Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia highlights the rich tradition of protest and defiance among the Muslim women of colonial India. Bringing together a range of archival material including novels, pamphlets, commentaries and journalistic essays, it narrates a history of Muslim feminism conversing with, and confronting the dominant and influential narratives of didactic social reform. The book reveals how discussion about marriage and family evoked claims of women’s freedom and rights in a highly charged literary and cultural landscape where lesser-known female intellectuals jostled for public space alongside well-known male social reformers. Definitions of Islamic ethics remained central to these debates, and the book illustrates how claims of social obligation, religious duty and freedom balanced and negotiated each other in a period of nationalism and reform. By doing so, it also illuminates a story of Muslim politics that goes beyond the well-established accounts of Muslim separatism and the Pakistan movement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-28
Mått:155 x 235 x 27 mm
Vikt:742 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia
Antal sidor:356
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004421103

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Islam inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Asiya Alam is assistant professor of history at Louisiana State University. She has published articles on women and Islam in South Asia in Modern Asian Studies, and in edited volumes.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction1 Women, Islam and Social Reform2 Ethics and the Question of Family3 Urdu Public Sphere4 Gender and Nationalism5 Structure of the Book1 Familial Ethics and the Critique of Social Reform1 Nineteenth Century Debates on Akhlaq: Ethics as Relationships2 Reformist Censorship and the Battle for Women’s Voice3 Fatherhood and Contentious Advice4 Disruption of Social Reform: ‘Respectability’ as Oppression5 Parent-child Relations, Rights and Social Authority6 Conclusion2 Marital Consent and the Discourse of ‘Women’s Freedom’1 Coercive Marriage and the Vision of Compatibility2 Marital Compatibility as Social Practice3 Marital Consent in Urdu Magazines4 Pardah: Seclusion and/ or Participation5 ‘Women’s Freedom’6 Conclusion3 Conjugal Sexuality and the Politics of Reproduction1 Bodily Health and Conjugality2 Masculinity and Global “Anti-Vice” Campaigns3 Sexual Pleasure, Female Sexual Desire and Reproduction4 Eugenics and Family5 Niyaz Fatehpuri: Colonial Knowledge and History of Sexuality6 Conclusion4 Polygyny1 Sexuality and ‘Legitimate Polygyny’2 Social Reform and Its Advocacy of ‘Legitimate Polygyny’3 Critiques of Polygyny4 Muslim Women’s Conference, 1918, Lahore5 Polygynous Marriage of Saiyid ?Abid Husain and Saliha ?Abid Husain6 Conclusion5 Marital Annulment and Separation of Family1 Talaq (Divorce)2 Divorce and Male Authority3 Respectability, Equality and Marital Annulment4 Debating Strategies for Change5 Women’s Freedom, Female Apostasy and Marriage6 Two Men on Divorce: Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act of 19397 Mahr and the Economy of Marriage8 Ethical Dilemmas: Non-Legal Familial Conflict9 ConclusionPostscript1 Saiyida Bano Ahmad: Intimacy outside MarriageBibliographyIndex