The Study of Gender in India

Purkayastha, Bandana; Subramaniam, Mangala; Desai, Manisha; Bose, Sunita

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“…These norms of have gendered implications and serve to limit women's autonomy of action as they are considered an 'outsider' in the marital family -at least in the initial years following marriageand the lack of proximity to effective support networks serves to limit women's options in case of marital violence. Women's subordinate status in her marital household also brings benefits to the husband (and his family) that include domestic labour and material advantages from any paid work (Kandiyoti, 1988), and is reinforced through coercive control and domestic violence for perceived violations of gender norms (Purkayastha et al, 2003). Dowry is widely regarded as one of the main structures through which domestic violence is perpetrated (Ahmed-Ghosh, 2004;Rastogi & Therly, 2006).…”

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Gender, Migration, and Exclusionary Citizenship Regimes: Conceptualizing Transnational Abandonment of Wives as a Form of Violence Against Women

Anitha

Roy

Yalamarty

2017

Violence Against Women

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Based on life history narratives of 57 women in India and interviews with 21 practitioners, we document the neglect, abuse, and instrumental deprivation of women's rights through the process of transnational abandonment. While gendered local sociocultural milieus and economic norms contribute to these harms, they are crucially enabled and sustained by transnational formal-legal frameworks. Widening the explanatory lens for understanding domestic violence beyond the family and community, we argue that in a globalized world, (inter)state policies serve to construct these women as a subordinate category of citizens-"disposable women"-who can be abused and abandoned with impunity.

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Gender, Migration, and Exclusionary Citizenship Regimes: Conceptualizing Transnational Abandonment of Wives as a Form of Violence Against Women

Anitha

Roy

Yalamarty

2017

Violence Against Women

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“…Dowry has long been outlawed and has borne considerable anti-dowry social movement attention (Purkayastha et al 2003). Researchers have highlighted dowry as a contributor to outcomes such as imbalanced sex ratios in India (Attané and Guilmoto 2007;Dyson 2012:446) and various forms of domestic violence (Rao 1997).…”

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Disease and Dowry: Community Context, Gender, and Adult Health in India

Stroope¹

2016

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Despite growing research on health and residential contexts, relatively little is understood about gendered contexts that are differentially important for women's and men's physical health in low-and middle-income countries. This study advances prior knowledge by examining whether the local frequency of a salient and gendered practice in India-dowry-is associated with gender differences in physical health (acute illness, illness length, and chronic illness). Analyses are conducted using multilevel logistic and negative binomial regression models and national data on men and women across India (N = 102,763). Results show that as dowry frequency increases in communities, not only do women have a greater likelihood of poor health across all three health outcomes, but men also have a greater likelihood of acute illness and illness length.Men, however, have lower likelihood of chronic illness as the frequency of dowry increases in communities. In the case of all three health outcomes, results showed consistently wider health gaps between men and women in communities with higher frequency of dowry. 5The dowry system is one such geographically patterned gendered practice, and community support for dowry practice may substantially contribute to gender-based health gaps across India. Prior research and theory suggest that the effects of dowry extend beyond dowrypracticing households; local prevalence of dowry can affect gendered exposure to an array of stressors and unequal resource allocations throughout a community, and these exposures are patterned by gender. Although dowry exchange has received considerable attention due to its growth, illegality, and links to various negative outcomes for women (Acharya, Sabarwal, and Jejeebhoy 2012;Basu 2001;Bloch and Rao 2002; Kumari 1989;Rocca et al. 2009), its consequences for adult physical health have not been documented. In this study, I contribute to literatures on gender and health, communities and health, social status and health, and geographic contexts in India. I do so by using national multilevel data from India (N = 102,763) to examine relationships between the community prevalence of a salient gendered practicedowry exchange-and gender differences in adult health. Importantly, I incorporate an array of controls for gender discrimination and SES to help isolate the community-level effects of dowry practice. Background and Hypotheses

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“…Dowry arrangements influence violence even after the marriage ceremony through the threat of domestic violence as a “bargaining instrument” to extract additional dowry payments from a bride's family (Rao and Bloch ; Purkayastha et al. ).…”

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Village Tolerance of Abuse, Women's Status, and the Ecology of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Uttar Pradesh, India

Mogford

Lyons²

2014

The Sociological Quarterly

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We explore the multilevel determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women in rural Uttar Pradesh, India. We focus on village tolerance of abuse and its ability to regulate the effects of individual and village-level women's status and social capital. Using individual and village data from the 1998 to 1999 India National Family Health Survey, we find that village tolerance and women's status at individual and village levels help explain the risk of IPV. Village tolerance of abuse also moderates the ability of village-level women's status and social capital to protect women from IPV. Results underscore the need to understand processes that sustain and/or challenge violence-legitimating norms.Intimate partner violence (IPV), and in particular wife abuse by husbands, is a human rights and public health concern throughout the world. A multi-country study by the World Health Organization estimates the lifetime prevalence of domestic violence against women to vary from 15 to 71 percent in 15 sites across 10 countries (Garcia-Moreno et al. 2005). IPV in South Asia has received special attention because of both its prevalence and severity (Segal 1999;Ahmed-Ghosh 2004;Sharma 2005). Various studies report prevalence of IPV in India in the 40-percent range (Kumar et al. 2005;Kishor and Gupta 2009). With a lifetime prevalence of 41.4 percent, according to the most recent National Family Health Survey, the central and most populous state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) has one of the highest rates of IPV in India (Kishor and Gupta 2009).A growing community of researchers from multiple disciplines is working to better understand the dynamics of IPV against women. Much research focuses on individual and household determinants, especially women's status, a multidimensional concept that includes factors such as education, women's employment, permission to leave the home, decision making, and control over resources (

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The Study of Gender in India

Cited by 74 publications

References 15 publications

Gender, Migration, and Exclusionary Citizenship Regimes: Conceptualizing Transnational Abandonment of Wives as a Form of Violence Against Women

Gender, Migration, and Exclusionary Citizenship Regimes: Conceptualizing Transnational Abandonment of Wives as a Form of Violence Against Women

Disease and Dowry: Community Context, Gender, and Adult Health in India

Village Tolerance of Abuse, Women's Status, and the Ecology of Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Uttar Pradesh, India

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