Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415918664 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str.

Patricia Jeffrey; Patricia Jeffery; Amrita Basu

Opis

This volume is a comprehensive collection of essays that examines the role of women in fundamentalist movements, as well as the gender policies of these movements and of the South Asian states in which they operate. Divided into three sections, Part I examines gender, nation, and the state; Part II the Everyday and the Local; and Part III the dynamics of agency and activism in India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The book addresses fundamentalism from a woman's perspective.

Recenzje

"This volume makes a very significant contribution to a growing literature on women, gender, and right wing politics in South Asia." -- Journal of Asian Studies
"Readers interested in the dynamics of religious conversion, will appreciate Huff's discerning analysis." -- Jeffrey Marlett, College of St. Rose Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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.