Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa

This volume brings forward an understanding of the urban gendered experience in the Global South (the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa). It raises issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibility for women and men and shows how women's and men's interaction with various sites, routes, and spaces within the city is bounded by gender and sexuality. The papers in this book also investigate the local grammars of urbanity and rurality and explore how class, ethnic, and racial boundary-making impact men's and women's relationships to various spaces within the city. Further, there is a focus on the political space provided for gendered subjects to circumvent, resist, or renegotiate state sponsored attempts to reorder the urban landscape. Raising such questions in a comparative context is essential to refocus our research agendas and to inspire new studies.