Between Affiliation and Autonomy: Navigating Pathways of Women's Empowerment and Gender Justice in Rural Bangladesh

Development and Change

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 499-528

  Kabeer, Naila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; EMPOWERMENT; FEMINISM; GENDER ISSUE; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOMENS STATUS;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

BANGLADESH; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONTROL POLICIES; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 79954594762     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01703.x     Document Type: Article

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