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

• Pubblicazione: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/697
• Soggetto topico: Muslim women - Asia - Social conditions; Feminism - Asia; Feminism - Religious aspects - Islam
• Persona (resp. second.): Ahmed-GhoshHuma
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Asian Muslim women
• ISBN: 1-4384-5776-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797667303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Genders in the global south.