Methodology: Interviews
Language: English
Catalysts: Mala Pandurang
Youth Fellows:
Tejaswini Kulkarni
Prachi Shetty
Manjiri Satam
Pooja Subhash Atara
Neha Gillon
Anushri Jagtap
Poonam Naik
Supriya Damani
Maithilee Pawashe
Coordinator:
Aditya Pant
About the Subject:
This group led by their lecturer focused on understanding the nature of dress codes for young women. Their study offered the unique perspective of looking at the young woman in diverse settings – her home, her peer group and the college campus.
Challenges & Learnings:
The group comprised of undergraduate girls, and they sought to examine the pressures that they addressed within each setting with respect to the ostensibly intensely personal question of personal appearance. The group closely evaluated the question of “appropriateness” by interviewing the perceived sources of these “rules” like family members.
Conclusion:
The group uncovered practices that young females employ to negotiate, and even subvert dress codes that filtered down vertically – through formal channels of the family and college guidelines, and also horizontally – through peers with concomitant pressures of the need to fit in.
End Product:
Through posters and a website, the students presented their findings.
