Resistance Against Seclusion: Women, Work, and Patriarchy in Bangladesh

Abstract

This paper examines the concept of “work” in ideological and methodological terms, particular as it applies to women in Third World countries. The discussion is grounded in a detailed case study of Tarapur village in Bangladesh. Despite the cultural practice of seclusion, women are increasingly becoming involved in field agriculture and wage labor due to the deterioration of the general socio-economic conditions and poverty in the county. The article relates their struggles and experience to work in the context of “tradition” and their new roles in the domestic as well as the local labor market.

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