Gender, Identity and Multiple Marginalities: Essays in Honour of Professor Yogendra Singh

This book is the last of the four-volume Festschrift Modernization, Globalization and Social Transformation in honour of one of the stalwarts of sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh. In this volume entitled Gender, Identity and Multiple Marginalities papers have been placed in two sections: women/gender and identity and multiple marginalities. The first part of the volume looks at the gender dimension of globalization covering issues such as women in cyberspace, women in sciences, safety of women, economic equality and gender neutrality, women in urban space etc. Gender being the central issue of discussion in the first part, the second part touches upon important issue of identity and marginalization of tribals, dalits, minorities, aged, children and the disabled. Essays included in this volume are written by academics from myriad disciplines. Providing a good discussion on the ongoing debates, this collection will give a deeper understanding on gender, identity and the issue of marginalization in the globalizing society.