scholarly journals The ‘Changing Status’ of Women w.r.t. Gentrified Urban Spaces of Mumbai

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Dr. Deepali Bhide

Reinforcement of inequality and rise in human conflict across society, culture, political economy and gender relations is a characteristic feature of globalisation which is an apparent process of development. This inequality becomes more evident in a globalising city like Mumbai because the capitalist expansion within Mumbai has been defragmented and worrisome. Girangaon in Mumbai (spread over E, F and G wards within MCGM- Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai) is a case reflecting a similar inconsistency because this is a core area which has been undergoing so called urban renewal since the closure of cotton textile mills since 1980s. More livelihood opportunities in Mumbai have been created in the informal tertiary sector as compared to the formal traditional occupations. Urban poverty, income disparities and deprivations are issues which remain unaddressed.  Women who are an important part of the urban economy and who remain behind the veils when it comes to assessment and calculation of real income are not left behind from this brunt. The present paper therefore is an attempt to understand the participation and contribution of women in Mumbai’s economy. It also tries to study whether there has been any change in the socio-economic status of women from Girangaon especially with two important processes- closure of mills and the initiation of gentrification. For this purpose a questionnaire survey was conducted in Girangaon and the collected data has been analysed qualitatively to understand the dynamics of capital and gender relations.

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Gabriela Castellanos Llanos

Resumen: Se exploran las concepciones de géneroen la santería o regla de Ocha una religión que tieneconsecuencias culturales muy importantes en Cuba tantodesde el punto de vista étnico y racial como para lasrelaciones de género. Este trabajo analiza algunas deestas consecuencias, planteando sus implicaciones parala identidad racial afrocubana, centrándose en lascaracterísticas del sistema de género que está implícitoen las creencias y en los rituales de la santería. El trabajobosqueja las características principales de la santería yalgunos aspectos de su posible efecto en el racismo enCuba, antes de examinar el estatus de las mujeres enesta religión. Se refuta la afirmación de una investigadorade que en la sociedad yoruba tradicional no existe elconcepto de mujer como inferior que es típico delpatriarcado occidental, o de otra de que la santeríacubana es una religión de base femenina, donde lofemenino es normativo. Sin embargo, se concluye quelas concepciones occidentales de la división radical delos dos sexos en dos entidades totalmente rígidas y biendelimitadas, están ausentes en la santería.Palabras clave: religiones afro-cubanas, santería,identidad, raza, géneroAbstract: This article explores the conceptions ofgender in santería or Regla de Ocha, a religion whichhas important cultural consequences in Cuba both forracial and gender relations. It analyzes some of theseconsequences for Afro-Cuban racial identity and focuseson the gender system implicit in beliefs and rituals in  santería. The text portrays the major characteristics of santería and some of its possible effects on racism in Cuba, before examining the status of women in this religion. It refutes the claim by one researcher that in traditional Yoruba society there is no concept of women as inferior as found in Western patriarchy, and that of another researcher that Cuban santería is a femalebased religion, where femininity is normative. However, it is concluded that Western conceptions of the radical split of the sexes in two rigid and well-defined entities are absent in santería.Key words: Afro-Cuban religions, santería, identity,race, gender


2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 292-302
Author(s):  
Sher Muhammad ◽  
Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti ◽  
Muhammad Waris Awan

This paper studies the economic status of Women legislators through data from their assets submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan from 2002-2013. The findings indicate that strong financial status is an important pre-requisite for successful entry into the politics. This study found that the majority of elected women belong to an elite class. It is also evident that the common Pakistani woman is still miles away from the corridors of power because she does not have sufficient economic resources to participate in politics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-112
Author(s):  
Whitney Walton

This article examines Arvède Barine’s extensive and popular published output from the 1880s to 1908, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France. It asserts that in the process of criticizing contemporary feminist activists and celebrating the achievements of women, especially French women, in history, she constructed the historical and cultural distinctiveness of French women as an ideal blend of femininity, accomplishment, and independence. This notion of the French singularity, indeed the superiority of French women, resolved the contradiction between her condemnation of feminism as a transformation of gender relations and her support for causes and reforms that enabled women to lead intellectually and emotionally fulfilling lives. Barine’s work offers another example of the varied ways that women in Third Republic France engaged with public debates about women and gender.


2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 689-692
Author(s):  
Gheorghe Raftu ◽  
Elena-Claudia Sin ◽  
Aureliana Caraiane ◽  
Steliana Gabriela Bustiuc ◽  
Raluca Briceag

The study aims at identifying and highlighting dental anxiety in a group of young adults, analyzing patients� concerns about the main dental treatment procedures, and establishing statistical relationships between anxiety and gender, the background, level of education, socio-economic status and knowledge of habits of care and hygiene of oral cavity characteristic of the studied group. The study group consists of 150 female (50%) and male (50%) patients , aged between 20 and 40 years. The inclusion criteria in the batch were those related to the age range of 20 to 40 years.Two respondents (Corah�s Dental Anxiety Scale, Revised (DAS-R)) were given two questionnaires ( Corah�s Dental Anxiety Scale, DAS-R), and the second questionnaire contained 7 questions about the habits dental care). Most patients� concerns about the main procedures of dental treatment / other concerns are: dental extraction, material expenses, possibility of treatments and shame she felt oppressed health of the oral cavity. Regardless of the level of dental anxiety, the oral cavity hygiene habits are not properly performed by patients, with an increased tendency for them to be disregarded by patients with severe dental anxiety.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alayne J. Ormerod ◽  
Angela K. Lawson ◽  
Carra S. Sims ◽  
Maric C. Lytell ◽  
Partick L. Wadington

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