The diversity of Muslim women's lives in India /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hasan, Zoya, 1947-, Menon, Ritu
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
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.