Abstract
My Independent Study investigates how gender roles are maintained through the practices of stereotypical South Asian cultural ideologies in second-generation South Asian immigrant women and their families. I conducted interviews with nine women living in the South Asian diaspora between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, to help me further explore their ideas, opinions, histories, and experiences on concepts such as tradition, modernity, aspects of socialization, marriage, and education. With the data collected, I explore the issue of how these concepts are practiced, intersecting culture, religion, socio-economic class, and familial expectations. I identify several themes throughout the interviews that speak through wanting to voice the fact that cultural ideologies are practiced in different ways depending on the family itself. These themes also help to voice both my personal experiences, as well as the personal experiences of each participant, which will give both me and my readers an insight into making a difference and promoting other to take action against the prevalence of patriarchal problems in the South Asian culture and its society.
Advisor
Craven, Christa
Department
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Recommended Citation
Remtulla, Amrin Alnoor, "A Study of Gender Roles Amongst Second-Generation South Asian Women, Transcending Through Time and Space." (2019). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 8397.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/8397
Disciplines
Gender and Sexuality
Keywords
South Asian women, gender roles, patriarchy, marriage, socialization
Publication Date
2019
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis
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