Praveena Kodoth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1257782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Praveena Kodoth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Praveena |
| FAMILY NAME | Kodoth |
| SIGNATURE | KODOTH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre For Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5905-4319 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
(Wl 1270)-Analysing the Co-constitution of Unpaid Care Labour and Paid Work
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RGS Sp 2025-wl-6194-Contingent Aspirations and Employment Dynamics among Higher Educated Young Mothers in Kerala
This paper intervenes in the debate on what explains women’s movements in and out of the labour market by probing the life course history of higher educated mothers of young children in Kerala. We find that the women’s employment was interrupted by re-adjustments occasioned primarily by marriage, health risks of pregnancy, child birth, family care responsibilities and higher studies. Women were also constrained, sometimes, by circumstances involv…
Paternalist Governance, Tacit Accommodations
Women’s labour mobility to the Middle East is governed by repressive rules that are not applicable to professionals, male workers or workers going to most other parts of the world. These include a minimum age of 30 years and recruitment exclusively by specified state-run agencies. Private recruitment even through close relatives is prohibited. A paternalist approach to governance fosters control over the mobility of women who are predominantly fr…
Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala
In January 2006, at a workshop on Social Protection of Migrant Workers at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Trivandrum, a senior scholar of international migration recommended a total ban on the movement of women domestic workers to the Gulf region, citing extremely harsh working conditions. This was in accordance with the strong sentiment at the workshop that the severe exploitation of women migrant domestic workers warranted measures …
Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala Gender, State Policy and the Politics of Movement
Gender, Caste and Matchmaking in Kerala
The matrilineal castes of northern Kerala consider dowry demeaning and resort to it only in 'exceptional' circumstances. In local discourse, dowry is transacted when women are considered 'old' by the standards of the marriage market, where over-age is a condition reached usually on account of what is considered a deficit of a normative conception of femininity. Dowry is practised openly only by poor and socially vulnerable households, as the rela…
Gender, community and identity in Christian property law reform
Gender, Family and Property Rights
The structures and practices of families are crucial in determining gender-differentiated patterns of access to land and other forms of property/productive resources. However, major redistributional or reform programmes such as that of land have failed to take this into account. This paper addresses, conceptually, women's and men's claims to land/property in terms of via more recent land reforms experience to discuss the importance to property re…
Courting Legitimacy or Delegitimizing Custom? Sexuality, Sambandham, and Marriage Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Malabar
At an interview which Della Vella [seventeenth century] had with the Zamorin, [the Samudiri or the ruler of Calicut] there were present two little princesses of the Royal house aged 12 years each; and of them he says, 'they were all naked (as I said above the women generally go) saving that they had a very small blue cloth wrapped about their immodesties. One of them being more forward could not contain, but approaching gently towards me, almost …
Courting Legitimacy or Delegitimizing Custom? Sexuality, Sambandham, and Marriage Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Malabar
At an interview which Della Vella [seventeenth century] had with the Zamorin, [the Samudiri or the ruler of Calicut] there were present two little princesses of the Royal house aged 12 years each; and of them he says, 'they were all naked (as I said above the women generally go) saving that they had a very small blue cloth wrapped about their immodesties. One of them being more forward could not contain, but approaching gently towards me, almost …
Gender, Caste and Matchmaking in Kerala
The matrilineal castes of northern Kerala consider dowry demeaning and resort to it only in 'exceptional' circumstances. In local discourse, dowry is transacted when women are considered 'old' by the standards of the marriage market, where over-age is a condition reached usually on account of what is considered a deficit of a normative conception of femininity. Dowry is practised openly only by poor and socially vulnerable households, as the rela…
Gender, Family and Property Rights
The structures and practices of families are crucial in determining gender-differentiated patterns of access to land and other forms of property/productive resources. However, major redistributional or reform programmes such as that of land have failed to take this into account. This paper addresses, conceptually, women's and men's claims to land/property in terms of via more recent land reforms experience to discuss the importance to property re…
Gender, community and identity in Christian property law reform
Gender, Family and Property Rights
The structures and practices of families are crucial in determining gender-differentiated patterns of access to land and other forms of property/productive resources. However, major redistributional or reform programmes such as that of land have failed to take this into account. This paper addresses, conceptually, women's and men's claims to land/property in terms of via more recent land reforms experience to discuss the importance to property re…
Courting Legitimacy or Delegitimizing Custom? Sexuality, Sambandham, and Marriage Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Malabar
At an interview which Della Vella [seventeenth century] had with the Zamorin, [the Samudiri or the ruler of Calicut] there were present two little princesses of the Royal house aged 12 years each; and of them he says, 'they were all naked (as I said above the women generally go) saving that they had a very small blue cloth wrapped about their immodesties. One of them being more forward could not contain, but approaching gently towards me, almost …
Gender, community and identity in Christian property law reform
Gender, Caste and Matchmaking in Kerala
The matrilineal castes of northern Kerala consider dowry demeaning and resort to it only in 'exceptional' circumstances. In local discourse, dowry is transacted when women are considered 'old' by the standards of the marriage market, where over-age is a condition reached usually on account of what is considered a deficit of a normative conception of femininity. Dowry is practised openly only by poor and socially vulnerable households, as the rela…
Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala
In January 2006, at a workshop on Social Protection of Migrant Workers at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in Trivandrum, a senior scholar of international migration recommended a total ban on the movement of women domestic workers to the Gulf region, citing extremely harsh working conditions. This was in accordance with the strong sentiment at the workshop that the severe exploitation of women migrant domestic workers warranted measures …
Emigration of Female Domestic Workers from Kerala Gender, State Policy and the Politics of Movement
(Wl 1270)-Analysing the Co-constitution of Unpaid Care Labour and Paid Work
,
RGS Sp 2025-wl-6194-Contingent Aspirations and Employment Dynamics among Higher Educated Young Mothers in Kerala
This paper intervenes in the debate on what explains women’s movements in and out of the labour market by probing the life course history of higher educated mothers of young children in Kerala. We find that the women’s employment was interrupted by re-adjustments occasioned primarily by marriage, health risks of pregnancy, child birth, family care responsibilities and higher studies. Women were also constrained, sometimes, by circumstances involv…
Paternalist Governance, Tacit Accommodations
Women’s labour mobility to the Middle East is governed by repressive rules that are not applicable to professionals, male workers or workers going to most other parts of the world. These include a minimum age of 30 years and recruitment exclusively by specified state-run agencies. Private recruitment even through close relatives is prohibited. A paternalist approach to governance fosters control over the mobility of women who are predominantly fr…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works)