Browsing by Subject "Patriarchy"
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The contested relationship between paid work and women’s empowerment: Empirical analysis from Bangladesh
(Springer Link, 2018-04-01)The debate about the empowerment potential of women’s access to labour market opportunities is a long-standing one but it has taken on fresh lease of life with the increased feminization of paid work in the context of ... -
Diverging stories of son preference in South Asia: a comparison of India and Bangladesh
(BRAC University, 2012-11)In Bangladesh, overall sex ratio has declined from 109.6 (males/females) in the 1950s to 100.3 in 2011. Unlike countries with female deficits, the improvement in sex ratio has extended to the under‐5 age group. This has ... -
Fallen” to new women: reflection on the social condition of women in light of modernist expression in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Kate Chopin
(Brac University, 2022-01)The main focus of my thesis is that I want to analyze the situation and the position of women in the society of late 19th and early 20th century in light of modernist expression and how the then society shaped women’s lives ... -
Literature as a liberating space for 19th century women: a close reading of the selected works of Christina Rossetti, Emily Bronte and Kate Chopin
(Brac University, 2019-12)This thesis fundamentally aims to look at the question of the potency of literature as a space through which women can assert their existence. Literature has been used as a force for social reformation and has been used ... -
Sensitizing communities to eliminate discrimination and violence against women: An assessment of Brac’s intervention
(BRAC Research and Evaluation Division, 2012-06)The project titled "Sensitizing communities on CEDAW" was a part of the Gender Quality Action Learning (GQAL) program implemented in Gazipur to sensitize people about CEDAW to prevent violence against women and sexual ... -
Sexual politics and rape in the selected works of Shashi Deshpande: a feminist Perspective
(Brac University, 2019-12)Since the early revolutionary period of the first wave of feminist movement in India in 1850, women have come a long way with the feminist liberation movements continuously striving to bring in reformation in various ... -
Tracing the footprints of digital aggression: an ethnographic journey into cyber harassment against female activists in Bangladesh
(Brac University, 2023-10)In the last few years, the utilization of social media by public figures, social advocates, and content creators has increased significantly, particularly in addressing social justice, including gender equality, human ... -
Women, power of collectivity and magical realism in Allende and Kurniawan’s novels: an answer to patriarchal subjectivity
(Brac University, 2021-09)This thesis demonstrates the subjectivity illustrated by the patriarchal society and counteracted by women for equity and true democracy. With a close reading of the novels The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende and ...
