Appropriating Gender (eBook, PDF)

Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia
Redaktion: Jeffery, Patricia; Basu, Amrita

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also asserted their gender, class, caste, and religious identities; contrary to the hopes of nation states, they have often challenged state policies and practices. Through a comparative South Asia perspective, Appropriating Gender explores the varied meanings and expressions of gender identity through time, by location, and according to political context.

The first work to focus on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context, Appropriating Gender is an outstanding contribution to the field of gender studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136051500
• Artikelnr.: 38255165

Autorenporträt

Patricia Jeffery is a sociologist with a distinguished record in the field of reproduction. Amrita Basu is a political scientist known for her research on fundamentalism in South Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Gender
Nation
State; Chapter 1 Appropriating Gender
Amrita Basu; Chapter 2 Reproducing the Legitimate Community
Ritu Menon; Chapter 3 (Re)presenting Islam
Feldman Shelley; Chapter 4 The Outsider(s) Within
Rouse Shahnaz; Chapter 5 Gender Politics
Legal Reform
and the Muslim Community in India
Zoya Hasan; Chapter 6 Woman
Community
and Nation
Tanika Sarkar; Part 2 The Everyday and the Local; Chapter 7 Women and Men in a Contemporary Pietist Movement
Barbara D. Metcalf; Chapter 8 Gender
Community
and the Local State in Bijnor
India
Patricia Jeffery
Roger Jeffery; Chapter 9 The Other Side of the Discourse
Shaheed Farida; Part 3 Agency and Activism; Chapter 10 Hindu Women's Activism in India and the Questions It Raises
Amrita Basu; Chapter 11 Motherhood as a Space of Protest
Malathi De Alwis; Chapter 12 Women and Islamic Revivalism in a Bangladeshi Community
Gardner Katy; Chapter 13 Agency
Activism
and Agendas
Patricia Jeffery;