Rajni Palriwala
Biographic Data
| ID | 118956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajni Palriwala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajni |
| FAMILY NAME | Palriwala |
| SIGNATURE | PALRIWALA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
(Wl 1270)-Analysing the Co-constitution of Unpaid Care Labour and Paid Work
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Amrita Nandy. Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women
In Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childless Women the author wishes to shed light on gender roles and gendered structures in ideas and practices of motherhood and (non-) mothering in (North) India across “institutions, experience and agency” through a feminist post-structuralist perspective. Struck by her own uncertainty about motherhood despite the apparent ubiquity and compulsions of pro-natalism and the naturalization of women as mot…
Conceptualising Subjectivities and Rationalities in Understanding Gendered Violence: Processes of Social and Cultural Change
International development policy and programming that is geared towards women’s empowerment through reversing normalization around gendered violence tends to focus either on social norm change (in line with much social science research) or, more commonly, on increasing women’s paid work. In this article, we argue that neither exclusive focus on social norm/mindset change nor on women’s economic engagement can come to grips with what sustains or m…
Framing Care: Gender, Labour and Governmentalities
Care is performed at the intersections of various social differentiations in which its gendering appears tenacious. This article delineates four thematic clusters that variously focus on the work, relations, practices and politics of care, and elaborates on some organising concepts, studies and arguments. These framings overlap and question each other: the sexual division of labour, mothering, the economic and social value of women’s domestic wor…
Debating Gender Inequalities: Culture, Economics and Choice
This paper looks at a little-known part of Leela Dube’s writings through a debate between her and the economic historian, Dharma Kumar, on sex-selective abortion. Drawing on comparative and cross-cultural work on gender and kinship, Dube questioned the application of demandsupply dynamics to social relations and was prescient of later developments in the juvenile sex ratio. The paper argues that Dube and the debate draws attention to four themes …
The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in India
L'Inde, avec ses lois et ses concepts juridiques, ne peut pas, ou ne veut pas, aborder la nature spécifique des travailleuses domestiques, leurs milieux de travail et leurs relations de travail. La non-reconnaissance du foyer en tant que lieu de travail est définie comme un facteur crucial lié à l'invisibilité et à la dévaluation des soins et du travail domestique non payé, ainsi que la majorité du travail effectué par les femmes en Inde. Le sexe…
Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare
This article explores the political and social economy of care in India through a focus on childcare practices, from the viewpoint of the care giver - a perspective frequently ignored or touched on only generally in earlier discussions on development or social policy. It is argued that the care regime is an ad hoc summation of informal, stratified practices. It is shaped by the institutional context, in particular the economic and social inequali…
Marriage, Migration and Gender
Proceedings of the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003
Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative1
Marriage and Migration in Asia: Gender Issues
The articles in this special issue bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on aspects of marriage and migration in intra- and transnational contexts. In particular they consider: (a) how given specific rules of marriage and (post-marital) residence the institution of marriage may itself entail womens migration; (b) how marriage can be used as an individual and family strategy to facilitate migration and conversely how migration may become an…
Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative
This article explores the methodological and epistemological challenges of fieldwork in postcolonial anthropology. It argues that the experience of fieldwork, often characterized by encounters with difference and alterity, needs to be rethought in light of the complex power dynamics and historical legacies of colonialism. The author suggests that a comparative approach, attentive to both the specificities of local contexts and the broader global …
Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household
Structures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family
Structures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family
Structures and Strategies: Women, Work, and Family
Introduction - Rajni Palrewala Transformation of Gender Structure in Cheju Island - Haejoang Cho Gender and Inter-generational Resource Allocation Among Thai and Sino-Thai Households - M Cristina Blanc-Szanton Migration, 'Progressive Motherhood' and Female Autonomy - Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes Catholic Women in Goa Work and Modesty - Johanna Lessinger The Dilemma of Women Market Traders in Madras Class Relations, Family Structure, and Bondage of Wo…
Women and the Household in Asia
Marriage and Migration in Asia: Gender Issues
The articles in this special issue bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on aspects of marriage and migration in intra- and transnational contexts. In particular they consider: (a) how given specific rules of marriage and (post-marital) residence the institution of marriage may itself entail womens migration; (b) how marriage can be used as an individual and family strategy to facilitate migration and conversely how migration may become an…
The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in India
L'Inde, avec ses lois et ses concepts juridiques, ne peut pas, ou ne veut pas, aborder la nature spécifique des travailleuses domestiques, leurs milieux de travail et leurs relations de travail. La non-reconnaissance du foyer en tant que lieu de travail est définie comme un facteur crucial lié à l'invisibilité et à la dévaluation des soins et du travail domestique non payé, ainsi que la majorité du travail effectué par les femmes en Inde. Le sexe…
Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative
This article explores the methodological and epistemological challenges of fieldwork in postcolonial anthropology. It argues that the experience of fieldwork, often characterized by encounters with difference and alterity, needs to be rethought in light of the complex power dynamics and historical legacies of colonialism. The author suggests that a comparative approach, attentive to both the specificities of local contexts and the broader global …
Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household
Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare
This article explores the political and social economy of care in India through a focus on childcare practices, from the viewpoint of the care giver - a perspective frequently ignored or touched on only generally in earlier discussions on development or social policy. It is argued that the care regime is an ad hoc summation of informal, stratified practices. It is shaped by the institutional context, in particular the economic and social inequali…
Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative1
Framing Care: Gender, Labour and Governmentalities
Care is performed at the intersections of various social differentiations in which its gendering appears tenacious. This article delineates four thematic clusters that variously focus on the work, relations, practices and politics of care, and elaborates on some organising concepts, studies and arguments. These framings overlap and question each other: the sexual division of labour, mothering, the economic and social value of women’s domestic wor…
Debating Gender Inequalities: Culture, Economics and Choice
This paper looks at a little-known part of Leela Dube’s writings through a debate between her and the economic historian, Dharma Kumar, on sex-selective abortion. Drawing on comparative and cross-cultural work on gender and kinship, Dube questioned the application of demandsupply dynamics to social relations and was prescient of later developments in the juvenile sex ratio. The paper argues that Dube and the debate draws attention to four themes …
Women and the Household in Asia
Women and the Household in Asia
Structures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family
Structures and Strategies: Women, Work and Family
Structures and Strategies: Women, Work, and Family
Introduction - Rajni Palrewala Transformation of Gender Structure in Cheju Island - Haejoang Cho Gender and Inter-generational Resource Allocation Among Thai and Sino-Thai Households - M Cristina Blanc-Szanton Migration, 'Progressive Motherhood' and Female Autonomy - Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes Catholic Women in Goa Work and Modesty - Johanna Lessinger The Dilemma of Women Market Traders in Madras Class Relations, Family Structure, and Bondage of Wo…
Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household
Marriage and Migration in Asia: Gender Issues
The articles in this special issue bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on aspects of marriage and migration in intra- and transnational contexts. In particular they consider: (a) how given specific rules of marriage and (post-marital) residence the institution of marriage may itself entail womens migration; (b) how marriage can be used as an individual and family strategy to facilitate migration and conversely how migration may become an…
Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative
This article explores the methodological and epistemological challenges of fieldwork in postcolonial anthropology. It argues that the experience of fieldwork, often characterized by encounters with difference and alterity, needs to be rethought in light of the complex power dynamics and historical legacies of colonialism. The author suggests that a comparative approach, attentive to both the specificities of local contexts and the broader global …
Fieldwork in a post-colonial anthropology. Experience and the comparative1
Marriage, Migration and Gender
Proceedings of the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003
The Absence of State Law: Domestic Workers in India
L'Inde, avec ses lois et ses concepts juridiques, ne peut pas, ou ne veut pas, aborder la nature spécifique des travailleuses domestiques, leurs milieux de travail et leurs relations de travail. La non-reconnaissance du foyer en tant que lieu de travail est définie comme un facteur crucial lié à l'invisibilité et à la dévaluation des soins et du travail domestique non payé, ainsi que la majorité du travail effectué par les femmes en Inde. Le sexe…
Stratified Familialism: The Care Regime in India through the Lens of Childcare
This article explores the political and social economy of care in India through a focus on childcare practices, from the viewpoint of the care giver - a perspective frequently ignored or touched on only generally in earlier discussions on development or social policy. It is argued that the care regime is an ad hoc summation of informal, stratified practices. It is shaped by the institutional context, in particular the economic and social inequali…
Debating Gender Inequalities: Culture, Economics and Choice
This paper looks at a little-known part of Leela Dube’s writings through a debate between her and the economic historian, Dharma Kumar, on sex-selective abortion. Drawing on comparative and cross-cultural work on gender and kinship, Dube questioned the application of demandsupply dynamics to social relations and was prescient of later developments in the juvenile sex ratio. The paper argues that Dube and the debate draws attention to four themes …
Framing Care: Gender, Labour and Governmentalities
Care is performed at the intersections of various social differentiations in which its gendering appears tenacious. This article delineates four thematic clusters that variously focus on the work, relations, practices and politics of care, and elaborates on some organising concepts, studies and arguments. These framings overlap and question each other: the sexual division of labour, mothering, the economic and social value of women’s domestic wor…
Conceptualising Subjectivities and Rationalities in Understanding Gendered Violence: Processes of Social and Cultural Change
International development policy and programming that is geared towards women’s empowerment through reversing normalization around gendered violence tends to focus either on social norm change (in line with much social science research) or, more commonly, on increasing women’s paid work. In this article, we argue that neither exclusive focus on social norm/mindset change nor on women’s economic engagement can come to grips with what sustains or m…
Amrita Nandy. Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women
In Motherhood and Choice: Uncommon Mothers, Childless Women the author wishes to shed light on gender roles and gendered structures in ideas and practices of motherhood and (non-) mothering in (North) India across “institutions, experience and agency” through a feminist post-structuralist perspective. Struck by her own uncertainty about motherhood despite the apparent ubiquity and compulsions of pro-natalism and the naturalization of women as mot…
(Wl 1270)-Analysing the Co-constitution of Unpaid Care Labour and Paid Work
,
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works)