Muslim women speak : of dreams and shackles
Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles sage 2018Description: xxiv, 189 pISBN: 9789352805006 (hb print)Subject(s): Muslim women | IndiaDDC classification: 305.486970954 Summary: Muslim women have mostly been discussed and studied as passive victims who have no agency. Muslim Women Speak seeks to correct this by traversing an expansive canvas of dreams, aspirations, memory and everyday lives of both the ‘researcher’ and the ‘researched’ in an extensive study conducted in several states of India. Through a presentation and analysis of Indian Muslim women’s narratives about their own situation, the book challenges the image of Muslim women as historic victims of Islam and Muslim men. The book includes insights on the agency of young Muslim women and the impact of violence on their everyday lives after a violent ‘event’ or ‘episode’ passes into history and memory. It brings forth not only the ‘voices’ that have long been considered ‘silent’ but also dwells upon the epistemological and socio-political concerns of this ‘silencing’. In doing so, this book confronts the fault lines within the Indian feminist sisterhood and offers a considered critique of the women’s movement in India from within. The book will be mandatory reading for activists, government departments, policy planners, and students and scholars of gender studies and sociology.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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305.48412 MIG Migration, gender and care economy | 305.48697 GEN Gender and economics in Muslim communities : critical feminist and postcolonial analyses | 305.48697054 NIG/A Alternative realities :love in the lives of Muslim women | 305.486970954 GHA/M Muslim women speak : of dreams and shackles | 305.486970954 MCN/A Muslim women speak : | 305.486970954 SEE/A Azadi's daughter :journey of a liberal Muslim | 305.486970954 SHE/G Gendering minorities : |
Muslim women have mostly been discussed and studied as passive victims who have no agency. Muslim Women Speak seeks to correct this by traversing an expansive canvas of dreams, aspirations, memory and everyday lives of both the ‘researcher’ and the ‘researched’ in an extensive study conducted in several states of India. Through a presentation and analysis of Indian Muslim women’s narratives about their own situation, the book challenges the image of Muslim women as historic victims of Islam and Muslim men. The book includes insights on the agency of young Muslim women and the impact of violence on their everyday lives after a violent ‘event’ or ‘episode’ passes into history and memory. It brings forth not only the ‘voices’ that have long been considered ‘silent’ but also dwells upon the epistemological and socio-political concerns of this ‘silencing’. In doing so, this book confronts the fault lines within the Indian feminist sisterhood and offers a considered critique of the women’s movement in India from within. The book will be mandatory reading for activists, government departments, policy planners, and students and scholars of gender studies and sociology.
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