1st Edition
Gender, Ethnicity and Political Agency South Asian Women Organizing
By Shaminder Takhar
Copyright 2013
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Shaminder Takhar is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at London South Bank University.
