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Why Loiter?: Women And Risk On Mumbai Streets Paperback – January 1, 2011

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Presenting an original take on women's safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation's urban public spaces. Basing this book on more than three years of research in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade argue that though women's access to urban public space has increased, they still do not have an equal claim to public space in the city. And they raise the question: can women's access to public space be viewed in isolation from that of other marginal groups? Going beyond the problem of the real and implied risks associated with women's presence in public, they draw from feminist theory to argue that only by celebrating loitering a radical act for most Indian women can a truly equal, global city be created.

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200 pages
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English
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Penguin Books
Publication date

January 1, 2011
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7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches
ISBN-10

0143415956
ISBN-13

978-0143415954
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (January 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143415956
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143415954
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.99 x 10 x 1.85 inches

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Henzo Broquee

why loiter?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2014

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this book covers many very important issues and is worth reading for anyone in any country.

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Relapsed Bookworm

The right to seek pleasure.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on January 14, 2023

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We have all noticed how few women are in public found nothing. This books puts that observation within a framework- the conditional access to women as long as they demonstrate they are good girls.

Parshati

Feels like a pirated copy

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on August 31, 2020

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The book is phenomenal.

The rating is for the quality of the book. The paper, the cutting, the binding makes me strongly suspect that this is a pirated copy. This wouldn't be the first time that I have received a fake from Amazon.

E. Jayaraman

An important book

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on September 13, 2013

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I think 'Why Loiter?' is an important book about being woman especially in countries like India. The authors explain how women are excluded from the society both culturally and how ack of infrastructure makes it worse. I would recommend this book to anyone envisioning a better society.

Sadly the book is not as well reached as it is supposed to be.

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Anamika Priyadarshani

Amazing

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on August 4, 2019

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Worth the price- the product.
The book- amazing for people are interested in the subject 'gender and public spaces' and Shilpa Phadke has done an amazing job with her research on the topic.

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It's a fun yet feminist claim that should be taken up by ...

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on March 30, 2017

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A simple yet profound book that makes the case for why women should loiter. It's a fun yet feminist claim that should be taken up by the women's movement in India. The fact that men are free to roam all day and night and have fun while women must stay at home is repulsive. Women want to have fun too!

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