Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets
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Shilpa Phadke & Sameera Khan & Shilpa Ranade
Penguin India,
200 pages, R299
This book maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation's urban public spaces in the 21st century. The authors 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.
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