Resisting the sacred and the secular
Subtitle: women's activism and politicized religion in South Asia
By: edited by Patricia Jeffery and Amrita Basu
Contributors: Joint Committee on South Asia
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Kali for Women
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788186706381
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Political activity; Women and religion; Religion and politics; Sex role; Social policy; Politics and government
Notes: "Papers presented at a conference held at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, Aug. 30 to Sept. 1, 1994, sponsored by the Joint Committee on South Asia of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies."--Title page verso.

Originally published: Appropriating gender : women's activism and politicized religion in South Asia. New York, NY : Routledge, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Resisting the sacred and the secular / Amrita Basu; title: Reproducing the legitimate community: secularity, sexuality, and the state in postpartition India / Ritu Menon; title: (Re)presenting Islam: manipulating gender, shifting state practices, and class frustrations in Bangladesh / Shelley Feldman; title: The outsider(s) within: sovereignty and citizenship in Pakistan / Shahnaz Rouse; title: Gender politics, legal reform, and the Muslim community in India / Zoya Hasan; title: Women, community, and nation: a historical trajectory for Hindu identity politics / Tanika Sarkar; title: Women and men in a contemporary pietist movement: piest movement: the case of the Tablīghī Jamaʹat / Barbara D. Metcalf; title: Gender, community, and the local state in Bijnor, India / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery; title: The other side of the discourse: women's experiences of identity, religion, and activism in Pakistan / Farida Shaheed; title: Hindu women's activism in India and the questions it raises / Amrita Basu; title: Motherhood as a space of protest: women's political participation in contemporary Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alwis; title: Women and Islamic revivalism in a Bangladeshi community / Katy Gardner; title: Agency, activism, and agendas / Patricia Jeffery.