GENDERING THE NATION AND ENDANGERING GENDER: BANGLADESH NATIONAL REGIMES

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1. INTRODUCTION
2. THE GENDERING OF THE NATION AND THE CONSTITUTION OF WOMEN
3. THE BANGLADESH STATE
4. THE POLITICAL
5. DEVELOPMENT
6. THE PERSONAL AND THE LEGAL
7. RECOMMENDATION AND CONCLUSION

GENDERING THE NATION AND ENDANGERING GENDER: BANGLADESH NATIONAL REGIMES

Author: Amena Mohsin

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/BIISSj2009v30n3a1

ABSTRACT

The paper argues that for women,politics startsat the personal level. Cutting through the binaries of high and low, public and private,the paper examines the process of nation creation with the infusion of rationalist and modernist principles. This in the process marginalised women by placingthem within the private domain,thus excluding themfrom arenas of ‘high’ politics where issues critical to women and their lived lives are decided. Taking Bangladesh as its case in point, the paper examines the various national regimes, the constitution, the political, the economic, the religious, the legal,and examines the contradiction between the apparent and the real. Women’s agencies brought forth through women’s organisations and movements have played a critical role in putting right the discriminationsyet the task is an arduousand long one since the seeds of discrimination are structural. The paper concludes by calling for relocating women by bringing about systemic transformations.

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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