Renegotiating Boundaries
Self Perception and Public Debate on Globalization and Gender Equality in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12499043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira Ganguly‐Scrase (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 58-100 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian Journal of Women s Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1225-9276 • E-ISSN: 2377-004X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/12259276.2002.11665937 |
| OpenAlex | W2284589616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
Global trends towards market economies have signalled the ascendancy of neo-liberal paradigms. Their impact in the Asia-Pacific region has brought about significant social and cultural change. For women the consequences of market liberalization and deeper integration into the global economy are often complex and contradictory. Developing countries such as India have pursued policies of economic liberalization over the last decade. Based on fieldwork among lower middle class families in West Bengal, India, this paper examines the apparent paradox between women's conceptions of empowerment and the reality of the overall negative impact of structural adjustment policies on women. I focus on the worldviews of Bengali lower middle classes concerning gender equality, which are mediated by both public debate and the globalized popular media. The analysis pays particular attention to the confluence of the pro-women consumer discourses of the global market with earlier developmentalist notions of the public role of women. By exploring the ways in which women have been recast within the debates on equality and empowerment, my paper considers the implication of these narratives in enabling women to expand their opportunities and disrupt hegemonic codes.Keywords: Womeneconomic liberalizationglobalizationIndiaempowermentethnography
Bengali · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic liberalization · Economics · Empowerment · Globalization · Hegemony · Liberalization · Middle class · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indian Economic and Social Development · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture
Women and Market Societies
Ethnography in/of the World System
Culture and Privilege in Capitalist Asia
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
Globalizing Method
Gender, markets and states
Intellectual origins of Indian economic reform
Globalisation and its discontents
India's New Economic Policy of 1991 and its Impact on Women's Poverty and Aids
Empowerment of Women
Empowerment of Women Panchayat Members
Power and Representation
Ideologies and Forms of Domination in the Organization of the Global Production and Consumption of Goods in the Emerging Postmodern Era
Celebrity Feminism
Explaining Economic Liberalization in India
Gender and advertisements
Gender implications of the “new” economic policy
Wife/mother/daughter-in-law
Captains of Consciousness
The Bharatiya Janata Party and globalisation of the Indian economy
The Social Logic of Liberalization
Bhadralok and Chhotolok in a Rural Area of West Bengal
Gendered Exclusion
Television, The Middle Classes and the Transformation of Cultural Identities in West Bengal, India
Development and rural women in South Asia
Rural women and the family in an era of liberalization
Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia
Structural adjustment program and gender concerns in India
Resources, Agency, Achievements
After Culture
Dependence and Autonomy
Agrarian class formation in India
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2010 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |