[Reader-list] Culture Cafe Invite : Book Reading: Why Loiter: 09 Dec 2011

[Shilpa Phadke]

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 *CULTURE CAFE*

*CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES*

*TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, MUMBAI*


 invites you to


 a Book Reading followed by a Discussion with the Authors


 Why Loiter

Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets

(Penguin Books India, 2011)

*by*

*Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade*



 Date:        09 December 2011

Time:        6 pm to 7.30 pm

Location:  Classroom IV, Main Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai


 Do men and women have equal access to public space in cities like Mumbai,
Delhi or Pune? Do all women have similar access? Is a girl’s reputation
more prized than her actual safety on the streets? Why does no one like
tall fences in parks? Are lower-class men the 'enemy' of girls out in
public? Do rich girls have more 'fun' than slum girls? Can ‘good little
women’ also have fun? And do Muslim women have fun at all? And what do
clothes have to do with it? For heaven’s sake, why can’t they just let us
loiter?



 About the Book:

Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets

Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first
century, *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?

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For a review of the book see:
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 About the Authors

Shilpa Phadke is assistant professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural
Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has been
educated at St. Xavier’s College, SNDT University, and Tata Institute of
Social Sciences, Mumbai and the University of Cambridge, UK.

Sameera Khan is a Mumbai-based journalist and writer. A former assistant
editor at The Times of India, she is currently researching the old Muslim
neighbourhoods of Mumbai. She teaches journalism at the Tata Institute of
Social Sciences and has a BA from St. Xavier’s College and an MS in
Journalism from Columbia University, New York.

Shilpa Ranade trained in architecture from CEPT, Ahmedabad and has an MA in
Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Shilpa has been associate editor of the South Asian volume in the series
‘World Architecture 1900–2000: A Critical Mosaic’. Shilpa is a partner in
the design firm DCOOP in Mumbai.