Screen LibraryResisting the sacred and the secular：women's activism and politicized religion in South Asia
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Kali for Women,
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| Publisher Address: | New Deli |
| Publication Dates: | 1999. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 276 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 8186706380 |
| Index Number: | B928 |
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B928.35 D735.086.8 |
| Call Number: | D735.086.8/R433 |
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"Papers presented at a conference held at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, 1994, sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies." -- T.p. verso. Originally published: Appropriating gender : women's activism and politicized religion in South Asia. New York, NY : Routledge, 1998. Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-267) and index. Resisting the sacred and the secular / 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: piest 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. |