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Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance Politics

The Case of Kashmir

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Inshah Malik

    1. Srinagar, India

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  • Demonstrates that feminist notions of ‘agency’ and ‘victimhood’ are problematic and inadequate to understand women’s political action and inter-subjectivity

  • Reveals the presence of agential political power in Muslim women, often portrayed as 'weak'

  • Discusses women’s rights at large with a specific focus on how Kashmiri Muslim women found creative and often subversive ways to assert their rights through militarization

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Muslim Women, Agency and Resistance

    • Inshah Malik
    Pages 1-19

  3. Kashmiri Nationalism: Women, Class and Plebiscite

    • Inshah Malik
    Pages 21-54

  4. Resurgence of Muslim Consciousness and Islamic Liberation Theology

    • Inshah Malik
    Pages 55-85

  5. Militarism, Occupation and the New Women’s Resistance

    • Inshah Malik
    Pages 87-114

  6. Conclusion

    • Inshah Malik
    Pages 115-130
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About this book

This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women. It exhibits Muslim women not merely as accidental victims but conscientious agents who choose to operate within the struggles of self-determination. The experience of victimization stimulates women to take control of their lives and press for change. Despite experiencing isolating political conditions, Kashmiri women do not internalize their supposed inferiority. The author shows that women’s struggles against patriarchy are at the heart of a very complex historical resistance to the Indian rule.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Srinagar, India

    Inshah Malik

About the author

Inshah Malik is a Political Theorist and Gender Studies scholar. She is a former Fox International Fellow at Yale University, USA. 

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