Ahmed-Ghosh Asian Muslim Women

Globalization and Local Realities
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5776-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Presents multifaceted aspects of Asian Muslim women’s lives and agencies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahmed-Ghosh, Huma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

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
Shelley Feldman

2. Dilemmas of Women’s Movements in Turkey: Labor, Charity, and Neoliberal Patriarchy
Damla Isik

3. Complicated Belonging: Gendered Empoerment and Anxieties about “Returning” among Internally Displaced Muslim Women in Puttalam, Sri Lanka
Sandya Hewamanne

4. Women in Post-Conflict Sweat, Pakistan: Notes on Agency, Resistance, and Survival
Lubna Nazir Chaudhry

Part II. Muslim Women: Lived Realities, Resistance, and the State

5. Maintenance for Divorced Muslim Women after the Muslim Women (Protection of Right on Divorce) Act 1986: A View from the Lower Courts
Sylvia Vatuk

6. Gender, Sharia, and the Politics of Punishment: A Contemporary Malaysian Case
Maila Stivens

7. At the Forefront of a Post-Patriarchal Islamic Education: Female Teachers in Indonesia
Ann Kull

8. Education, Gender, and Islam in China: The Place of Religious Education in Challenging and Sustaining “undisputed traditions” among Chinese Muslim Women
Maria Jaschok and Hsu Ming Vicky Chan

Part III. Women’s Voices and Agency: Challenging and Reclaiming Islam

9. Cosmetics, Fashion, and Moral Panics: The Politics and Ethics of Beauty in a Girls’ Dormitory in Kabul
Julie Billaud

10. Negotiating Polygamy: Islam, Gender, and Feminism in Indonesia
Sonja van Wichelen

11. South Asian Muslim American Girls: Resistance and Compliance in Public and Private Spaces
Marcia Hermansen and Mahruq F. Khan

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Huma Ahmed-Ghosh is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University and the editor of Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia, also published by SUNY Press.