Asian Muslim women : globalization and local realities / edited by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh ; contributors, Huma Ahmed-Ghosh [and thirteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahmed-Ghosh, Huma, editor, contributor.

Series:

Genders in the global south.

SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Asia--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Feminism--Asia.

Feminism.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book resists the homogenization of Muslim women by detailing the diversity in their lives and by challenging the dominant paradigm of Arabized Islam as the sole interpreter of the faith. Though much has been written on the Middle East, there is a huge gap in research on Asia, which has two-thirds of the world's Muslim population. These essays reveal that the lives of Muslim women are impacted not only by Islam but also by local politics, class, religion, and ethnicity. Through ethnographic research and other methodologies, the contributors describe how economic globalization, construction of sexualities, and diasporic expectations shape women's lives. The book focuses on women's negotiations and resistances to global, national, and local patriarchies in an attempt to empower themselves.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Why Muslim Women in Asia?6; Brief History of Islam in Asia; The Book; Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Local Muslim Woman and Public Space; Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State; Part III. Women's Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part I: Globalization and Transnationalism: The Muslim Woman and Public Space; 1. "Just 6P on a T-shirt, or 12P on a pair of jeans": Bangladeshi Garment Workers Fight for a Livable Wage; Introduction

From Import Substitution to Export-Led Growth and the Rise of a Female Labor ForceThe Failed Promise and Emergent Worker Consciousness; Ongoing Contestation and Worker Demands; Policies as Usual: The BGMEA Resists Worker Demands; Widespread Protest, Government Backlash, and the Struggle Goes Global; Improved Working Conditions- The Key to Bangladesh's Competitive Edge; Notes; Bibliography; 2. Dilemmas of Women's Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy; Introduction; Traversing Varied Spaces: A Brief Note on Research

Neoliberal Reform: Labor, Gender Inequality, and New Forms of PovertyKemalist/Secularist Women: Modernization, Westernization, and the Ongoing Micropolitics of Attire and Representation; Conservative/Islamist/Pious Women: Micropolitics of Charity and Piety; Beyond Secular/Pious Dichotomy: Seeing Similarities and Embracing the Challenges Ahead; Notes; Bibliography; 3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empowerment and Anxieties about "Returning" among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka; Pollution and Purity of Displacement; Humanitarian Work and Gender

Class-Specific Identity PerformancesReproductive Health; Women as Border-Crossers; Ambivalent on "Imminent Peace"; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Women in Post-Conflict Swat, Pakistan; Historical Context; Notes on Agency, Resistance, and Survival; Resisting the Taliban; Supporting the Taliban; Working for Peace; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part II: Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State; 5. Maintenance for Divorced Muslim Women after the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986: A View from the Lower Courts; Introduction

The Impact of the MWA: Contrasting ViewsWomens' Low Rate of Resort to the Courts; Limited Knowledge of the MWA within the Legal Profession; Maintenance Cases Under S125 in the Additional Family Court of Hyderabad; The MWA in the Mahila Court of Hyderabad; Judgments Against a Divorcée's Relatives; Judgments Against a State Waqf Board; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Laws Cited; Cases Cited; 6. Gender, Sharia, and the Politics of Punishment: A Contemporary Malaysian Case1; Islamization and Modernity in Malaysia; The Trials of Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno; Caning and Modernity; Screening Kartika

The Gendered Politics of Punishment: Representation, Embodiment, and Effectivity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438457765

1438457766

OCLC:

921302208