In Dialogue: Professor Naila Kabeer and Professor Sabina Rashid on gender equity in Bangladesh
Professor Naila Kabeer and Professor Sabina Rashid, two very highly distinguished scholars in their respective fields within global development studies, gender relations and social transformation. In this episode of In Dialogue they are joined by Professor Hilary Standing to discuss gender relations in Bangladesh.
Naila’s book, Renegotiating patriarchy: gender agency and the Bangladesh paradox, is a work which goes back over 40 years of her experience of working, living and studying social relations and gender relations in Bangladesh. Sabina’s book, Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh, Children of Crows is the result of her 25 years of in-depth research and engagement with urban slum settlements, and how gender and poverty intersect and compromise women’s health and well-being.
They’re both about patriarchy in the broader structural sense. But they cover different time frames, different contexts and they come from different disciplinary perspectives. This podcast episode is a conversation about the way these books complement each other, what some of their differences are about and what does this mean for thinking about gender relations in Bangladesh?
