scholarly journals Grandmother, Mother and Daughter: Changing agency of Indian, middle-class women, 1908–2008

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 601-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE WALDROP
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
Cultural Ideologies ◽  
Mother And Daughter ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
The Impact

AbstractCovering one hundred years, this paper recounts the life stories of three generations of middle-class women of the New Delhi-based Kapoor family. By taking the methodological view that individuals born approximately at the same time, within the same class segment, and at the same cultural place will be shaped by the same historical structures so that their lives to some extent are synchronized into a gendered, generational experience, these three life stories are viewed as voices that reflect their respective generational class segments. In view of this, the paper uses the three life stories to discuss changes in women's agency within the urban, educated, upper middle-class. Agency is here understood as control over resources, and it is argued that in order to understand changes in women's agency, one should take into account the impact of both social, economic structures and cultural ideologies. When analysing the three life stories, the overall finding is that the granddaughter has had more control over her own life than her mother and grandmother. However, by acknowledging that cultural ideologies and social economic structures are not always synchronized, a nuanced and many-dimensional picture of twists and turns in these middle-class women's degree and type of agency over time emerges.

scholarly journals From academic heritage to Aboriginal priorities

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Barbara Glowczewski
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
The Impact

Throughout my 34 years of involvement with aboriginal people across australia, I have regularly chosen to respond to aboriginal priorities against a certain academic heritage, illustrated by the refusal of some colleagues – in France or Australia – to recognise the importance of women’s agency in the society, the impact of history on aboriginal ritual life and cosmology, the continuity of their culture in new forms of creativity, the respect of ethical protocols, the discrimination and social injustice suffered by indigenous people and the legitimacy of their political struggles. 

scholarly journals The impact of women’s agency and autonomy on their decision-making capacity in Nuevo Leon, Mexico

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
Jeyle Ortiz Rodríguez ◽  
Vijayan K. Pillai ◽  
Manuel Ribeiro Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Nuevo Leon ◽  
Decision Making Capacity ◽  
Nuevo León ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
The Impact

Book review: Bidyut Mohanty, Lakshmi the Rebel: Culture, Economy and Women’s Agency

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-333
Author(s):  
Sachidananda Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
New Delhi ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Women’S Agency

Bidyut Mohanty, Lakshmi the Rebel: Culture, Economy and Women’s Agency. New Delhi, Har Anand Publications, India, 2019, 168 pp., ₹595. ISBN 978–93–88409–29–2

scholarly journals The Impact of Autonomy on Women’s Agency

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeyle Ortiz-Rodríguez ◽  
Vijayan K. Pillai ◽  
Manuel Ribeiro-Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Life Choices ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Women’S Autonomy ◽  
Women's Autonomy ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

Kabeer’s simple and illustrative definition of empowerment is “the expansion in people’s ability to make strategic life choices in a context where this ability was previously denied to them” (Kabeer, 1999: 437). Women’s empowerment, then, is conceptualized as an increase in agency over time. Little is it known about the importance of the effect of ‘self directed motivations and desires’ and autonomy on women’s agency. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationships among women’s autonomy and labor force participation along with their effects on women’s agency in Nuevo Leon, Mexico. For this, we use the structural equation modeling approach. Our results reveal that women’s autonomy and participation in the labor market positively influence their agency levels.   

scholarly journals Identifying the Barriers to Women's Agency in Domestic Violence: The Tensions between Women's Personal Experiences and Systemic Responses

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Aldridge
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Women Victims ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
The Impact

Despite advances in knowledge and understanding about the impacts of domestic violence on women's lives, global research on violence against women shows there is a need for research that not only places women centre stage in research praxis, but also that involves them more collaboratively in genuine dialogue about their experiences, including their agentic stances. This is especially the case for marginalised and socially excluded women victims of domestic violence, such as those who are not known or do not present to services and who survive abusive relationships alone or with little outside support. Evidence from two studies reported here—secondary analysis of women with severe and enduring mental health problems and a collaborative narrative project with unsupported women victims of domestic violence—suggest that women's capacity for agency are compromised by a number of critical factors, and that these are also reflected in the tensions between micro–macro analyses and understanding of the impact of domestic violence on women. This article considers the barriers to women's agency from the women's perspective and in the context of broader, systemic dynamics, including the denial or obscuring of abuse by governments and states and the consequences of stringent fiscal retrenchment that put women at increased risk of domestic violence.

Part VI Constitutional Theory, C Key Debates in Constitutional Theory, Ch.45 Feminist Constitutionalism in Canada

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baines Beverley ◽  
Rubio-Marin Ruth
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Women's Agency ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Equality Rights ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Women’S Agency ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the Canadian Constitution through feminist lenses. It proposes a feminist framework to evaluate constitutional law. Feminist constitutionalism aims to promote women’s agency and to protect their rights fully. Feminist constitutionalism examines women’s agency in constitutional law. It also examines critically the interpretation of traditional rights, the impact of constitutionally structured diversity, and the approach to equality rights. Feminist constitutionalism pays attention to the constitutional protection of women’s reproductive rights and sexual autonomy (domains of autonomy neglected by classical constitutionalism); it also aims to ensure women’s equal rights within the family, and to promote women’s socioeconomic development and democratic rights. This chapter develops the idea of feminist constitutionalism and uses this framework to evaluate critically some aspects of Canadian women’s constitutional experience.

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