Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox
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Short impact summary
Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox (2024), published by LSE Press, has been cited 31 times — enough that OpenAlex puts it in the top 1% of works in its field and year. Beyond that, it has been downloaded 5,593 times and is used in teaching.
Full narrative
Renegotiating Patriarchy: Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox by Naila Kabeer was published by LSE Press in 2024. Conceptually, the work connects to Patriarchy, Agency (philosophy), Gender studies, Sociology and Political science. The book was recognised: ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Political Science.
OpenAlex records 31 citations. That places it in the top 1% of works in its field and year of publication. Citations peaked in 2026 with 16 citing works. Notable citing venues include Gender & Development, Cambridge University Press eBooks and Gender Work and Organization. The citing works include 25 journal articles, 2 books and 2 book chapters. They come from 16 countries, led by the United Kingdom, Bangladesh and the United States.
In teaching, it is discussed in 3 recorded lectures. It is discussed on Bluesky (1 mention). It has been downloaded 5,593 times via Google Books and OAPEN. A further 1 mention appear in other attention signals. Its subject matter aligns with Gender equality among the Sustainable Development Goals. The work was funded by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Access Availability
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.rpg
- OA status: Gold
- OA source: OAPEN
- OA basis: OAPEN record found for this title
- OA evidence chain: OAPEN → Publisher-claimed → ACLS/Arcadia rule → OpenAlex/Crossref
- OA verification: Claimed OA, not in DOAB
- Landing page: https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.rpg
- OAPEN Library: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93758
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- 🏆 ACLS Open Access Book Prize & Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award finalist (2026) — Political Science
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Analysis of 31 citing works. 45.2% come from the Top 10 institutions. See the full list on OpenAlex →
- North South University (3)
- Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (2)
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (2)
- Florida State University (1)
- University of Essex (1)
- Boston University (1)
- Northwestern University (1)
- University of Jordan (1)
- University of North Texas (1)
- University of London (1)
- World Bank (1)
- University of Kansas (1)
- International Food Policy Research Institute (1)
- Hashemite University (1)
- International Rice Research Institute (1)
- University of Groningen (1)
- Kohat University of Science and Technology (1)
- King's College London (1)
- University of Washington (1)
- Université Paris Cité (1)
- Cornell University (1)
- University of Victoria (1)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (1)
- Nordic Africa Institute (1)
- SOAS University of London (1)
- UNSW Sydney (1)
- Yale University (1)
- Central China Normal University (1)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1)
- Centre Population et Développement (1)
- Northwestern University (1)
- International Center for Tropical Agriculture (1)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (1)
- University College London (1)
- McGill University (1)
- University of Lincoln (1)
- Toronto Metropolitan University (1)
- BRAC University (1)
- International Livestock Research Institute (1)
- Lancaster University (1)
- Nova Ahmed (3)
- Anik Saha (2)
- Ifti Azad Abeer (2)
- Anik Sinha (2)
- Michelle Lokot (1)
- Maya Magarati (1)
- Sharmin Nahar (1)
- Tanzina Choudhury (1)
- Mohammed Shamsul Karim (1)
- Vijayendra Rao (1)
- Lina Qtaishat (1)
- Shruti Majumdar (1)
- Paromita Sanyal (1)
- Shalini Roy (1)
- Albert Livinus Augustinus Hogeterp (1)
- Tasmiah Tahsin Mayeesha (1)
- Eleanor Fisher (1)
- Syeda Shabnam Khan (1)
- Dorsaf Oueslati (1)
- Claire Willey‐Sthapit (1)
- Carlos Oya (1)
- Apei Song (1)
- Awino Okech (1)
- Kalpana Jha (1)
- Jon Hellin (1)
- Younas Khan (1)
- Dina Najjar (1)
- Taryn P. Lindhorst (1)
- Meghna Ranganathan (1)
- Han van Dijk (1)
- Shamnaz Arifin Mim (1)
- Renee Bullock (1)
- Mélissa Hidrobo (1)
- John Frederick Hoddinott (1)
- Tanaya Dutta Gupta (1)
- Rahat Jahangir Rony (1)
- Md. Sabbir Ahmed (1)
- Elaine Unterhalter (1)
- Philip K. Miriti (1)
- Novera Sultana (1)
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- Status: Explicit peer-review record found
- Peer-review records: 1 (Single-anonymised)
- Publisher context: LSE Press
Online mentions & public discourse Open Web
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Video Lectures & Presentations YouTube Transcripts
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"...Paper explicitly linked in video metadata/description...."AI Academic Confidence: 60%
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RENEGOTIATING PATRIARCHY Gender, Agency and the Bangladesh Paradox by Prof. Naila Kabeer. NSU SHSS Distinguished Webinar Series"...Paper explicitly linked in video metadata/description...."AI Academic Confidence: 80%
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- Naila Kabeer First Corresponding ORCID
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Citations OpenAlex
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Jesus and the Economics of Gender Positions: Revisiting Luke’s Gospel | IntechOpen eBooks | 10.5772/intechopen.1017613 |
| 2026 | Not that kind of feminist: Boundary-making and feminist identity among young feminists in Bangladesh | Sociological Spectrum | 10.1080/02732173.2026.2718890 |
| 2026 | Revolution by Stealth | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781009349109 |
| 2026 | Agentic actions of women science teachers: how do secondary school educators navigate gendered experiences? | International Journal of Science Education | 10.1080/09500693.2026.2693812 |
| 2026 | What Connects?: Reflections on Gender, Education and Cowen’s Historicized Perspectives on the Comparative | European Education | 10.1080/10564934.2026.2694379 |
| 2026 | Empowerment or Dependence? Questioning the Long‐Term Effectiveness of Rural Financial Services in Bangladesh | Sociological Inquiry | 10.1111/soin.70057 |
| 2026 | Weaving the Social Fabric: Qualitative Insights Into Bangladeshi Women's Empowerment and Pathways to Change | Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology | 10.1002/casp.70273 |
| 2026 | The violence of debt: microcredit and intimate partner violence against women in Bangladesh | International Review of Sociology | 10.1080/03906701.2026.2661214 |
| 2026 | ‘Breaking through the cracks and pleasing myself’: employment decisions and meaning-making among women in county-based digital employment in China | Journal of Gender Studies | 10.1080/09589236.2026.2665796 |
| 2026 | “At Least Someone Has My Back”: Service Provider Perceptions of Family Strategies to Address Domestic Violence in Nepal | Journal of Interpersonal Violence | 10.1177/08862605251415406 |
| 2026 | Troubling gender in international development | Third World Quarterly | 10.1080/01436597.2025.2600552 |
| 2026 | From local solidarities to collective voice: women’s cooperatives and grassroots advocacy in Türkiye | Gender & Development | 10.1080/13552074.2026.2625519 |
| 2026 | Revisiting feminist advocacy | Gender & Development | 10.1080/13552074.2026.2647550 |
| 2026 | South Asian Borders: Political Masculinities and the Myth of the Motherland | Unknown | 10.1007/978-981-95-4334-2_3 |
| 2025 | Global China for Africa's Industrialization? | Cambridge University Press eBooks | 10.1017/9781009347679 |
| 2025 | A Design Exploration to Address Breast Cancer A qualitative study considering the context of Bangladesh | Unknown | 10.1145/3768633.3770128 |
| 2025 | How social norms influence processes of change related to an economic intervention in Bangladesh | SSM - Qualitative Research in Health | 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2025.100651 |
| 2025 | Digital empowering positivity: Syrian women's counter-discourse for resistance and healing | Journal of Multicultural Discourses | 10.1080/17447143.2025.2563215 |
| 2025 | Women's Vulnerabilities to Climate Insecurity and Violence: Household‐Level Evidence From Bangladesh | Rural Sociology | 10.1111/ruso.70022 |
| 2025 | Meena Needs a Computer Now: Co-design Solutions to Barriers Using Fictional Inquiry for Women in Computing | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction | 10.1145/3762808 |
| 2025 | How Do Unexpected Networks Help Female Entrepreneurs in the Global South Survive in Adverse Contexts? A Case Study of Bangladesh | Gender Work and Organization | 10.1111/gwao.70030 |
| 2025 | Negotiating for participation in co-management: How women manoeuvre within gender norms and practices in Bangladesh | Women s Studies International Forum | 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103161 |
| 2025 | Women’s limited agency as market actors in a patriarchal marketplace in the context of Rajshahi city | Asian Anthropology | 10.1080/1683478x.2025.2492997 |
| 2025 | Mapping the perceived impacts of a social innovation program on women’s agency and life satisfaction | Frontiers in Sociology | 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1527841 |
| 2025 | She Inherits, She Sells : community-based theatre to strengthen women’s land rights and entrepreneurship | Gender & Development | 10.1080/13552074.2025.2470573 |
| 2025 | A positive deviance approach to understand gender relations and practices that support transformative adaptation: Insights from Kenya dairy households | Current Research in Environmental Sustainability | 10.1016/j.crsust.2025.100280 |
| 2025 | The Thrust to Access Technology among Minoritized Communities: A Study during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh | SSRN Electronic Journal | 10.2139/ssrn.5358904 |
| 2025 | Les solidarités familiales à l’épreuve des transformations environnementales | Anthropologie et Sociétés | 10.7202/1119567ar |
| 2024 | Impact of climate change on women mental health in rural hinterland of Pakistan | Frontiers in Psychiatry | 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1450943 |
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