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Negotiating Respectability: Comparing the experiences of poor and middle-class young urban women in India / Twamley, Katherine ; Sidharth, Juhi

KATHERINE TWAMLEY (a1) and JUHI SIDHARTH (a2)	Journal Article
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This article draws together two studies: one that explores the intimate relationships of young slum-dwelling Dalit women in Mumbai and the other of young middle-class women in Baroda, Gujarat. Using an intersectional lens, we trace the ways that gendered ideals of respectability shape women's freedom of movement and relationships. The comparison produces new insights into the ways that class, caste, and location cut across gender to shape young women's lives in India. We argue that the distinctive positionings of the women structure the ways in which they react to gender norms and the means with which they strategize around them. Middle-class young women strike a ‘passive bargain’, upholding ideals of respectability by shoring up symbolic capital for a ‘good’ marriage and class privilege. The Dalit women show more active resistance to an ideal that they struggle to achieve, despite heavy control and surveillance over their movement and relationships. However, contrary to previous research, we show that both groups are beholden and lay claim to similar gendered and intimate ideals.

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India ; Urban Women

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Women's labour in the Islamic Republic of Iran: losers and survivors / Behdad, Sohrab; Nomani, Farhad

Nomani, Farhad	Journal Article
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2012.

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This article examines the changes in the female class structure of the urban work force in post-revolutionary Iran by investigating the rate and pattern of the exclusion and the incorporation of women in the market between 1976 and 2006. We examine the gender marginalization thesis and test it empirically by focusing on the class nature of women's exclusion and incorporation into the labour force. We rely on decennial census data and present our empirical finding in the context of the social hierarchy of work. Moreover, we provide a comparative empirical analysis of the economic marginalization process for urban women's and men's class locations historically.

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Iran ; Islamic Republic of Iran ; Economic Marginalization ; Survivors ; Women Labour ; Urban Women

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