Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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

Product details

• Authors: Nazia Hussein, Nazia (University of Bristol Hussein
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2022
• EAN: 9780367352349
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35234-9
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Religion: general, Politics & government, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Development Studies, Indian sub-continent, Islamic Life & Practice, Islamic life and practice