Upward and outward mobility: Women’s aspirations for their daughters in urban india
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2021
Journal / Book Title
Advances in Gender Research
Abstract
Using the case of women home-based workers in India and the aspirations they have for their children, this chapter argues that aspirations across generations can reveal constraints and conflicts of current social positions. As workers in the informal economy, women’s work experiences are shaped by a matrix of oppression shaped by gender, class, caste, and religion. Yet, resistance to this work only became apparent when discussing hopes for their children’s future. It was in these articulations of aspirations that women stressed the exploitative characteristics of their work and their wish for their children to avoid these same experiences.
DOI
10.1108/S1529-212620210000030002
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
85107871550 (Scopus)
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Boeri, Natascia, "Upward and outward mobility: Women’s aspirations for their daughters in urban india" (2021). Bloomfield College of Montclair State University Scholarship and Creative Works. 9.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/bloomfield_facpubs/9