"My Honor Will Be Erased": Working-Class Women, Purchasing Power, and the Perils of Modernity in Urban Nepal.

Urbanization, the expansion of capitalist markets, and the rapid democratization of the political sphere have precipitated enormous shifts in Nepal's social organization, including how women from diverse caste and ethnic backgrounds participate in the newly monetized economy as laborers and consumer...

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Publicado en:	Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 485 - 508
Autor principal:	Grossman-Thompson, Barbara
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	University of Chicago Press Winter2017
Materias:	Nepal Working class women Women's wages Women Consumption (Economics) Social conditions of women Purchasing power Women consumers
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