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Resisting the Sacred and the Secular: Women's Activism and Politicised Religion in South Asia focuses on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context, and is an outstanding contribution to the field of gender studies. It explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes ...
This volume brings together authoritative, original essays that help explain the growing incidence of conflict in India by focusing on changes in the expression of community identity in relationship to changes in the character of the state. With essays by eminent analysts of Indian society and politics, this book is invaluable not just to students and teachers of Indian politics, but anyone interested in the myriad manifestations of identity politics and the ...
"This pathbreaking book provides an overview of the genesis, growth, gains and dilemmas of women's movements world-wide. Unlike most literature which focuses on the industrialised western world, this volume devotes far greater attention to the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The book challenges the assumptions that feminism can transcend national differences and, conversely, that women's movements are shaped and circumscribed by ...