Transcending Work–Life Tensions: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of Work and Gender in the Middle East, North Africa, and India

Autor:	Suzy D'Enbeau, Astrid M. Villamil, Rose Helens-Hart
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Intersectionality Pride Middle East Communication media_common.quotation_subject Work–life balance Gender studies Transnational feminism Complementarity (physics) Gender Studies Globalization Organizational communication Sociology Social science media_common
Zdroj:	Women's Studies in Communication. 38:273-294
ISSN:	2152-999X 0749-1409
DOI:	10.1080/07491409.2015.1062838
Popis:	Extant research has considered how professional women negotiate the contradictory demands of work and gender. However, these contradictions may be exacerbated for women from and living in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA), and India, as globalization has circulated Western discourses of gender equality that appear to conflict with non-Western discourses of gender difference. To better understand this potential conflict, we conducted a transnational feminist analysis that explored how discourses about work and gender created tensions for young women as they articulated their professional ideals. Three tensions surfaced in our analysis of interviews with women from the MENA region and India: (a) equality–difference, (b) modernity–tradition, and (c) individual–collective. To transcend these tensions, participants emphasized gender complementarity, professional and familial success, and their cultural pride. Taken together, these transcendence strategies indicate how gendered performances in the public sph...
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