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In this chapter we shall examine in detail the changing views of women in an urban community towards the role and status assigned to them by the traditional social organisation. Such a change in their views, largely centering around the male-female relationship on the one hand, and the female-society relationship on the other, is far more noticeable, as could be expected, among the younger women than in the older. We shall identify changes in such views of urban women of two generations.
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Karl Mannheim, Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1952). See the section on “The Problem of Generations”, pp. 282–90.
A. H. Somjee, The Democratic Process in a Developing Society ( London: Macmillan, 1979 ).
Ester Boserup, Women’s Role in Economic Development ( New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1970 ).
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Promila Kapur, The Changing Status of Working Women in India (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House, 1974) p. viii.
David Pocock, Kanbi and Patidar: A Study of a Patidar Community of Gujarat ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972 ) p. 156.
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Somjee, G. (1989). Urban Women: The Two Generations. In: Narrowing the Gender Gap. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19644-9_2
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