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Title Appropriating gender : women's activism and politicized religion in South Asia / edited by Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 1998.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.420954 A652A    Check Shelf
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.
Women -- Political activity -- South Asia.
Women and religion -- South Asia.
Religion and politics -- South Asia.
Sex role -- South Asia.
South Asia -- Social policy.
South Asia -- Politics and government.
Added Author Jeffery, Patricia, 1947-
Basu, Amrita, 1953-
ISBN 0415918650 hardcover
0415918669 paperback
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