Naila Kabeer
This article examines the implications of women's access to income‐earning opportunities for their position in intra‐household relationships. For those who believe that such relationships are egalitarian, this issue may not appear relevant; for others, however, there is a divergence of views between...
Lamia Karim
This article is an ethnographic study of the effects of micro-credit on gender relations in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and three other leading non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the country, I analyze the role of gender in th...
Farhana Sultana
This article seeks to contribute to the emerging debates in gender–water and gender–nature literatures by looking at the ways that gendered subjectivities are simultaneously (re)produced by societal, spatial and natural/ecological factors, as well as materialities of the body and of heterogeneous wa...
Lamia Karim
Preface Abbreviations Introduction: Neoliberalism, Microfinance, and Women's Empowerment 1. The Structural Transformation of the NGO Sphere 2. The Research Terrain 3. The Everyday Mediations of Microfinance 4. The Social Life of Debt 5. NGOs, Clergy, and Contested Democracy 6. Power/Knowledge in Mic...
In recent years the British mass media have discovered a new and urgent social problem - the Asian gang. Images of urban deprivation and the Underclass have combined with fears of growing youth militancy and masculinities-in-crisis to position Asian, and especially Muslim, young men as the new folk ...
Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron, Michael Young
This is non-fiction Brick Lane -what life is really like around Brick Lane and the East End. One of the most influential non-fiction books of the 1950s was Family and Kinship in East London which examined in great depth the life of people living in the dockland areas that had been so comprehensively...
Katy Gardner
Abstract Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Immigrant communities are usually studied in the context of the country people have migrated to; Katy Gardner, however, looks at the neglected `sending' side of the equation...
Rosemary Crompton, Clare Lyonette
This paper critically examines two strands within contemporary gender essentialism--that is, the argument that men and women are fundamentally different and that it is this 'difference' that explains the continuing social and material differences between the sexes. The first strand we examine is Hak...
Saffron Karlsen, James Nazroo, Kwame McKenzie, Kamaldeep Bhui et al.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between risk of psychosis, common mental disorder (CMD) and indicators of racism among ethnic minority groups in England and how this relationship may vary by particular ethnic groups. METHOD: A multivariate analysis was carried out o...
Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb
Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration MapIntroductionI. The Family and the CourseIntroductionOne Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India Susan S. WadleyAllah Gives Both Boys and Girls Patricia Jeffery and Roger JefferyOut Here in Kathman...
AKM Ahsan Ullah
Rohingya refugees from the Arakan state of Myanmar found their ways a number of times to Bangladesh to escape state-sponsored persecution. While there is no dearth of studies on refugees, Rohingya has so far received very little research attention. This article tries to understand the dynamics and s...
Tahir Abbas, Tariq Modood
* Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Foreword - Professor Tariq Modood, * PART I FROM ISLAM TO BRITISH MUSLIMS? * 1. British South Asian Muslims: State and Multicultural Society - Tahir Abbas * 2. Muslims in the UK - Ceri Peach * 3. Muslims in Britain: Issues, Policy and Practice - Muhammad ...
Gina Buijs
Contents: G. Buijs, Introduction - S.L. Skar, The Gendered Dynamics of Quechua Colonisation: Relations of Centre and Periphery in Peru - M. Eastmond, Reconstructing Life: Chilean Women Refugees and the Dilemmas of Exile - D. Abdulrahim, Defining Gender in Exile: Palestinian Women in West Berlin - H....
Naila Kabeer
Lending programmes for women have attracted a growing following in international development circles because they appear to hold out the promise of combining poverty reduction objectives with the goal of empowering women. \n \nIn Bangladesh, however, the country in which many of these progra...
Hanna Papanek
Women adapt in different ways to the demands of their husbands' occupations. In the United States, the "two-person single career" is a special combination of roles whereby wives are inducted by the institutions employing their husbands into a pattern of vicarious achievement. The two-person career p...