TY - JOUR
T1 - Muslim Woman/Muslim women
T2 - Lived experiences beyond religion and gender in South Asia and its diasporas
AU - Jeffery, Patricia
AU - Qureshi, Kaveri
N1 - Funding Information:
This Special Issue is based on the panel Muslim Woman/Muslim women at the 25th European Conference on South Asian Studies, in July 2018. We are very grateful to the conference organisers in Paris at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, particularly the Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud. Our thanks go to all those who attended the panel and offered vibrant interpretations and insights for the authors, to those who acted as discussants, and to those whose papers have not been included in this Special Issue, particularly Heba Ahmed, Saba Hussain, Tanvi Patel-Banerjee and Anita Weiss. For the encouragement to realise the panel as a Special Issue, and for incredibly generous and efficient support at every step in bringing it together, we are extremely grateful to John Zavos. Our thanks to John Zavos, Sylvia Vatuk and Zubair Abbasi for their comments on this introduction. Huge thanks, also, to the 25 peer reviewers who provided such constructive criticism of the papers, and to our contributors, for their patience throughout this project. The School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh provided a Research Development Fund grant to support copy-editing, which was undertaken by Surit Das.
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Images of the ‘Muslim Woman’—passive, cloistered, and oppressed—have a long and inglorious history and have often been deployed in wider political debates in South Asia and beyond. However, the ground realities tell a different story: there is no such person as the ‘Muslim Woman’ and this Special Issue presents papers that highlight the diversity of Muslim women’s lives within South Asia and among Muslim women of South Asian heritage in the diaspora. Muslim women often live in economic and political contexts that are hostile to their wellbeing and their experiences are also shot through with their own intersecting identities—region and residence, class, educational and employment opportunities, marital status, stage in the life course, and so forth. Our contributors focus on different arenas to highlight the diverse complexities faced by Muslim women grappling with the exigencies of daily life: engagements with the legal system in relation to marriage and inheritance; performing ‘claims work’ in order to obtain their entitlements from the state; involvement in income-generating work; and the impact of male outmigration on ‘left-behind’ wives.
AB - Images of the ‘Muslim Woman’—passive, cloistered, and oppressed—have a long and inglorious history and have often been deployed in wider political debates in South Asia and beyond. However, the ground realities tell a different story: there is no such person as the ‘Muslim Woman’ and this Special Issue presents papers that highlight the diversity of Muslim women’s lives within South Asia and among Muslim women of South Asian heritage in the diaspora. Muslim women often live in economic and political contexts that are hostile to their wellbeing and their experiences are also shot through with their own intersecting identities—region and residence, class, educational and employment opportunities, marital status, stage in the life course, and so forth. Our contributors focus on different arenas to highlight the diverse complexities faced by Muslim women grappling with the exigencies of daily life: engagements with the legal system in relation to marriage and inheritance; performing ‘claims work’ in order to obtain their entitlements from the state; involvement in income-generating work; and the impact of male outmigration on ‘left-behind’ wives.
KW - 'Muslim Woman'
KW - Muslim family law
KW - 'claims work'
KW - income-generating work
KW - 'left behind' wives
UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccsa20/current
U2 - 10.1080/09584935.2021.2021859
DO - 10.1080/09584935.2021.2021859
M3 - Article
SN - 0958-4935
VL - 30
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Contemporary South Asia
JF - Contemporary South Asia
IS - 1
ER -