This paper is the product of over two years' fieldwork in two places: Central City, USA, and
the state of Kerala, India. In 1994 and 1995 I spent eighteen months in Central City at St …

Offering a further critique of spatial paradigms that set apart and circumscribe people and
cultures, Kirin Narayan argues that an “ideology of authenticity” undergirds the notion of …

This essay offers an insider's view of a specific service organization. By integrating the
models known as autobiographical enthnography (Goodall, 1989, 1991) and critical …

Feminist scholarship has drawn attention to the multiple places of labour and the
intersection of social relations that shape women's geographies of work. Acknowledging …

The historical interplay between women's roles and religious traditions has been a rich and
controversial one. Within the Judeo-Christian tradition, the Bible has been used to justify and …

This article examines the relationship between state, citizenship, communities and rights by
exploring the ways in which nurses from Kerala experience their professional lives and …

In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian
nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations …

Having indirectly and inadvertently brought Asian women to Britain, the racism of the state
and racism of British society now defines the wider position of Asian women in this country …

I want to say that you came to Nepal for two years, you wrote a book about the women's
movement, you did a Ph. D. But your work seems like nothing. Your book has no importance …

Laboring in low-paid jobs with poor conditions, migrant women are some of the most
vulnerable workers in the US labor market. These women often carry a disproportionate …