Overview
- Demonstrates that feminist notions of ‘agency’ and ‘victimhood’ are problematic and inadequate to understand women’s political action and inter-subjectivity
- Reveals the presence of agential political power in Muslim women, often portrayed as 'weak'
- Discusses women’s rights at large with a specific focus on how Kashmiri Muslim women found creative and often subversive ways to assert their rights through militarization
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This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women. It exhibits Muslim women not merely as accidental victims but conscientious agents who choose to operate within the struggles of self-determination. The experience of victimization stimulates women to take control of their lives and press for change. Despite experiencing isolating political conditions, Kashmiri women do not internalize their supposed inferiority. The author shows that women’s struggles against patriarchy are at the heart of a very complex historical resistance to the Indian rule.
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Reviews
“Muslim Kashmiri women’s role and agency in politics was not accidental, but historical. ... Kashmiri Muslim women, the governing bodies should give more impetus to education, which will allow women to play a greater role in the transformation of society. The author’s praiseworthy research deserves appreciation.” (Firdous Hameed Parey, South Asia Research, Vol. 41 (3), 2021)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Inshah Malik is a Political Theorist and Gender Studies scholar. She is a former Fox International Fellow at Yale University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics
Book Subtitle: The Case of Kashmir
Authors: Inshah Malik
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95330-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95329-8Published: 27 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95330-4Published: 16 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 130
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics and Gender, Politics and Religion, Asian Politics, Conflict Studies, Military and Defence Studies, Development and Post-Colonialism