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



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Autore: Takhar Shaminder Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender, ethnicity, and political agency : South Asian women organizing / / Shaminder Takhar Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 305.420941
Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - Great Britain
South Asians - Great Britain - Politics and government
Feminism - Political aspects - Great Britain
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Race relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Gender, ethnicity, and political agency  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-138-90402-3
0-203-74187-0
1-135-00960-0
1-135-00961-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452666003321
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Serie: Routledge Research in Gender and Society