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Gendering the Massification Generation

Higher Education Access and Choice in India

By: Emily F. Henderson,Nidhi S. Sabharwal,Anjali Thomas,Julie Mansuy,Ann Stewart,Sharmila Rathee,Renu Yadav,Nikita Samanta

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Gendering the Massification Generation

Higher Education Access and Choice in India

By: Emily F. Henderson,Nidhi S. Sabharwal,Anjali Thomas,Julie Mansuy,Ann Stewart,Sharmila Rathee,Renu Yadav,Nikita Samanta

Gendering the Massification Generation examines why young people from the same families and communities in India experience different decision-making processes regarding higher education access because of their gender. In India and other contexts where higher education is massifying, and gender parity of enrolment has been reached at undergraduate level, there are still many questions to be asked about gender and access to higher education. Based on an exploratory study of gendered higher education access and choice within the state of Haryana, India, the authors explore gender inequalities of higher education access and choice in the Indian context and connect this with the broader international phenomenon of widening participation. Through an in-depth analysis of the ‘massification generation’, where young people from relatively disadvantaged backgrounds are accessing higher education, often for the first time in their families and communities, readers are encouraged to apply a lens of social disadvantage and gender, and to recognise the norms and transgressions of femininity and masculinity in relation to higher education access and choice. With global implications for the ways in which gender is analysed and framed in widening participation research and policy, this is the ideal book for scholars, students and policy makers working on higher education, as well as researchers and NGOs specialising in gender, school-to-higher education transitions, international development, sociology and area studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040009573

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A Different Freedom

Kite Flying in Western India; Culture and Tradition

By: Nikita Desai

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A Different Freedom

Kite Flying in Western India; Culture and Tradition

By: Nikita Desai

Kite flying is a sport native to South-East Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Symbolic of both freedom and control, the kite has been used as a metaphor in classical Indian literature, poetry, language and folklore. Uttarayan, a kite festival celebrated in the state of Gujarat, is not merely a religious observance, but also a time when young and old come together in celebration; a time when differences hold little meaning… The culture of flying and fighting kites, its history, politics, language, and the commerce that lies at the core of the Gujarati way of life provide an interesting backdrop to the celebration of Uttarayan. The buying of kites, preparations in the kitchen and the rooftop wars all form a part of this colourful festival. A Different Freedom explorers the world of the kite, as it travels and changes through the centuries, to its current form and the festivities associated with it in modern day Gujarat.

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