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Women, Poverty and Ideology in Asia

Contradictory Pressures, Uneasy Resolutions

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. Haleh Afshar

    1. Department of Politics, University of York, UK

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  2. Bina Agarwal

    1. Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Haleh Afshar, Bina Agarwal
    Pages 1-15

  3. Purdah and Poverty in Pakistan

    • Farida Shaheed
    Pages 17-42

  4. Women in the Work and Poverty Trap in Iran

    • Haleh Afshar
    Pages 43-69

  5. Women, Land and Ideology in India

    • Bina Agarwal
    Pages 70-98

  6. Petty Trading and the Ideology of Gender Segregation in Urban South India

    • Johanna Lessinger
    Pages 99-127

  7. The Ideology of Femininity and Women’s Work in a Fishing Community of South India

    • Kalpana Ram
    Pages 128-147

  8. Internal Colonisation and the Fate of Female Divers in Cheju Island, South Korea

    • Hae-Joang Cho
    Pages 148-177

  9. Women’s Work, Male Domination and Controls over Income among Plantation Workers in Sri Lanka

    • Rachel Kurian
    Pages 178-195

  10. Export-Oriented Industries and Women Workers in Sri Lanka

    • Kumudhini Rosa
    Pages 196-211

  11. Poverty, Ideology and Women Export Factory Workers in South-East Asia

    • Gillian H. C. Foo, Linda Y. C. Lim
    Pages 212-233

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 235-242
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This book examines the contradictions between the prevailing ideologies and cultural practices and the economic interests of women in poor households in Asia. Here the primacy of economic needs necessitates that all members of the household, women, men and children engage in income generating employment; yet at the same time prevailing ideologies often impose restrictions on women's work. Thus caught in the poverty trap they face conflicting choices between survival needs and social acceptability. This collection of essays demonstrate the differing or complementary roles played by different agents such as the State, private employers, religious groups, the community and the family and their effects on the lives of impoverished women in India, Pakistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. The degree of complementarity or contradiction varies according to country, class, caste and ethnicity. What is of interest, however, is the way they are manifested and in whose interest they are resolved.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics, University of York, UK

    Haleh Afshar

  • Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India

    Bina Agarwal

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