Books by Jenneke Arens and Jos Van Beurden
Jhagrapur
by Jenneke Arens and Jos Van Beurden
When this book was published in 1977, it was one of the first in-depth accounts of the lives of rural women in Bangladesh. The authors are Dutch anthropologists who lived in Jhagrapur village for an extended period.
Interviews where books by Jenneke Arens and Jos Van Beurden were recommended
The best books on Rural Women in the Developing World, recommended by Khushi Kabir
The Bangladeshi campaigner for lifting women out of poverty says village life has been wrongly idealised. It is not a harmonious whole, with the elders looking after the interests of all the villagers alike
