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Author : Tanika Sarkar,Urvashi Butalia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X006132007
With reference to India; contributed articles.
Author : Urvashi Butalia,Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788194721833
This work attempts to break new ground by posing questions about women’s activism within the Hindu right, a crucial issue that has barely been addressed. These essays look at gender within the framework of larger questions: the organizational history of the formation – still developing – we call the Hindu Right; its relationship to change in religious processes, economic developments, caste politics and constitutional crisis over the last few decades. The essays also pose difficult questions for the theory and practice of feminist politics which has tended to identify women’s political activism with emancipatory politics. Right-wing movements, it has been assumed, have – because of their emphasis on “tradition” – an inverse relationship to women’s politicization. Yet violently communal politics have pulled women into militant politics. What do these and other questions and paradoxes mean for the theory and practice of “feminist” politics, and how do right-wing strategies and tactics compare with those developed by radical women’s groups?
Author : Kalyani Devaki Menon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812202793
Hindu nationalism has been responsible for acts of extreme violence against religious minorities and is a dominant force on the sociopolitical landscape of contemporary India. How does such a violent and exclusionary movement recruit supporters? How do members navigate the tensions between the normative prescriptions of such movements and competing ideologies? To understand the expansionary power of Hindu nationalism, Kalyani Menon argues, it is critical to examine the everyday constructions of politics and ideology through which activists garner support at the grassroots level. Based on fieldwork with women in several Hindu nationalist organizations, Menon explores how these activists use gendered constructions of religion, history, national insecurity, and social responsibility to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds. As Hindu nationalism extends its reach to appeal to increasingly diverse groups, she explains, it is forced to acknowledge a multiplicity of positions within the movement. She argues that Hindu nationalism's willingness to accommodate dissonance is central to understanding the popularity of the movement. Everyday Nationalism contends that the Hindu nationalist movement's power to attract and maintain constituencies with incongruous beliefs and practices is key to its growth. The book reveals that the movement's success is facilitated by its ability to become meaningful in people's daily lives, resonating with their constructions of the past, appealing to their fears in the present, presenting itself as the protector of the country's citizens, and inventing traditions through the use of Hindu texts, symbols, and rituals to unite people in a sense of belonging to a nation.
Author : Amrita Basu,Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009123143
Explores women's roles and contributions in Hindu nationalism and nationalist organizations in the contemporary Indian context.
Author : Tanika Sarkar,Urvashi Butalia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X006057292
Feminism tends to identify women's political activism with emancipatory movements. Yet how can this view be reconciled with the current involvement of women in right-wing causes?
Author : Patricia Jeffery,Amrita Basu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136051586
Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also asserted their gender, class, caste, and religious identities; contrary to the hopes of nation states, they have often challenged state policies and practices. Through a comparative South Asia perspective, Appropriating Gender explores the varied meanings and expressions of gender identity through time, by location, and according to political context. The first work to focus on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context, Appropriating Gender is an outstanding contribution to the field of gender studies.
Author : Nandini Deo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317530671
Religious nationalists and women’s activists have transformed India over the past century. They debated the idea of India under colonial rule, shaped the constitutional structure of Indian democracy, and questioned the legitimacy of the postcolonial consensus, as they politicized one dimension of identity. Using a historical comparative approach, the book argues that external events, activist agency in strategizing, and the political economy of transnational networks explain the relative success and failure of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement rather than the ideological claims each movement makes. By focusing on how particular activist strategies lead to increased levels of public support, it shows how it is these strategies rather than the ideologies of Hindutva and feminism that mobilize people. Both of these social movements have had decades of great power and influence, and decades of relative irrelevance, and both challenge postcolonial India’s secular settlement – its division of public and private. The book goes on to highlight new insights into the inner dynamics of each movement by showing how the same strategies - grassroots education, electoral mobilization, media management, donor cultivation - lead to similarly positive results. Bringing together the study of Hindu nationalism and the Indian women’s movement, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Religion, Gender Studies, and South Asian Politics.
Author : Srimati Basu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791440958
Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents' self-acquired property. However, in the years since the act's existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of women's decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women's decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to women's rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.
Author : Paola Bacchetta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X004887894
On the political role and Hindu sentiments of women members of Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, an Indian political party; articles.
Author : Tanika Sarkar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0253340462
What are the major Hindu ideas and traditions of India that have shaped dominant conceptions of womanhood, domesticity, wifeliness, and mothering, and of India as a Hindu nation? Tanika Sarkar analyzes literary and social traditions, the elite voices and popular culture that helped create the lived reality of north India today. She explores the proto-nationalist novels of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya as well as scandal literature, rumors, women's memoirs, and the popular press of colonial times for the subaltern ideas that have shaped contemporary India. Sarkar also examines the way earlier Indian religious traditions of saintliness, sacrifice, heroism, and warfare are being subverted or transformed by militant and fundamentalist forms of Hinduism.
Author : Neera Bharihoke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Hindu women
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129023078
The Book Focuses On The Various Problems Of Women Which Are Deep-Rooted In The Strong Patriarchal Traditions In Indian Society. Subjugation Of Women, Regardless Of Their Religion, Caste Or Creed, Is Embedded To Such An Extent That It Goes Largely Unseen, Unexamined And Unquestioned. The Articles/Papers In The Book Highlight The Austere And Blatant Deprivation Of Women Of Their Basic Rights Of Life And Living And All The Sectors Of Society Symptomatically And Systematically Contribute Towards This Deprivation. Women, Despite Being Equipped With The Rights, Lack The Will Or Power To Use Them. A Foretaste Of The Research Articles Contributed By Authors Highlights The Atrocities And Lacunae In The System. Articles Also Draw Attention To Economic View Point And Impact Of Use Or Non-Use Of The Rights By Women. In Present Times, The Role And Responsibilities Of Women Has Attained New Perimeters And Perception. Educational And Occupational Blueprints Have Also Changed And Amplified Resulting In Women Entering The Provinces, Which Were Considered To Be Dominated By Men. Women Issues Have Also Received Recognition And Support By Legislature. Women Empowerment Can Be Achieved Only By Granting Women The Primary Rights Of Expression, Autonomy And Decision-Making.
Author : Kathleen M. Blee,Sandra McGee Deutsch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271061719
In Women of the Right, Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch bring together a groundbreaking collection of essays examining women in right-wing politics across the world, from the early twentieth-century white Afrikaner movement in South Africa to the supporters of Sarah Palin today. The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how women matter in the national and transnational links and exchanges of rightist politics. Suitable for classroom use, it sets a new agenda for scholarship on women on the right. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Nancy Aguirre, Karla J. Cunningham, Kirsten Delegard, Kathleen M. Fallon, Kate Hallgren, Randolph Hollingsworth, Jill Irvine, Vandana Joshi, Carol S. Lilly, Annette Linden, Julie Moreau, Margaret Power, Mariela Rubinzal, Daniella Sarnoff, Ronnee Schreiber, Meera Sehgal, Louise Vincent, and Veronica A. Wilson.
Author : Wendy Doniger,Martha Craven Nussbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195395532
Based on presentations at a conference at the University of Chicago Law School in November 2005.
Author : Reena Patel
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781409493402
Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.
Author : Ramabai Sarasvati
Publisher : Philadelphia : [s.n.]
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Social Science
ISBN : HARVARD:HNBP6S
