Will to power: Revaluating (female) empowerment in ‘fitspiration’

Daudi, Aurélien

doi:10.1080/17511321.2023.2182350

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 49 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In Bangladesh, more women work outside homesteads (Islam 1987;Shand 1986) [23,56] . However, the concept of female empowerment can be complex and has been associated with self-worth and economic sufficiency in certain contexts (Daudi, 2023) [15] . Besides, Espinosa Damián (2018) [16] stated that women are considered day laborers who are contracting for short periods and experiencing power imbalances in their employment relationships.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female day laborers and empowerment: A study on some selected rural areas in Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh

Sony,

Rifat

2024

Int. J. Sociol. Humanit.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigates the complex dynamics shaping the empowerment trajectories of female day laborers in rural areas of Bangladesh, as well as examining the engagement motivations, outcomes, and persistance challenges of the involvement. This study is conducted through a mixed-methods approach, and data was collected from 137 respondents through surveys and case studies in Bajitpur Municipality, Kishoreganj District. The findings reveal economic necessity and family responsibilities as the primary motivators compelling women into insecure informal labor. While day labor participation enabled some positive gains in income, confidence, mobility, and domestic decision-making, most women continued to face multidimensional difficulties, including income instability, violence, unpaid burdens, stigma, and harassment. The study reveals significant post-labor increases in financial independence (From 8.7% to 94.8%), household decision power (12.4% to 78.8%), and self-efficacy (24% to 90.5%), which overall indicate that female day laborers are being empowered after engaging the day labor works. However, over one-third still grapple with income instability, while 68.7% encounter social stigma and 72.7% experience harassment, signaling continuing disempowerment despite modest legal knowledge gains. The research points out that in the absence of greater systemic change, the inclusion of labor force is a necessary but inadequate condition for poor female day laborers in the absence of greater systemic changes and the inclusion of labor force for the transformation of alignment. It deeply demands integrated legal, economic, and infrastructure, with the cooperation of stakeholders in an ecosystem that supports rural female day laborers in all cases and helps the empowerment process in all spheres. Overall, the goal of this study is to explore the progress and the scenarios of the conditional empowerment of marginalized women workers, as well as the complex reality and continued obstacles, to inform the appropriate involvement in eliminating discrimination in their daily socio-economic progress on the basis of their self-demanding and living experiences.

show abstract

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female day laborers and empowerment: A study on some selected rural areas in Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh

Sony,

Rifat

2024

Int. J. Sociol. Humanit.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

‘Ecce Ego’: Apollo, Dionysus, and Performative Social Media

Daudi

2023

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Digital Sociology and Digital Working Class Studies: New Concepts

YILMAZ

2023

Sosyal Bilimler Akademi Dergisi

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The study primarily addressed the phenomenon of "digital humanities", which emerged because of the increasing interest of the humanities in the relationship between digitalization and society. With the shift of digitalization and sociology's interests and subjects to the digital field, "digital sociology" has become possible to talk about as a sub-discipline. Digital labour studies, on the other hand, are generally built on discussions of digital labour. However, in the study, the idea that digital sociology and digital labour studies have many common interests is suggested. The main purpose of the study is to define the phenomenon of digital sociology as a sub-discipline of digital humanities and to create a dialogue between digital sociology and digital labour studies. To achieve this goal, process analysis based on secondary source data is used methodically. Neoliberal fatigue, insecurity of will, fear of missing out, absenteeism, presentism, unemployed growth, Kaizen, cyber hedonism, digital nomadism, cyber Balkanization and non-cooperation were determined as the concepts to be examined in this review process. The work is divided into three titles. Under the first title, the concepts of digital humanities, digital sociology and digital labour studies were discussed. After this discussion, a critical position was determined. The second part of the study is devoted to the examination of the aforementioned concepts. In the third and last part of the study, a general evaluation of the study was made, and suggestions were made to the researchers in the field.

show abstract

Will to power: Revaluating (female) empowerment in ‘fitspiration’

Cited by 3 publications

References 49 publications

Female day laborers and empowerment: A study on some selected rural areas in Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh

Female day laborers and empowerment: A study on some selected rural areas in Kishoreganj District, Bangladesh

‘Ecce Ego’: Apollo, Dionysus, and Performative Social Media

Digital Sociology and Digital Working Class Studies: New Concepts

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About