Research Catalog

Title

In a minority : essays on Muslim women in India / edited by Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon.

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hasan, Zoya, 1947-
• Menon, Ritu.
• Ḥasan, Zoyā

Description

vi, 396 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Muslim women > India > Social conditions
• Muslim women > India > Political activity
• Muslim women > Legal status, laws, etc. > India
• Muslim women > India

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon -- Muslim women and personal law / Sylvia Vatuk -- Muslim women and inheritance / Nasreen Fazalbhoy -- The mother's lap and the civilising mission : Madrasa education and rural Muslim girls in western Uttar Pradesh / Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery, and Craig Jeffrey -- Other communities, other histories : a study of Muslim women and education in Kashmir / Farida Abdulla Khan -- Muslim women's low labour force participation in India : some structural explanations / Maitreyi Bordia Das -- Muslim women in Indian politics 1947-2002 / Karin Deutsch Karlekar -- Panchayati Raj and women in Kerala : the case of Muslims / Aboobacker Siddique P. -- Issues in women's leadership in Andhra Pradesh / Kalpana Kannabiran -- Disrupting an almost seamless discourse : working-class Muslim women's accounts of a communal clash and curfew in the city of Ajmer / Keri Olsen -- Images and representations of Muslim women in the media, 1990-2001 / Sabina Kidwai.

ISBN

• 9780195665840
• 0195665848

OCLC

• 60592547
• SCSB-13204736

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library