عنوان

New Muslim women of Bangladesh /

(Number (ISBN

0429330146

(Number (ISBN

1000589544

(Number (ISBN

1000589579

(Number (ISBN

9780429330148

(Number (ISBN

9781000589542

(Number (ISBN

9781000589573

Erroneous ISBN

9780367352349

Erroneous ISBN

9781032269863

Number

bc10999

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

New Muslim women of Bangladesh /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Nazia Hussein.

Edition Statement

1 Edition.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2022.

Date

2205

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource.

Series Title

Routledge research on gender in Asia series;

Volume Designation

27

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people's sense of belonging within these spaces and temporalities. It offers an alternative and innovative theoretical framework - new womanhood - for studying middle-class, urban, educated, professional women in South Asia. The book places respectable femininity at the centre of the construction and performance of new womanhood in Bangladesh: a complex and heterogeneous construction of womanhood in relation to women's negotiations with public and private sphere roles and cultural norms of female propriety. It establishes new women as part of the neoliberal middle class as they construct their class identity as a status group, claiming inter-class and intra-class distinction from other women. It also explains how new womanhood is legitimized by alternative and multiple practices of respectability, varying according to women's age, stage of life, profession, household setting and experience of living in western countries. Finally, as new women forge alternative forms of respectability theirs is not a straightforward abandonment of old structures of respectability; rather they, substitute, conceal, or legitimize particular practices of respectability in particular fields. While these new women's gains are vested in the self, rather than a wider feminist politics, they have the potential to positively influence the terrain of possibilities for other women. Finally, through a study of cosmopolitan third world women who are part of a new and potentially powerful social group who occupy a privileged position in the society they live in, the book critiques Western feminist writing and challenges binary social construction of the 'Muslim woman' either as victims of patriarchal culture and religion or as a danger to Western liberalism, developing an understanding of cosmopolitan Muslim women's classed gender identity as a struggle against classifications in the neo-liberal times. It is the first book length project of its kind to provide an understanding of the concept of new women in the Global South, which will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, gender studies, feminist theory, postcolonialism, inequality studies, cultural theory, development studies and South Asian Studies"--

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Taylor & Francis

Stock Number

9780429330148

Title

New Muslim women of Bangladesh

International Standard Book Number

9780367352349

Femininity-- Bangladesh.

Women-- Bangladesh-- Social conditions.

Women-- Employment-- Bangladesh.

Women's rights-- Bangladesh.

Féminité-- Bangladesh.

Femmes-- Bangladesh-- Conditions sociales.

Femmes-- Droits-- Bangladesh.

Femininity.

Women-- Employment.

Women-- Social conditions.

Women's rights.

Bangladesh.

7

RGL

SOC-- 053000

Number

Edition

Class number

Hussein, Nazia

Date of Transaction

20220414005026.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

270410

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