Ithaca College

Bhavani Arabandi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Review of Women’s Studies, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). EPW is one of India’s foremost interdisciplinary journals with an international reputation.

Dr. Arabandi’s article titled, “Globalizations, Mobility and Agency: Understanding Women’s Lives Through Women’s Voices,” demonstrates how feminist researchers integrate macrostructural processes with everyday micropolitics by locating women's lives at the centre of the research process. Data from this research demonstrate that changing attitudes towards women's education, "good" jobs, and productive work lives help women establish a social position from which they use their agency to successfully negotiate when and whom they will marry, continue to work after marriage, voice opinions against dowry, and navigate their position within and outside the household. Without investigating how gender norms have changed over time and what working in globalised workplaces means to women, it would be easy to miss the change in women's lives and repeat the familiar refrain of exploitation of women in the global South. 

See more at: http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/18