Changing Role of Indian Woman: A Glimpse into Two Bollywood Movies English – Vinglish and Queen

CLEaR ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Mahuya Bhaumik
Keyword(s):  
Indian Society ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
The Status ◽  
Multiple Issues ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Interesting Area

Abstract Bollywood, being one of the biggest film industries of India, is an interesting area of research to understand the socio-cultural perspectives of today’s India. My paper will focus on the changing role of Indian woman. It will argue if the change is merely superficial or the Indian woman has been successful to negotiate with and challenge the patriarchal social structure. These multiple issues will be discussed with special reference to two of the latest Bollywood movies, namely, English-Vinglish and Queen. The focus on these two movies is because both concentrate on emancipation of woman. Sashi, the central character of English-Vinglish, despite facing all kinds of humiliation in her own family and finally learning English (her inability to speak in English being one of the primary reasons for her being ridiculed in her family) comes back to her family at the end. Queen showcases a different kind of emancipation where Rani, the leading lady of the movie, being dumped by her fiancé, decides to go for her honeymoon trip all by herself and recognises herself anew. These two movies are examples of the changing role of woman who does not need a male to rescue her from danger or to console her in her tears. She is a self-sufficient woman who does not forget her roots. Both the movies generate thought-provoking questions about the status of woman in present India and can be employed as lenses to see through the multiple layers of the gendered Indian society.

Waking ourselves up! Re-examining the role of OD practitioners – a challenger perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-187
Author(s):  
Clare Southall
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Paper ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Many ◽  
Changing Role

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the changing role of OD practitioners. Given the many significant challenges faced by organisations and their leaders, never has the role of OD been more important; it is vital that OD practitioners are able to identify the paradigm shift that is required if they are to provide the relevant challenge and support that organisations and leaders need. Design/methodology/approach – The OD role is explored through the Challenger pattern of behaviour known as Witnessing the Establishment – the ability, and the willingness, to see things as they really are, not as we wish them to be. The authors are often so much a part of the organisational system ourselves that the underpinning assumptions, beliefs, routines and rituals that exist are so transparent we can not see them for what they are. Findings – This paper focuses on one of the six patterns of behaviour identified in Challenger leaders in the book “Challenger Spirit: Organisations that disturb the status quo” by Khurshed Dehnugara and Claire Genkai Breeze, LID Publishing, 2011. Research limitations/implications – This is not an academic paper but instead a consultant/practitioner perspective grounded in day-to-day work with leaders and OD professionals in client organisations. Originality/value – A number of suggestions are given for applying the perspectives discussed, through a series of questions, diagnostic processes and models. These are directly applicable to OD practitioners themselves and can also form the basis of further conversations with the leaders and colleagues.

Symbolic Accoutrements of Power: Appropriation of Culture within the British Managerial Elite

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Warde
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Significant Degree ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Cultural Participation ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Number Of Individuals ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Cultural Attachment

AbstractThis paper arises from a study examining cultural participation, knowledge and taste across the British population. The study includes in-depth interviews with a small number of individuals occupying prestigious positions in British business, politics and administration. A managerial elite, they exhibit a significant degree of homogeneity of cultural attachment and invest heavily in participation in many cultural activities. Their pattern of cultural consumption is described in terms of three principles: plenitude, proficiency and capability. This paper focuses on a number of mechanisms of acculturation, which are identified and illustrated. Differences associated with social trajectory are emphasised. The everyday routine nature of intensive and selective cultural consumption for this section of the population is noted and it is shown how culture is embedded in social life through social connections. Implications for the status and changing character of legitimate culture are considered, leading to reflections on the demise of the British “Establishment” and the changing role of culture in elite formation.

scholarly journals The role of bushmeat in a West African agricultural landscape

Oryx ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justine Shanti Alexander ◽  
James McNamara ◽  
J. Marcus Rowcliffe ◽  
James Oppong ◽  
E.J. Milner-Gulland
Keyword(s):  
Rural Economy ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
The Status ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Bushmeat Hunting

AbstractThere is little information on the changing role of bushmeat hunting in the agricultural areas of West Africa. We assessed the status and role of bushmeat hunting and rural consumption in three communities in Ghana, through household surveys (n = 250), and interviews with hunters (n = 69), eatery owners (n = 18) and bushmeat traders (n = 3). Hunting was embedded within dynamic livelihood strategies, with two broad categories of hunters identified: a large group who targeted pests on their own farms using traps, and a smaller group of professional hunters. The professional hunters included a group of young men who hunted with dogs, and another group of older firearm hunters who tended to be members of Hunters’ Associations. All professional hunters reported a decline in bushmeat availability and expressed concerns about the viability of hunting as a livelihood. The frequency of consumption of bushmeat increased with distance from the region's main urban centre, Kumasi, but bushmeat was not found to be a major component of the diet in any of the villages. Few men self-identified as hunters, although bushmeat hunting continued to play an important role in the rural economy, primarily for crop protection. Conservation efforts need to consider the full spectrum of hunting behaviours. Specific measures should target forest-based hunters, who are more likely to damage forest ecosystems than crop pest hunters but also show more concern for the sustainability of hunting, and commitment to hunting as an institution.

Discovering the Changes in Gendering of Products: Case of Woman in ‘Bikerni Community’ in India

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-194
Author(s):  
Varsha Jain ◽  
Kriti Bharadwaj ◽  
Amrita Bansal ◽  
Vivek S Natarajan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Projective Techniques ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Depth Interviews

In the Indian society, gender roles have played an important role in shaping the culture. However, due to technological advancements and change in societal needs, there is an evolution in the gender roles. This evolution has created a need to understand the gendered products from a new perspective. Therefore, this paper tries to discover the factors of consumption of gendered products and role of social media in shaping the consumption pattern and motivation of women in biking industry in India. Subsequently, to address the objectives, qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews, netnography and projective techniques are applied and data is analyzed further. With the help of data analysis, it has been found that that Indian woman is motivated by a quest for freedom, independence and empowerment. The families and close-knit communities that they are part of, such as Bikerni Association of India, help them participate in a hyper-masculine product market.

scholarly journals Perspectives of accounting students and teachers on the changing role of management accountants in organisations

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-162
Author(s):  
C C Shuttleworth
Keyword(s):  
Management Accounting ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Changing Practice ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Management Accountants ◽  
The Status ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Changing Role

Owing to a highly competitive global market, economic crises and changes in manufacturing and information technology, organisations are compelled to improve their financial planning and control functions. These and other changes have contributed to the evolving role of the management accounting function in organisations. Whereas cost accounting’s main focus was on finding the cost of manufacturing products, the objective of management accounting is to use financial and non-financial information to assist management with decision making. Although management accountants have long played multiple roles in organisations, there is a definite shift towards a more strategic approach, opening up new vistas of opportunity. However, this widening scope of the changing practice of management accounting demonstrates a lack of a recognisable and coherent occupational identity. The objective of this study was to determine whether prospective accounting students and accounting teachers are aware of the changing role and status of management accountants. This study presents the results of a survey among fi rst-year accounting students as well as interviews with accounting teachers to assess their perceptions of the current role of management accountants in organisations. This study exposes a lack of knowledge of the status of management accountants and their strategic role in organisations. Recommendations are made for tertiary institutions to alleviate this information gap and for further research on this issue.

scholarly journals KETU MYTHS AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN: A Structural Interpretation

1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Babatunde
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Structural Interpretation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Complete Independence ◽  
The Status ◽  
Market Women ◽  
Interesting Area ◽  
Status Of Women

Modern literature on the status of Yoruba women of South Western Nigeria has corrected the view that Yoruba women were suppressed, by throwing into relief areas of their prominence. B. Awe has drawn attention to the prominent part women like Iyalode played in traditional Yoruba politics (1977, 1979). J.A. Atanda (1979) and S.O. Babayemi (1979) have stressed the significant roles of women in the palace organization of Oyo. N. Sudarka (1973) and Karanja (1980) have explored the interesting area of Yoruba market women, showing that the economic strength which such economic enterprises confer made Yoruba women not only prominent but independent. Karanja, on the other hand, accepted that although economic enterprise brought a considerable measure of strength and prominence to the Yoruba woman, her relationship with her husband may not be interpreted as one marked with complete independence. In drawing attention to the role of women as mothers and as occupiers of the innermost and sacrosanct space within Yoruba domains, H. Callaway has demonstrated the importance of Yoruba women to central features of Yoruba society (1978). In this present work I discuss some Yoruba myths in order to throw into relief the prominence of women.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Politics and Poetics of Home: A Study of Manju Kapur’s Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-28
Author(s):  
Adwitiya Gope ◽  
Dr. Gyanabati Khuraijam
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Separate Identity ◽  
Traditional Norms ◽  
Traditional Roles

The territory of the home is not only regarded in terms of physical space but also in terms of human affection and influence. The status of women within the social structure of their families and/or communities is paralleled as well as informed by their position in the physical structure of their houses and homes. An Indian woman is yet to seek an identity as a human being with equal status in the family in which she is born and in the family to which she is given in marriage. This research attempts to make a study of Manju Kapur’s novel Home to reveal many issues deeply rooted within a family and explore the dynamics of relationships that prevail in an Indian home. Nisha, the protagonist in the novel, tries to subvert age-old traditional norms and values of her home, which is symbolic of Indian society in microcosm, that threatens to subvert her existence as an individual. Manju Kapur’s women contest and defend their domestic territories because they are contesting not only for power, but for their self-esteem, identity and individuality.  The home obviously is a gendered living space of an everyday life, and that young Indian women are not accepting traditional roles conferred by ‘home’ onto them passively; instead, they seem to be (re)traditionaliszing their strategies of housework and childcare responsibilities.  Through this paper we wish to highlight that change in the traditional roles played by women in homes reproduces dynamics of politics of home thereby enhancing dynamics of poetics of home. The study of politics and poetics of home further analyses how the relationship between women and men as well as ideas about masculinity and femininity are shaped by the intersection of tradition and modernity. The study explores a dialogue between tradition and modernity with an aim to project yearning for autonomy and separate identity. Kapur poignantly shows the evolution of an Indian woman in the midst of the repressive patriarchal structure of an Indian home.

scholarly journals Potret Kepimpinan Wanita dalam Wajah Seorang Wanita dari Perspektif Pendekatan Pengurusan

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-294
Author(s):  
Sara Beden ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Japanese Occupation ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Of Women

Women have many advantages and important roles in the family institution. Nowadays, many women are involved in various professions including entrepreneurship, corporate positions and leadership. Therefore, this article aims to analyse the fundamentals of women’s leadership as the head and manager of the family—roles traditionally reserved for men. This study applies the principles of leadership in the Management Approach on S. Othman Kelantan’s novel, Wajah Seorang Wanita. Library research and qualitative methods were applied in this study. The analysis shows that three out of the four dimensions of leadership principles apply, namely, the administrative, economic and educational dimensions. This is depicted through the novel’s main character, Siti Musalmah, who has to manage and lead her family after the death of her beloved husband. This study also seeks to unveil the role of women and thus elevate the status of women as heads of families despite having to face great challenges as single mothers. As a result, the Management Approach, using principles of leadership, allows a clarification and analysis of the principles of management practiced by women in caring for the well-being of their familis. Wajah Seorang Wanita is a portrayal of the leadership of a woman during the time of the Japanese Occupation.

The Urban Indian Woman and Her Family

1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 476-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wynne Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Role Transitions ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Urban Indian ◽  
Case Vignettes ◽  
Internal Forces

Changing circumstances have created a demand for more active participation of Indian women in all phases of Indian life. Indian women are experiencing often difficult role transitions as they move from the role of homemaker to breadwinner. Case vignettes illustrate the external and internal forces affecting these changes.

Patriarchal Features in Post-Independence Indian English Novels

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Kalpana Nehere
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Traditional Structure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Power Property ◽  
Status Of Women

Feminist analyses of novels can give insights about women’s life in contemporary society. Fifteen Indian novels written after independence by women and men novelists have been reviewed to understand the role of patriarchy with feminist approach. These novels depict patriarchy as symbolic power, property rights, essence of father, husband and child, urge for son, women’s activities for the sake of husband, etc. Hierarchal stratified caste base Indian social structure supports patriarchy as notion. Characters, setting or situations, dialogues, point of view, etc. in these selected novels show unequal, secondary and exploited status of women in Indian society. Women blindly follow patriarchal rules and traditional structure with rituals. Therefore, justice, liberty, equality and fraternity given in Constitution of India are yet to be achieved for women. Only few characters are rebellious for their constitutional rights and came out of home at workplaces but as ‘hands of gold’. The findings and analysis of the study are useful to understand the status of women in Indian society for planning and management to achieve constitutional provisions for social welfare.

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