Joshi and Pooja Bohra. 13. The Crises of Ethnicity and Urbanism in India/B.R. Pant and Raghubir Chand. 14. Domestic Violence and Gender in the Urban Himalayan Home/Chhavi Arya and Chetna Jantwal. 15. Changing Gender Ratios and Life in the Urban Central Himalaya/Ramesh Chandra Taragi and Raghubir Chand.

Gendered Cityscapes provides a glimpse into the complex realities of gender disparity that can be seen in urban spaces of most Asian nations. The varied facets of gender research in Asian Universities that is presented here indicates that corrective national policies that focus on persisting gender gaps and inequities are essential in most of these countries. The authors explore the emerging aspects of gendered urbanisms in Asia and present a roadmap of public and civic action needed to address the underlying determinants of gender gaps here.