Haram in the harem : domestic narratives in India and Algeria Muslim women in colonial India : the importance of the proper housewife The Algerian resistance : non combat women within the family fold The partition of India : womens bodies embody mens honor Multiple narratives in short fiction When real life and fiction converge Alternative domesticity in the South Asian Muslim zenna : I am a realist The sister in law and her husbands family :  the complete housewife Discovering homoerotic desire in the household of The quilt Conclusion Severed sound : the emotional sister in Assia Dejbars Women of Algiers in their apartments Returning home in post revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed female fighter Family politics in post revolutionary Algeria : the absorbed widow Conclusion Between women and their bodies : male perspectives of female partition experiences Abducted female during partition : historical fact and literary figure Caught between the communal and the familial : his only sister his treasure Conclusion Thematic intersections