Description |
xi, 276 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Appropriating gender / Amrita Basu -- Reproducing the legitimate community: secularity, sexuality, and the state in postpartition India / Ritu Menon -- (Re)presenting Islam: manipulating gender, shifting state practices, and class frustrations in Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman -- The outsider(s) within: sovereignty and citizenship in Pakistan / Shahnaz Rouse -- Gender politics, legal reform, and the Muslim community in India / Zoya Hasan -- Women, community, and nation: a historical trajectory for Hindu identity politics / Tanika Sarkar -- Women and men in a contemporary pietist movement: the case of the Tablīghī Jamaʹat / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Gender, community, and the local state in Bijnor, India / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- The other side of the discourse: women's experiences of identity, religion, and activism in Pakistan / Farida Shaheed -- Hindu women's activism in India and the questions it raises / Amrita Basu -- Motherhood as a space of protest: women's political participation in contemporary Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alwis -- Women and Islamic revivalism in a Bangladeshi community / Katy Gardner -- Agency, activism, and agendas / Patricia Jeffery. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-267) and index. |
Subject |
Women -- South Asia -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Political activity -- South Asia.
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Women and religion -- South Asia.
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Religion and politics -- South Asia.
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Sex role -- South Asia.
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South Asia -- Social policy.
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South Asia -- Politics and government.
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Added Author |
Jeffery, Patricia, 1947-
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Basu, Amrita, 1953-
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ISBN |
0415918650 hardcover |
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0415918669 paperback |
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