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Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh (Hardcover)
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Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
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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 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 neoliberal 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.
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