Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?
dc.contributor.author | Schuler, Sidney Ruth | * |
dc.contributor.author | Hashemi, Syed | * |
dc.contributor.author | Huda Badal, Shamsul | * |
dc.contributor.editor | Eade, Deborah | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-05-24T09:48:19Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2011-05-24T09:48:19Z | en |
dc.date.issued | 1998-05-01 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0961-4524 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09614529853774 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10546/130309 | en |
dc.description | Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit programmes have a varied effect on men's violence against women. They can reduce women's vulnerability to men's violence by strengthening their economic roles and making their lives more public. When women challenge gender norms, however, they sometimes provoke violence in their husbands. Male violence against women is a serious, widespread, and often ignored problem world-wide. By putting resources into women's hands, credit programmes may indirectly exacerbate such violence; but they may also provide a context for intervention. | en |
dc.format.extent | 10 | en |
dc.format.mimetype | en | |
dc.language.iso | English | en |
dc.publisher | Oxfam GB | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.relation.url | http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/mens-violence-against-women-in-rural-bangladesh-undermined-or-exacerbated-by-mi-130309 | |
dc.subject | Approach and methodology | |
dc.subject | Economics | |
dc.subject | Gender | |
dc.title | Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes? | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1364-9213 | en |
dc.identifier.journal | Development in Practice | en |
oxfam.signoff.status | For public use – can be shared outside Oxfam | en |
oxfam.subject.country | Bangladesh | en |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Development methods | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Finance | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Gender-based violence | |
oxfam.subject.keyword | Gender mainstreaming | |
prism.number | 2 | en |
prism.volume | 8 | en |
dc.year.issuedate | 1998 | en |
dc.year.issuedate | 1998 | en |