Gendered Citizenship

Natasha Behl is Assistant Professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Behl specializes in gender and politics, race and politics, democracy and citizenship, feminist and interpretive methodologies, and Indian politics. Her research is published in Feminist Formations, Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Journal of Punjab Studies.

Behl, through autoethnographic writing, truly fills an immense gap between empirical and theoretical work on citizenship and brings to the forefront an important topic in political science. ... Further, Behl challenges the field of political science by arguing that if its members are not open to new sources of knowledge, they would continue to replicate gender-blind policies and restrict the capacity of Indians to move toward gender equality.

• Chapter 1: Politics in Unusual Places: Understanding Gendered Citizenship and Gendered ViolenceChapter 2: Situated Citizenship: An Intersectional and Embodied Approach to CitizenshipChapter 3: Gendered Citizenship: Secular State, Religious Community, and GenderChapter 4: Understanding Exclusionary Inclusion: Sikh Women, Home, and MarriageChapter 5: Challenging Exclusionary Inclusion: Sikh Women, Religious Community, and Devotional ActsChapter 6: Conclusion: Reconsidering Politics in Unusual PlacesNotesBibliographyIndex