TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating mobility in gendered spaces
T2 - case of Pakistani women doctors
AU - Masood, Ayesha
N1 - Funding Information:
The research for article was supported by grants from American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and Arizona State University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Through their gendered spatial practices, women in Pakistan re-negotiate and contest the multiple social and material restrictions in their daily mobility to reclaim the urban transit spaces, specifically, roads. Ethnographic research on the automobile use and driving with the women doctors in Lahore, Pakistan reveal the relationship between these strategic practices and the educational and occupational choices of women. These spatially embedded, intentional practices of women doctors, contingent on their social and economic positions, are directly linked to the emerging gendered identities and changing social and material gendered boundaries in Pakistani society. Moreover, these changing spaces are part of on-going flux of shifting power relations between traditional patriarchy and capitalism.
AB - Through their gendered spatial practices, women in Pakistan re-negotiate and contest the multiple social and material restrictions in their daily mobility to reclaim the urban transit spaces, specifically, roads. Ethnographic research on the automobile use and driving with the women doctors in Lahore, Pakistan reveal the relationship between these strategic practices and the educational and occupational choices of women. These spatially embedded, intentional practices of women doctors, contingent on their social and economic positions, are directly linked to the emerging gendered identities and changing social and material gendered boundaries in Pakistani society. Moreover, these changing spaces are part of on-going flux of shifting power relations between traditional patriarchy and capitalism.
KW - Driving
KW - Pakistan
KW - mobility
KW - transport
KW - urban geography
KW - women doctors
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U2 - 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1418736
DO - 10.1080/0966369X.2017.1418736
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85039737787
SN - 0966-369X
VL - 25
SP - 188
EP - 206
JO - Gender, Place, and Culture
JF - Gender, Place, and Culture
IS - 2
ER -