Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India

ISBN-13: 9780190949426 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 184 str.

Natasha Behl

Recenzje

In this compelling political ethnography of how Sikh women experience citizenship in India, Behl asks a pressing question relevant to all liberal democracies: why do the punitive effects of gender persist in spite of constitutional guarantees to the contrary? Pushing against the limitations of mainstream research, Behl develops the concept of situated citizenship to unpack how the pervasiveness of sexual and gender-based violence, as well as informal gender norms, gut the promise of political equality for all. Filled with the voices of ordinary Sikh women, Behl's book challenges conventional assumptions with an analytically rich account of how and why citizenship remains profoundly gendered.

O autorze

Natasha Behl is Assistant Professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Behl specializes in gender and politics, race and politics, democracy and citizenship, feminist and interpretive methodologies, and Indian politics. Her research is published in Feminist Formations, Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Journal of Punjab Studies.