Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics

Demonstrates that feminist notions of 'agency' and 'victimhood' are problematic and inadequate to understand women's political action and inter-subjectivity

Reveals the presence of agential political power in Muslim women, often portrayed as 'weak'

Discusses women's rights at large with a specific focus on how Kashmiri Muslim women found creative and often subversive ways to assert their rights through militarization

Autorentext
Inshah Malik is a Political Theorist and Gender Studies scholar. She is a former Fox International Fellow at Yale University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance.- 2. Kashmiri Nationalism: Women, Class and Plebiscite.- 3. Resurgence of Muslim Consciousness and Islamic Liberation Theology.- 4. Militarism, Occupation and the New Women's Resistance.- 5. Conclusion.