Bullets to Ballots:

This study attempts to explore women's political participation in the militant political movement on the basis of agency and emancipation. The analysis is based on Nepal's Maoist movement and women's agency within this. While analyzing, this study also gives special attention to the relationships of agency, emancipation and violence. Many feminist writings in the west challenge the notion of agency and say that it is absent in patriarchal militant movements. Thus, this study attempts to see whether it applies in the Maoist movement. In case of Nepal, the issue of caste, ethnicity, class, region are closely associated with the issue of gender thus this paper draws attention to the intersectionality between these and the issue of women's leadership. This study ultimately aims to add value in the area of women's engagement in the political process within the revolutionary movement in South Asia. Relevance

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Archana Aryal, Kathamandu NepalMA in Development Studies with specialization in Conflict, Reconstruction and Human Security, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The NetherlandsMA in Anthropology, SM College, Kathmandu NepalResearch work:EFFECTS OF 'PEOPLE'S WAR' ON WOMEN:A CASE STUDY FROM WESTERN TERAI OF NEPAL

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This study attempts to explore women s political participation in the militant political movement on the basis of agency and emancipation. The analysis is based on Nepal s Maoist movement and women s agency within this. While analyzing, this study also gives special attention to the relationships of agency, emancipation and violence. Many feminist writings in the west challenge the notion of agency and say that it is absent in patriarchal militant movements. Thus, this study attempts to see whether it applies in the Maoist movement. In case of Nepal, the issue of caste, ethnicity, class, region are closely associated with the issue of gender thus this paper draws attention to the intersectionality between these and the issue of women s leadership. This study ultimately aims to add value in the area of women s engagement in the political process within the revolutionary movement in South Asia. Relevance