Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh

This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion inform hierarchies of social locations and people's sense of belonging within these spaces, which will be of interest to sociology, feminist theory, postcolonialism, cultural theory and inequality/gender/development/South Asian studies.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Framing; 2. Conceptualizing boundaries of Respectable Femininity New Womenness: The proposed framework; 3. Reading the New Woman through Mobile Phone Advertisements: Capitals, Distinction and Respectability; 4. (Re)doing Respectability in the Workplace: Smart Dressing and Aesthetic Labour; 5. (Re)doing Respectability in the Family: Achieving to a 50-50 Work-Home Life Balance; 6. (Re)doing Womanhood: Pushing the Boundaries of Respectability...the Potential of Transgression; 7. Reflections; Bibliography

About the author

Nazia Hussein is Senior Lecturer in race at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, feminist theory, critical race theory and cultural studies.

Summary

This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion inform hierarchies of social locations and people’s sense of belonging within these spaces, which will be of interest to sociology, feminist theory, postcolonialism, cultural theory and inequality/gender/development/South Asian studies.

Product details

• Authors: Nazia Hussein, Nazia (University of Bristol Hussein
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9781032269863
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226986-3
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls