Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods In India

Author : Saba Hussain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042988527X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India written by Saba Hussain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical research in India, this book presents a post-colonial feminist analysis of subjectivities available to Muslim girls and the ways in which they are inhabited and negotiated. Examining government education policies together with the narratives of teachers and parents, the author explores the manner in which gender, class, ethnicity and religion intersect both to confer certain subjectivities and to challenge or reinforce the conferred subjectivities. A study of the imposition of subjectivities that label Muslim girls as economically subordinate and culturally different, Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India analyses Muslim girls’ reconstructions of self through a combination of reflexivity, resilience and agency, and conformity. Drawing on the thought of Pierre Bourdieu and Nancy Fraser, this volume offers an original contribution to the study of gendered minorities, institutions and relationships in post-colonial contexts, and an alternative to identitarian politics or cultural explanations of Muslim women’s educational deprivation in India. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and gender studies with interests in education, class, religion and identity.

Author : Seema Kazi
Publisher : Minority Rights Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women in India written by Seema Kazi and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report locates the political, socio-economic and legal position of Muslim women within a historical framework, beginning with the evolution of Islam in India and its subsequent interaction with Indian society. It emphasizes the diversity of women in Muslim communities and the range of factors influencing their status. Kazi traces the developments in discourses of gender vis-à-vis Muslim women from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and describes Muslim women's transition from being British subjects to Indian citizens. Muslim women's contributions within the women's movement are outlined, as well as the challenges they face as members of India's largest religious minority community.

Author : Nazia Hussein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000589579
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim New Womanhood in Bangladesh written by Nazia Hussein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how categories of gender, class, culture and religion are modes of power which inform hierarchies of social locations and people’s sense of belonging within these spaces and temporalities. It offers an alternative and innovative theoretical framework - new womanhood - for studying middle-class, urban, educated, professional women in South Asia. The book places respectable femininity at the centre of the construction and performance of new womanhood in Bangladesh: a complex and heterogeneous construction of womanhood in relation to women’s negotiations with public and private sphere roles and cultural norms of female propriety. It establishes new women as part of the neoliberal middle class as they construct their class identity as a status group, claiming inter-class and intra-class distinction from other women. It also explains how new womanhood is legitimized by alternative and multiple practices of respectability, varying according to women’s age, stage of life, profession, household setting and experience of living in Western countries. Finally, as new women forge alternative forms of respectability, theirs is not a straightforward abandonment of old structures of respectability; rather they substitute, conceal or legitimize particular practices of respectability in particular fields. While these new women’s gains are vested in the self, rather than a wider feminist politics, they have the potential to positively influence the terrain of possibilities for other women. Finally, through a study of cosmopolitan third world women who are part of a new and potentially powerful social group who occupy a privileged position in the society they live in, the book critiques Western feminist writing and challenges binary social construction of the ‘Muslim woman’ either as victims of patriarchal culture and religion or as a danger to Western liberalism, developing an understanding of cosmopolitan Muslim women’s classed gender identity as a struggle against classifications in the neoliberal times. It is the first book-length project of its kind to provide an understanding of the concept of new women in the Global South, which will be of interest to academics in the fields of sociology, gender studies, feminist theory, postcolonialism, inequality studies, cultural theory, development studies and South Asian Studies.

Author : Rowshan Ara Haque
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781592993406
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Muslim Women written by Rowshan Ara Haque and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we present the role of a modern Muslim woman, in the last quarter of 19th and first half of 20th centuries, and discuss the changes in their social, educational and political development in Muslim communities. Of course, their current stage of development occurred due to gradual change and development and the previous movements for their emancipation. These did not happen by chance but rather by a historical process, which have been achieved through various stages. It is important to be familiar with such chains of development, and how the general Muslim community and in particular Muslim women responded to these changes during the periods leading to the creation of many Muslim nations. In recent times there have been a number of studies on the status of Muslim women all over the world. Unfortunately, many of these studies incorrectly pointed out that their misfortune is determined by their religion, blaming Muslim personal law, marriage, divorce, deprivation of human rights, education, employment, freedom and self-determination. These lead to the continuous belief among many Non-Muslims and even among many Western educated Muslims that Islam is the obstacle for women's development and well-being, which is based on misconceptions about the position of women in Islam. In the present book, we take a different approach and show that the Muslim women's disadvantaged position can largely be explained by their local habits, poverty, inequality, unemployment, gender and social disability and injustice. In this respect, we extensively study the status of Muslim women in Bengal (presently Bangladesh and West Bengal, a state in India) during 1880-1937 to show that contemporaryMuslim women's social, educational and political development was similar to women of other religions.

Author : Zoya Hasan
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813537030
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diversity of Muslim Women's Lives in India written by Zoya Hasan and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to broaden the lens through which Muslim women are typically seen, a group of researchers in India carried out a large and unprecedented study of one of the most disadvantaged sections of Indian society. The editors of The Diversity of Muslim Women's Lives in India bring together this research in a comprehensive collection of informative and revealing case studies.

Author : Sharon Mazzarella
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040000932
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies written by Sharon Mazzarella and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies is the definitive guide to the international, interdisciplinary, and intersectional field of Girls’ Studies, bringing together leading and emerging scholars across a range of academic disciplines to address timely topics on global girls and girlhoods. Spread across four thematic sections, the essays in this collection offer a glimpse into the evolution of the field, directly challenge and move beyond the field’s early shortcomings, provide compelling examples of current research, and suggest new directions for future Girls’ Studies scholars. Chapters explore the connections between girlhoods and such topics as sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, education, activism, social-class, ability, gender identity, media representation, and more. The Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies is of value to scholars and students of gender studies, media studies, sociology, education, health, literature, sexuality studies, communication, child and youth studies, and more.

Author : Hajira Kumar
Publisher : Aakar Books
ISBN 13 : 9788187879039
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Status of Muslim Women in India written by Hajira Kumar and published by Aakar Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Throws Light On The Various Situations Which Colour The Profile Of Indian Muslim Women. The Authors Have Taken Care Of The Past And Present Conditions Of Muslim Women. As A Result, A Social Forecast For Their Future Is Possible. Historical Perspective Is A Unique Feature Of This Book, Especially As The Subsequent Chapters On Socio-Economic Perspectives Of The Contemporary Situation Create A Linkage Between The Past And The Present. Another Innovative Feature Is A Paper On The Participation Of Muslim Women In Panchayati Raj. Two Papers Have Also Been Devoted To Legal Problems And Muslim Personal Law. The Approach Of These Papers Include A Deep Sensitivity Of The Authors Towards The Sufferings Of Muslim Women Without Diluting The Objectivity.The Book Will Be Equally Useful For Academicians, Women Activists And Grassroot Workers.

Author : Farhana Ibrahim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198902786
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Religion and the Everyday written by Farhana Ibrahim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyday life in India. Events and processes in contemporary India--especially post the 1990s--have contributed to distinct modes of articulating religious practices. This volume is an attempt to historicize--and problematize--the categorization of religion as a universally held and analytically distinct feature of human life and seeks to understand the conditions--historical, political, discursive--and processes of authorization under which a particular set of practices, values, and dispositions constitutes the 'religious' at a specific point in time. By bringing together studies that draw from diverse methodological and epistemological approaches, the book will serve as a useful introduction to religion in India for the general reader and as an indispensable resource for students and researchers. The volume presents fresh perspectives on existing fields of study such as the city, capital, minorities, secularization, and the state--no longer seen as distinct from religion but actively co-produced with religion in the context of the theoretical rubric of the everyday--thereby marking a departure from approaching the question of religion solely through the lens of identity and conflict.

Author : Shahida Lateef
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Muslim Women in India written by Shahida Lateef and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the status and role in society of Muslim women in India. Based on a survey of nine major Indian cities in different states, it creates context in which issues such as education, literacy, social legislation and purdah can be understood

Author : Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Muslim Women in India written by Asghar Ali Engineer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book begins with the changing status of Muslim women and goes on to analyse the evolution of shari a the canon law of Islam and its interpretation in today s social context. Other problems dealt with include the controversial aspects of Muslim divorce laws in India, as compared with the changing legislation related to talaq in other Islamic countries.