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Saihjee, Aarti.

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Structures of constraint: Engendering the household, state, and economy in Jharkand, India.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Structures of constraint: Engendering the household, state, and economy in Jharkand, India./
Author:	Saihjee, Aarti.
Description:	357 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3523.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9907621
ISBN:	9780599054325

Structures of constraint: Engendering the household, state, and economy in Jharkand, India.
Saihjee, Aarti.

Structures of constraint: Engendering the household, state, and economy in Jharkand, India. - 357 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3523.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 1998.

This dissertation, through a micro-study of a "tribal" village in the Jharkand region, attempts to understand how "women's work" is being (re)constituted, in both ideological and material terms, in response to the larger socio-economic transformation initiated by India's New Economic Policy (NEP). It is observed that due to a number of extenuating factors, more and more Oraon women are bearing the burden of household survival by entering the labor market (usually in the labor intensive sector of agricultural wage labor, construction work, brick kilns and stone quarries) and fostering an inverse relationship between poverty and dependency on women's waged labor.

ISBN: 9780599054325Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Structures of constraint: Engendering the household, state, and economy in Jharkand, India.
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520 $a At the core of this inquiry lies the exploration of the "household" as a conceptual category for the analysis of gender and gender relations. Taking my cue from feminist anthropologists and material feminists, I argue for the need to engender the discourse on the household and to view it as an unit of asymmetrical rights and obligations which is affected by the overall changing socio-economic structures. The focus is specifically on how cultural and ideological controls (pertaining to notions of families and household, class, ethnicity, and gender) differentially mediate changing economic realities and transform them into concrete life options for different Oraon women: and how these dynamics in turn define the gendered outcomes of intra-household bargaining as well as women's interactions in the labor market.
520 $a It is observed that the professed gender neutrality of the NEP is in actuality, tacitly appropriating women's labor (productive and reproductive) to maintain social reproduction in a volatile economy. Economic vulnerability is defining Oraon women's increased participation in the labor market by re-inventing the familial ideology. The ethnographic data indicates that, it is through the culturally constructed notions of entitlement embedded in gender relations that define women as "mothers" and "wives", that women are gaining legitimacy in the labor market and effectively contesting and manipulating within the households as well. These dynamics are marginalizing women as economic actors and reinforcing their subordination even as they are challenging the traditional patriarchal norms of sexual divisions of labor.
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