Negotiating Middle-class Respectable Femininity: Bangladeshi Women and their Families

Using qualitative data, this article explains how affluent urban and new middle-class women in Bangladesh reconstruct the notion of respectable femininity within the family. The normative conception of middle-class women’s respectability is measured against women prioritizing family above work by pe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nazia Hussein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2017-09-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4397