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This excerpt speaks to the gendered limitations on women’s mobility in the dark and the implications for women waste pickers’ safety in navigating public spaces. Respondents’ narratives pertaining to social wellbeing at the domestic, neighbourhood, and societal levels reveal the extent to which unequal relations of gender, caste, and class mediate everyday experiences and access to urban spaces inside and outside of waste work and the protective role that social networks play in mediating some of these struggles. Confidence in navigating public spaces and forms of formal and informal collectivizing are two benefits frequently associated with women’s work outside of the home (Kabeer, 2008, Mahmud and Tasneem, 2014). However, as respondents’ social infrastructures of work are often closely tied to actors and ‘cooperative’ strategies in the home and community, these strategies “necessarily embody relationships of power, domination, and subordination” and are stratified in particular “by gender and generation” with the impact of stifling the voices of women who experience subordination within marginalization (e.g. widows and young daughters-in-law) (Wolf, 2011, p.p. 145 & 137–8; Gilbert, 2000, Kabeer, 1994). ...
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