Forging Identities
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-00938-0 (ISBN)
This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how th
Introduction: Contextualising Gender and Identity in Contemporary India -- Reading and Writing about Muslim Women in British India -- Gender and the Politics of Space: the movement for women's reform, 1857-1900* -- Defining Women through Legislation -- Minority Identity, State Policy and the Political Process -- Identity Politics, Secularism and Women: a South Asian perspective -- The Constitution and Muslim Personal Law -- Between Community and State: the question of women’s rights and personal laws -- Education, Money, and the Role of Women in Maintaining Minority Identity -- Preserving Identity: a case study of Palitpur1 -- Communal Property/Sexual Property: on representations of Muslim women in a Hindu nationalist discourse1 -- Muslim Socials and the Female Protagonist: seeing a dominant discourse at work -- Urdu, Awadh and the Tawaif: the Islamicate roots of Hindi cinema
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.07.2019 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 133 x 217 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-367-00938-2 / 0367009382 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-00938-0 / 9780367009380 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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