Negotiating Middle-class Respectable Femininity: Bangladeshi Women and their Families
Using qualitative data, this article explains how affluent urban and new middle-class women in Bangladesh reconstruct the notion of respectable femininity within the family. The normative conception of middle-class women’s respectability is measured against women prioritizing family above work by pe...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2017-09-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4397 |