Gender, ethnicity, and political agency : South Asian women organizing / Shaminder Takhar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takhar, Shaminder, author.

Series:

Routledge Research in Gender and Society

Routledge research in gender and society ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Great Britain.

Women.

South Asians--Great Britain--Politics and government.

South Asians.

Feminism--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Feminism.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines how South Asian women's collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical research to demonstrate how women are empowered to resist domination. The historically racialized image of the South Asian woman as lacking in political agency is challenged through their long history of activism on the Indian subcontinent. The creation of ""critical spaces"" by South Asian women in the dia

Contents:

1. Redefining the parameters of political activism : South Asian women 'rocking the stereotype'

2. Conceptualizing South Asian women's political activism through a feminist lens

3. Understanding historical representations : political agency, resistance and the role of discourses

4. Researching political agency

5. Race, agency and political activism

6. 'In the name of the father' : contours of gender relations

7. Conceptualizing the uneasy relationship of religion to political agency

8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 05, 2013).

ISBN:

1-138-90402-3

0-203-74187-0

1-135-00960-0

1-135-00961-9

9780203741870

OCLC:

854521012