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Title: Poor and dark, what is my future?: identity construction and adolescent women in Bangladesh
Author/Creator: Rozario, Santi
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
Description: The claim that women in South Asia, including Bangladesh, are subordinate to men is hardly a new one. Yet our understanding of the intricate mechanisms that maintain the unequal power structure between men and women is still limited. In this chapter, I shall focus on a dimension largely ignored in previous studies of South Asian women: appearance and more particularly skin colour, and its role in identity formation.
Relation: Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality p. 42-57
Relation: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Studies in Asian Topics Series 30
Relation: http://www.routledgeasianstudies.com/books/Coming-of-Age-in-South-and-Southeast-Asia-isbn9780700714001
Date: 2002
Publisher: Curzon Press
Keyword(s): women; adolescence; Bangaldesh; South Asia; identity formation; skin colour
Resource Type: book chapter
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35176
Identifier: ISBN:0700713999

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