The diversity of Muslim women's lives in India /
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Moving the courts: Muslim women and personal law / Sylvia Vatuk
- Negotiating rights and relationships: women and inheritance / Nasreen Fazalbhoy
- The mother's lap and the civilizing mission : madrasa education and rural Muslim girls in western Uttar Pradesh / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffrey
- Other communities, other histories : a study of Muslim women and education in Kashmir / Farida Abdulla Khan
- Self-employed or unemployed : Muslim women's low labor-force participation in India / Maitreyi Bordia Das
- Entering the political arena : Muslim women in Indian politics / Karin Deutsch Karlekar
- Democracy at the grassroots : Muslim women and Panchayati Raj in Kerala / Aboobacker Siddique P.
- Empowerment and social division : issues in women's leadership in Aandhra Pradesh / Kalpana Kannabiran
- Disrupting an almost seamless discourse : working-class Muslim women's accounts of a communal clash and curfew in the city of Ajmer / Keri Olsen.