Educated Girls, Absent Grooms, and Runaway Brides: Narrating Social Change in Rural Bangladesh

This article explores the folk legend as one articulation of the social control of women in rural Bangladesh. Stories and legends emerged when women were interviewed about the effects of men leaving the village for wage-based jobs in cities and abroad. Interviews were analyzed via immersion, theme g...

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Main Author: Roslyn Fraser Schoen
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2015-01-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2178