Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India

This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this q...

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Main Authors:	Sanyal, Paromita, Rao, Vijayendra, Majumdar, Shruti
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2015
Subjects:	SANITATION EMPOWERMENT WOMEN LEADERS BENEFIT SOCIAL NORMS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS VILLAGES GENDER INEQUALITY FORMAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE HOUSE KINSHIP RELIGION OLD AGE ABUSE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN LAWS CULTURAL SYSTEMS PARTNER CULTURAL PRACTICES SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS PUBLIC SERVICES INEQUALITIES RITUAL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS SANCTIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS FEMININITY SUBSIDY SYMBOLS TOWNS CORRUPTION WILL SOCIAL SCIENCES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SOCIAL GROUPS OLD-AGE PENSION CULTURE PUBLIC HEALTH HOME LITERACY KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL IMPACT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRAINING IDENTITY RITUALS WIDOW POOR FAMILIES WIVES PUBLIC SUPPORT MARGINALIZATION MATERIAL RESOURCES SEXUALITY POLITICAL POWER HEALTH CENTERS DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE MIGRATION MODERNIZATION PARTICIPATION IN DECISION GENDER NORMS COMMUNITY RESOURCE PERSONS ANTHROPOLOGISTS COERCION JAIL LAND OWNERSHIP MARRIAGE CULTURAL CHANGE VICIOUS CYCLE PUBLIC SPHERE HISTORY SOCIAL CLASSES MIGRANTS CIVILIZATION SUBSIDIES STATUS OF WOMEN HUMAN BEINGS SOCIOLOGISTS RESPECT PROGRESS WOMANHOOD SMALL LOANS ANTHROPOLOGY HOUSEWIVES MIGRANT SOCIAL INEQUALITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOOD SECURITY DAILY LIFE LABOR LAWS GENDER DIFFERENCES NURSE WOMAN FAMILY POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS POWER GENDER HOMES WIDOWS SPATIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ACTION PUBLIC DEBATE MANDATES ENHANCING WOMEN NUTRITION STORIES POPULATIONS ILLITERATE WOMEN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK WORKSHOPS MASCULINITY POLICY PEER PRESSURE SOCIETIES HUSBANDS NUMBER OF WOMEN POLICE OFFICER SEX SOCIOLOGY CHILDREN FEMALES HUSBAND WARS LIBERTY HOUSEHOLDS CAPITALISM EQUALITY SELF-SUFFICIENCY POPULATION LAW GIRLS HOUSES LIVING CONDITIONS SOCIETY POLICY RESEARCH NORMS POLITICAL PROCESS SOCIAL CHANGE HOUSEHOLD WORK FAMILIES WOMEN LABOR MARKETS GENDER ROLES WIFE WEDDING SOCIAL PROCESSES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION PEACE DISTRICTS ALLIANCES BENEFITS GENDER EQUALITY PATRIARCHY DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY
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spelling	okr-10986-226672021-04-23T14:04:10Z Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India Sanyal, Paromita Rao, Vijayendra Majumdar, Shruti SANITATION EMPOWERMENT WOMEN LEADERS BENEFIT SOCIAL NORMS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS VILLAGES GENDER INEQUALITY FORMAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE HOUSE KINSHIP RELIGION OLD AGE ABUSE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN LAWS CULTURAL SYSTEMS PARTNER CULTURAL PRACTICES SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS PUBLIC SERVICES INEQUALITIES RITUAL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS SANCTIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS FEMININITY SUBSIDY SYMBOLS TOWNS CORRUPTION WILL SOCIAL SCIENCES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SOCIAL GROUPS OLD-AGE PENSION CULTURE PUBLIC HEALTH HOME LITERACY KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL IMPACT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRAINING IDENTITY RITUALS WIDOW POOR FAMILIES WIVES PUBLIC SUPPORT MARGINALIZATION MATERIAL RESOURCES SEXUALITY POLITICAL POWER HEALTH CENTERS DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE MIGRATION MODERNIZATION PARTICIPATION IN DECISION GENDER NORMS COMMUNITY RESOURCE PERSONS ANTHROPOLOGISTS COERCION JAIL LAND OWNERSHIP MARRIAGE CULTURAL CHANGE VICIOUS CYCLE PUBLIC SPHERE HISTORY SOCIAL CLASSES MIGRANTS CIVILIZATION SUBSIDIES STATUS OF WOMEN HUMAN BEINGS SOCIOLOGISTS RESPECT PROGRESS WOMANHOOD SMALL LOANS ANTHROPOLOGY HOUSEWIVES MIGRANT SOCIAL INEQUALITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOOD SECURITY DAILY LIFE LABOR LAWS GENDER DIFFERENCES NURSE WOMAN FAMILY POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS POWER GENDER HOMES WIDOWS SPATIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ACTION PUBLIC DEBATE MANDATES ENHANCING WOMEN NUTRITION STORIES POPULATIONS ILLITERATE WOMEN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK WORKSHOPS MASCULINITY POLICY PEER PRESSURE SOCIETIES HUSBANDS NUMBER OF WOMEN POLICE OFFICER SEX SOCIOLOGY CHILDREN FEMALES HUSBAND WARS LIBERTY HOUSEHOLDS CAPITALISM EQUALITY SELF-SUFFICIENCY POPULATION LAW GIRLS HOUSES LIVING CONDITIONS SOCIETY POLICY RESEARCH NORMS POLITICAL PROCESS SOCIAL CHANGE HOUSEHOLD WORK FAMILIES WOMEN LABOR MARKETS GENDER ROLES WIFE WEDDING SOCIAL PROCESSES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION PEACE DISTRICTS ALLIANCES BENEFITS GENDER EQUALITY PATRIARCHY DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cultural configurations” by giving economically and socially disadvantaged women access to a well-defined network of people and new systems of knowledge, which changed women’s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender. 2015-09-23T20:11:14Z 2015-09-23T20:11:14Z 2015-09 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25049204/recasting-culture-undo-gender-sociological-analysis-jeevika-rural-bihar-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22667 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7411 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
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topic	SANITATION EMPOWERMENT WOMEN LEADERS BENEFIT SOCIAL NORMS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS VILLAGES GENDER INEQUALITY FORMAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE HOUSE KINSHIP RELIGION OLD AGE ABUSE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN LAWS CULTURAL SYSTEMS PARTNER CULTURAL PRACTICES SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS PUBLIC SERVICES INEQUALITIES RITUAL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS SANCTIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS FEMININITY SUBSIDY SYMBOLS TOWNS CORRUPTION WILL SOCIAL SCIENCES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SOCIAL GROUPS OLD-AGE PENSION CULTURE PUBLIC HEALTH HOME LITERACY KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL IMPACT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRAINING IDENTITY RITUALS WIDOW POOR FAMILIES WIVES PUBLIC SUPPORT MARGINALIZATION MATERIAL RESOURCES SEXUALITY POLITICAL POWER HEALTH CENTERS DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE MIGRATION MODERNIZATION PARTICIPATION IN DECISION GENDER NORMS COMMUNITY RESOURCE PERSONS ANTHROPOLOGISTS COERCION JAIL LAND OWNERSHIP MARRIAGE CULTURAL CHANGE VICIOUS CYCLE PUBLIC SPHERE HISTORY SOCIAL CLASSES MIGRANTS CIVILIZATION SUBSIDIES STATUS OF WOMEN HUMAN BEINGS SOCIOLOGISTS RESPECT PROGRESS WOMANHOOD SMALL LOANS ANTHROPOLOGY HOUSEWIVES MIGRANT SOCIAL INEQUALITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOOD SECURITY DAILY LIFE LABOR LAWS GENDER DIFFERENCES NURSE WOMAN FAMILY POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS POWER GENDER HOMES WIDOWS SPATIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ACTION PUBLIC DEBATE MANDATES ENHANCING WOMEN NUTRITION STORIES POPULATIONS ILLITERATE WOMEN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK WORKSHOPS MASCULINITY POLICY PEER PRESSURE SOCIETIES HUSBANDS NUMBER OF WOMEN POLICE OFFICER SEX SOCIOLOGY CHILDREN FEMALES HUSBAND WARS LIBERTY HOUSEHOLDS CAPITALISM EQUALITY SELF-SUFFICIENCY POPULATION LAW GIRLS HOUSES LIVING CONDITIONS SOCIETY POLICY RESEARCH NORMS POLITICAL PROCESS SOCIAL CHANGE HOUSEHOLD WORK FAMILIES WOMEN LABOR MARKETS GENDER ROLES WIFE WEDDING SOCIAL PROCESSES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION PEACE DISTRICTS ALLIANCES BENEFITS GENDER EQUALITY PATRIARCHY DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY
spellingShingle	SANITATION EMPOWERMENT WOMEN LEADERS BENEFIT SOCIAL NORMS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTIONS VILLAGES GENDER INEQUALITY FORMAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE HOUSE KINSHIP RELIGION OLD AGE ABUSE EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN LAWS CULTURAL SYSTEMS PARTNER CULTURAL PRACTICES SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS PUBLIC SERVICES INEQUALITIES RITUAL FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS SANCTIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS FEMININITY SUBSIDY SYMBOLS TOWNS CORRUPTION WILL SOCIAL SCIENCES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION SOCIAL GROUPS OLD-AGE PENSION CULTURE PUBLIC HEALTH HOME LITERACY KNOWLEDGE SOCIAL IMPACT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRAINING IDENTITY RITUALS WIDOW POOR FAMILIES WIVES PUBLIC SUPPORT MARGINALIZATION MATERIAL RESOURCES SEXUALITY POLITICAL POWER HEALTH CENTERS DEMOCRACY DISCOURSE MIGRATION MODERNIZATION PARTICIPATION IN DECISION GENDER NORMS COMMUNITY RESOURCE PERSONS ANTHROPOLOGISTS COERCION JAIL LAND OWNERSHIP MARRIAGE CULTURAL CHANGE VICIOUS CYCLE PUBLIC SPHERE HISTORY SOCIAL CLASSES MIGRANTS CIVILIZATION SUBSIDIES STATUS OF WOMEN HUMAN BEINGS SOCIOLOGISTS RESPECT PROGRESS WOMANHOOD SMALL LOANS ANTHROPOLOGY HOUSEWIVES MIGRANT SOCIAL INEQUALITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOOD SECURITY DAILY LIFE LABOR LAWS GENDER DIFFERENCES NURSE WOMAN FAMILY POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS POWER GENDER HOMES WIDOWS SPATIAL MOBILITY SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SOCIAL ACTION PUBLIC DEBATE MANDATES ENHANCING WOMEN NUTRITION STORIES POPULATIONS ILLITERATE WOMEN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK WORKSHOPS MASCULINITY POLICY PEER PRESSURE SOCIETIES HUSBANDS NUMBER OF WOMEN POLICE OFFICER SEX SOCIOLOGY CHILDREN FEMALES HUSBAND WARS LIBERTY HOUSEHOLDS CAPITALISM EQUALITY SELF-SUFFICIENCY POPULATION LAW GIRLS HOUSES LIVING CONDITIONS SOCIETY POLICY RESEARCH NORMS POLITICAL PROCESS SOCIAL CHANGE HOUSEHOLD WORK FAMILIES WOMEN LABOR MARKETS GENDER ROLES WIFE WEDDING SOCIAL PROCESSES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION PEACE DISTRICTS ALLIANCES BENEFITS GENDER EQUALITY PATRIARCHY DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY Sanyal, Paromita Rao, Vijayendra Majumdar, Shruti Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7411
description	This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cultural configurations” by giving economically and socially disadvantaged women access to a well-defined network of people and new systems of knowledge, which changed women’s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender.
format	Working Paper
author	Sanyal, Paromita Rao, Vijayendra Majumdar, Shruti
author_facet	Sanyal, Paromita Rao, Vijayendra Majumdar, Shruti
author_sort	Sanyal, Paromita
title	Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
title_short	Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
title_full	Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
title_fullStr	Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
title_full_unstemmed	Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India
title_sort	recasting culture to undo gender : a sociological analysis of jeevika in rural bihar, india
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2015
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25049204/recasting-culture-undo-gender-sociological-analysis-jeevika-rural-bihar-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22667
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Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India

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