About the Book: Mobile Communication Systems for Private Networks
This book highlights accounts of women workers to capture the domains of
gendered mobility, which challenges the exalted status conferred on women in the
Kerala model of development. It contests and deconstructs the development
discourse which considers womens work mobility as an indicator of autonomy and
agency using Capability Approach. The concept of transformational mobility and
its measurement introduced in the book advances the understanding of mobility,
autonomy and agency and the intersectionality in the context of gender and work.
Through an in-depth exploration of lived experiences of informal women workers
the author illustrates how patriarchal structures