Sidney Ruth Schuler, Sohela Nazneen
Studies addressing the relationship between women's empowerment and intimate partner violence (IPV) have yielded conflicting findings. Some suggest that women’s economic and social empowerment is associated with an increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV), arguably because men use often IPV...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Rachel Lenzi, Shamsul Huda Badal, Sohela Nazneen
Intimate partner violence (IPV) may increase as women in patriarchal societies become empowered, implicitly or explicitly challenging prevailing gender norms. Prior evidence suggests an inverse U-shaped relationship between women's empowerment and IPV, in which violence against women first increases...
Sidney Ruth Schuler, Rachel Lenzi, Sohela Nazneen, Lisa M. Bates
The Bangladesh government, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and advocacy groups have attempted various interventions to promote gender equality and reduce intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, but rigorous evaluations of these interventions are rare and few published studies have yet ...
Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan
Sohela Nazneen, Sakiba Tasneem
The system of reserved seats with direct elections to local government bodies has been in place for women since 1997. This article investigates how perceptions have changed about the role of women representatives in local government. By exploring the accounts of women's views, experiences and how th...
Sohela Nazneen, Naomi Hossain, Deepta Chopra
Questions of women's power remain a matter of heated debate globally, but take on a heightened intensity in a South Asia featuring rapid economic growth and structural transformation in recent decades. This Special Issue aims to improve understanding of how the women of South Asia are gaining and ex...
Sohela Nazneen, Naomi Hossain, Maheen Sultan
Summary As Bangladesh turns 40, improvements in women's wellbeing and increased agency are claimed to be some of the most significant gains in the post‐independence era. Various economic and social development indicators show that in the last 20 years, Bangladesh, a poor, Muslim‐majority country in ...
Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan
* Introduction: Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transitional Contexts * Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan * 1. Well-Chosen Compromises? Feminists Legitimizing Voice in Bangladesh * Sohela Nazneen and Maheen Sultan * 2. Feminisms in Brazil: Voicing and Channelling Women's Diverse Demands * Cecil...
Sohela Nazneen, Akosua K. Darkwah, Maheen Sultan
Mirza Hassan, Sohela Nazneen
We explore the dynamics of the elite political settlement in Bangladesh after the democratic transition in 1991 and its impact on the elite interactions in the arena of competitive electoral democracy. We trace the history of how a political settlement around regime succession developed in the mid-1...
Andréa Cornwall, Jenny Edwards
* Introduction: Negotiating Empowerment * Andrea Cornwall and Jenny Edwards * 1.Legal Reform, Women's Empowerment and Social Change: The Case of Egypt * Mulki Al-Sharmani * 2.Quotas: A Pathway of Political Empowerment? * Ana Alice Alcantara Costa * 3. Advancing Women's Empowerment or Rolling Back th...
Sohela Nazneen, Simeen Mahmud
Sohela Nazneen, Maheen Sultan
By focusing on three different national level women's organisations in Bangladesh, this article looks at how the movements have used different strategies to become an effective voice for women's interests and empowerment at civil society and state levels. The importance of framing their issues in a ...
Srila Roy
* Foreword by Shirin M. Rai * Introduction: paradoxes and possibilities - Srila Roy * 1 Sex workers' rights and women's movements in India: a very brief genealogy - Svati P. Shah * 2 AASHA's approach to instituting sexual harassment legislation in Pakistan - Sadaf Ahmad * 3 Family law organizations ...
Sohela Nazneen, Sam Hickey
The book concludes with a comparative analysis that draws out (1) what the cases tell us about advancing transformative policies in countries with different kinds of political settlement; (2) the value added by the ‘power domains’ framework employed here in comparison with existing frameworks for fe...