ISBN:
0195791525
Language:
English
Pages:
XXI, 291 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Dissertation note:
Zugl: London, Univ. of London, Diss., 1996
DDC:
305.420882971
Keywords:
Geschichte 1920-1947
;
Feminisme
;
Femmes - Droits - Inde - Histoire
;
Femmes dans l'islam - Inde - Histoire
;
Féminisme - Inde - Histoire
;
Islamieten
;
Musulmanes - Inde - Histoire
;
Women's rights - India - Religious aspects - Islam
;
Feminismus
;
Geschichte
;
Religion
;
Feminism History
;
Muslim women History
;
Women in Islam History
;
Women's rights Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Women's rights History
;
Feminismus
;
Muslimin
;
Indien
;
Britisch-Indien
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Britisch-Indien
;
Muslimin
;
Feminismus
;
Geschichte 1920-1947
Abstract:
"Various studies have contributed to understanding the changing position and relevance of Muslim women to society. Some tend to focus on traditional reformers of Muslim womanhood, or, concentrate on the post-independence position of Indian Muslim women. There still remains a gap, therefore, as far as understanding the chain of developments which gradually opened up a place for Muslim women in terms of their private and public lives. Indeed, the gradual process of increasing awareness among Indian Muslim women and the movement for their emancipation did not occur accidentally or by chance, but rather it was a historical process achieved through different stages. Without knowing these chains of development, it remains difficult to examine how Muslim society in general and Muslim women in particular responded to these changes and challenges during the decades leading to independence and the creation of Pakistan." "This book, therefore, seeks to fill the gap identified above as well as to offer some thoughts on the emergence of 'feminism' among Indian Muslim women. It does this by focusing on various kinds of 'spaces' in which Muslim women were increasingly able to participate in the public sphere, created in large part by changes emanating from the impact of the colonial state. Through the use of the term 'feminism' this study acknowledges its growing popularity in the Indian subcontinent during the period under discussion, albeit among growing Indian middle classes."--BOOK JACKET.
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