• ISBN13: 9789384082505
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: May 12, 2016
• Pages: 170
• Original Price: INR 1350.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 363 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Gerontology

Impaired Bodies, Gendered Lives: Everyday Realities of Disabled Women explores the intersections of gender and disability. Situating disabled women in their local contexts and using an ethnographic approach, this book also provides a review of empirical literature on disabled women, both globally and in India.

Nandini Ghosh is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. Her areas of interest are disability studies, sociology of gender, marginalization and social exclusion, social movements and qualitative research methodology. In addition to having published essays in journals and edited volumes, she has co-edited Pratyaha: Everyday Lifeworlds: Dilemmas, Contestations and Negotiations (2015) with Prasanta Ray.