Naila Kabeer
Mridula Udayagiri, Naila Kabeer
In this path breaking study, social economist Naila Kabeer examines the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers to shed light on the question of what constitutes fair competition in international trade. She argues that if the unhealthy coalition of multinationals and labour movements is truly seeking t...
Naila Kabeer
* Foreword - John Gaventa * INTRODUCTION * 1. The search for inclusive citizenship: Meanings and expressions in an interconnected world.- Naila Kabeer * CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS * 2. Towards an actor-oriented Perspective on human rights - Celestine Nyamu-Musembi * 3. The emergence of human rights in t...
Naila Kabeer
Inasmuch as women's subordinate status is a product of the patriarchal structures of constraint that prevail in specific contexts, pathways of women's empowerment are likely to be "path dependent." They will be shaped by women's struggles to act on the constraints that prevail in their societies, as...
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...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud
Abstract Economic liberalization in Bangladesh has led to the emergence of a number of export‐oriented industries, of which the manufacture of ready‐made garments is the most prominent. The industry currently employs around 1.5 million workers, the overwhelming majority of whom are women. This paper...
Naila Kabeer
This paper challenges the idea that a “social clause” to enforce global labor standards through international trade agreements serves the interests of women export workers in poor countries. Drawing on fieldwork in Bangladesh and empirical studies, the author argues that exploitative as these jobs a...
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...
V. Spike Peterson
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I am grateful to Georgina Waylen for her generosity in sharing prepublication work with me; and to Drucilla Barker, Jen Cohen, Deb Figart, Ellen Mutari, Julie Nelson, Paulette Olsen and Ara Wilson for conference discussions reg...
Naila Kabeer
Struggles for gender justice by women's movements have sought to give legal recognition to gender equality at both national and international levels. However, such society-wide goals may have little resonance in the lives of individual men and women in contexts where a culture of individual rights i...
Naila Kabeer
This paper sets out to explore economic pathways to women’s empowerment and active citizenship in Bangladesh, a country where the denial of economic resources to women, and their resulting status as lifelong dependents on men, has long been seen as foundational to their subordinate status. While emp...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Sakiba Tasneem
The debate about the relationship between paid work and women’s position \nwithin the family and society is a long standing one. Some argue that women’s \nintegration into the market is the key to their empowerment while others offer \nmore sceptical, often pessimistic, accounts of this ...
Naila Kabeer
Abstract Highly aggregated measures of poverty overlook inequalities in the distribution of poverty among sub‐groups of the poor. This article focuses on gender differentials in the distribution of poverty, using a conceptual framework of basic needs and resource entitlements to distinguish between ...
Naila Kabeer, Simeen Mahmud, Jairo Guillermo Isaza Castro
Recent research in Bangladesh highlights an interesting paradox: impressive development outcomes combined with extremely poor quality of governance. The country’s active development NGO sector has been credited with some of the more positive development achievements. The question that this paper set...
Naila Kabeer
This chapter examines the complex interactions between religion and culture in constructing definitions of national identity in Bangladesh and in shaping the political projects of recent regimes. It also attempts to throw light on certain features which differentiate current Islamisation processes i...