Women and Invisible Boundaries
A Case of Slippage in Sanitation in Two Gram Panchayats, Shravasti, UP, India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2184050 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kopal Khare (0000-0002-4316-2486), Lavanya Suresh (0000-0002-2202-2433) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-304 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Human Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9888 • E-ISSN: 1469-9516 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19452829.2024.2333895 |
| OpenAlex | W4393355468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 26 |
Sustainable management of water and sanitation is inextricably linked with women’s health and well-being. This paper investigates slippage in sanitation, experienced by women beneficiaries of the Swacch Bharat Mission Rural programme through Amartya Sen’s conception of justice. A total of 135 individuals were interviewed from 49 households in Kanjadwa and Madhnagar Manoharpur Gram Panchayats, Shravasti, India, out of which 90 were women. As per findings, 30% of women practice open defaecation despite possessing toilets, resulting in slippage. The Sanitation Well-being framework is deployed to study slippage and its linkage with women’s agency. Personal, cultural, and structural factors contributing to this are child marriage, denial of education and employment opportunities, slut shaming, victim blaming, domestic violence, and character assassination. These are made worse by the state adoption of misogynistic IEC messages that reinforce cultural stereotypes and worsen women's condition. In the quest to attain ODF status in Ikauna Block, UP, the current sanitation programme became a tool of suppression. Consequently, we understand that open defaecation among women is an outcome of the basic unfreedoms rather than a volitional choice that prevents them from experiencing sanitation well-being
Business · Denial · Economic growth · Economics · Open defecation · Political science · Sanitation · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Engineering · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Well-Being, Agency and Freedom
The Idea of Justice1
Why the Capability Approach
Women's Capabilities and Social Justice
Women as Pioneers
Enabling Factors for Sustaining Open Defecation-Free Communities in Rural Indonesia
Sanitation marketing
Capabilities as Fundamental Entitlements
Women’s Experiences of Defecating in the Open
Social Taboos and Menstrual Practices in the Pindar Valley
Fostering equity and wellbeing through water
The water, sanitation and hygiene gender equality measure (Wash-GEM)
The Politics of Open Defecation
Policy making through thick and thin
Sanitation-related psychosocial stress
The Virgin and the State
Determining Validity in Qualitative Inquiry
Fundamentalism, women's empowerment and reproductive rights
Women, religious fundamentalism and reproductive rights
Resources, Agency, Achievements
The Idea of Justice
Beyond the Qualitative Interview
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |