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Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh by Nazia Hussein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"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 structure

Who reads Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh?

Author

Nazia Hussein

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000589542

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Gender Studies