WOMEN’S PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACES IN BANGLADESH: QUESTION OF COLLECTIVE MOBILIZATION AND RESISTANCE

M.G.  Murtaza; F.  Farzana

doi:10.53808/KUS.2001.3.1.0131-ss

Authors

M.G. Murtaza Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh
F. Farzana Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Khulna-9208, Bangladesh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53808/KUS.2001.3.1.0131-ss

Keywords:

Public space, Private space. Reproductive ages. Religious values, and Collective mobilization. Resistance

Abstract

In Bangladesh, women are being discriminated in terms of access to health, shelter, clothing, employment, education, assets and other necessities of life. This has some definite and direct spatial manifestations in terms of uses of private and public spaces. Moreover, the women do not demand for their required spaces both at private and public lives. The present article discusses the constitutional provisions of spaces for the women, the existing system of availability of private and public spaces for women, arising problems due to absence or non-availability of such spaces, and, collective efforts of the women required to realize their rights of using of spaces, and how collectively they can be mobilized to address these problems.

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