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Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India : Recasting culture to undo gender : a sociological analysis of Jeevika in rural Bihar, India (English)

This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cultural...
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Sanyal,Paromita; Rao,Vijayendra; Majumdar,Shruti.

Recasting Culture to Undo Gender : A Sociological Analysis of Jeevika in Rural Bihar, India : Recasting culture to undo gender : a sociological analysis of Jeevika in rural Bihar, India (English). Policy research working paper|no. WPS 7411 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346831467995637047

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