The Womens Movement In Religious Communities In India
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Author | : K. S. Durrany |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Christian women |
ISBN | : |
Discusses women in the Hindu, Christian, and Muslim communities. Provides details of the functioning of women's movements. Some chapters provide background including the impact of the West on women's issues in the Social Reform Movement of the 19th century.
Author | : Ruspini, Elisabetta |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1447336372 |
This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women’s identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses the current and future challenges posed by women’s changes to religion in different parts of the world and among different religious traditions and practices. The contributors address a diverse range of themes and issues including the attitudes of different religions to gender equality; how women construct their identity through religious activity; whether women have opportunity to influence religious doctrine; and the impact of migration on the religious lives of both women and men.
Author | : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1994-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674254392 |
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham’s nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women’s groups. Higginbotham’s history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a “politics of respectability” and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities. Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.
Author | : Malik Ram Baveja |
Publisher | : Advent Books Division Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Maiyatree Chaudhuri |
Publisher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2005-03-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
This collection is an invaluable overview of the rich history of Indian feminism. It brings together the writing of prominent Indian academics and activists as they debate feminism in the context of Indian culture, society and politics, and explore its theoretical foundations in India. The inevitable association with western feminism, the status of women in colonial and independent India, and the challenges to Indian feminism posed by globalization and the Hindu Right are discussed at length. It deepens our understanding of why, despite the existence of legal and constitutional rights, women are subject to oppressive practices like dowry.
Author | : Aruna Asaf Ali |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Feminism |
ISBN | : |
Om kvindens stilling i Indien, både i det kulturelle og i det politiske billede
Author | : Wendy Sinclair-Brull |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136789456 |
This book examines in rich detail the neglected topic of female ascetics. Based on field research, it documents the social forces which facilitated the establishment of an Order of Ascetics for women, defying tradition in many respects. It describes the subtle methods by which the individual is transformed into a full member of the Order, and how hierarchy and purity are indeed integral to the process.
Author | : Ayesha Khan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1786735237 |
The military rule of General Zia ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, had significant political repercussions for the country. Islamization policies were far more pronounced and control over women became the key marker of the state's adherence to religious norms. Women's rights activists mobilized as a result, campaigning to reverse oppressive policies and redefine the relationship between state, society and Islam. Their calls for a liberal democracy led them to be targeted and suppressed. This book is a history of the modern women's movement in Pakistan. The research is based on documents from the Women's Action Forum archives, court judgments on relevant cases, as well as interviews with activists, lawyers and judges and analysis of newspapers and magazines. Ayesha Khan argues that the demand for a secular state and resistance to Islamization should not be misunderstood as Pakistani women sympathizing with a western agenda. Rather, their work is a crucial contribution to the evolution of the Pakistani state. The book outlines the discriminatory laws and policies that triggered domestic and international outcry, landmark cases of sexual violence that rallied women activists together and the important breakthroughs that enhanced women's rights. At a time when the women's movement in Pakistan is in danger of shrinking, this book highlights its historic significance and its continued relevance today.
Author | : Anupama Rao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Caste |
ISBN | : |
Contributed articles on the issues related to Dalit women in India.
Author | : Ziya Us Salam |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2020-08-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 939007794X |
From Delhi to Chennai, a million Shaheen Baghs. A copy of the Constitution in one hand, the tricolour in the other, Shaheen Bagh became a symbol of a vibrant democracy and secular pilgrimage. But who were these women who braved it all? Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement is a moving tale of the brave women of Shaheen Bagh-patient, persevering and unbelievable peaceniks-who raised their voice for the deprived and the discriminated. Initially starting out as a cry of anguish against the allegedly discriminatory laws of the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens, it soon became a modern-day Gandhian movement for equal rights for all citizens. The book is a result of the authors' abiding focus on the movement, including spending time with the brave hearts almost every day of the protest from dawn to dusk and beyond. The authors slept in the open near the protest site to understand what it takes for a ninety-year-old woman to leave the comfort of her bed during a chilly winter night and stand up for the future of each one of us as equal citizens of the country. The book recounts how the women did not abjure ahimsa even when their opponents stooped to barbs and bullets. It recaptures for the reader the riveting cry for democracy that was Shaheen Bagh. Authors Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf take us on this glorious journey of the making of Shaheen Bagh and how it became a metaphor for resistance, spawning a hundred Shaheen Baghs across the country in a bid to restore the sanctity of the Constitution, the national flag and the national anthem.