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.

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 Respectabilitythe Potential of Transgression; 7. Reflections; Bibliography

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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