Browsing by Subject "Marriage"
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Being with the ‘Other’: inter-religious marriages in Bangladesh
(BRAC Univeristy, 2016-08)Inter-religious marriage is one of the rarest research topics seen in Bangladesh till today. However, „rare research‟ does not mean that such marriages are not taking place. In Bangladesh, inter-religious marriage is ... -
Information technology: marriage between it and social business-grameen intel social business ltd.
Aiming to reduce infant mortality, improve the mother’s health, and help Bangladeshi rural farmers improve agricultural production, Grameen Intel Social Business Limited was formed in 2009 by Grameen Trust and Intel – ... -
Insight into decision of marriage by late teens and early-twenties women in Dhaka middle class: their agency, respectability and role of external factors
(BRAC University, 2018)Women in the 21st century have made an insurmountable amount of progress in terms of education, employment, decision making power and overall autonomy over themselves. In the context of Bangladesh where this paper is ... -
Marital mobility in the Bangladeshi middle class: matchmaking strategies and transnational networks
(© 2014 Taylor & Francis Online, 2014-09-24)In this paper, I take marriage as the point of entry for exploring social alliances amongst an affluent cluster of the Bangladeshi middle class. Using semi-structured interviews, biographies, family histories, intergenerational ... -
Muslim marriage and divorce: recounting married women’s quest for individual sovereignty in literary and legal arenas of Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2018-08)Marriage has been considered as one of the most ancient and important social institutions in human history. The benefits that marriage provides are undeniable, yet in most of the cases, it imposes restrictions and bindings ... -
Prevailing non-normativities: exploring gender norms, transgressive desires and identities in literature by Muslim women writers of the subcontinent
(BRAC University, 2014-08-14)Prevailing Non-Normativities: Exploring Gender Norms, Transgressive Desires and Identities in Literature by Muslim Women Writers of the Subcontinent is an exploration of essentialist gender norms, transgressive desires, ... -
Prevalence and correlates of the risk of Sexual violence within marriage in Bangladesh
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division (RED), 1997)Sexual violence against women has never been new in history. What is new is to discover that this kind of act is wrong and has direct impact on women's health. Using data from a nationally representative sample of 500 ...
