Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia /

Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia /

Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia highlights the rich tradition of protest and defiance among the Muslim women of colonial India. Bringing together a range of archival material including novels, pamphlets, commentaries and journalistic essays, it narrates a history of Muslim...

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Main Author: Alam, Asiya (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia ; 1.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441286.

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Muslim women > South Asia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Muslim women > South Asia > Social conditions > 20th century.
Marriage > South Asia > History > 19th century.
Marriage > South Asia > History > 20th century.
Feminism > South Asia > History > 20th century.

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505 0 |a Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 Women, Islam and Social Reform -- 2 Ethics and the Question of Family -- 3 Urdu Public Sphere -- 4 Gender and Nationalism -- 5 Structure of the Book -- 1 Familial Ethics and the Critique of Social Reform -- 1 Nineteenth Century Debates on Akhlaq: Ethics as Relationships -- 2 Reformist Censorship and the Battle for Women's Voice -- 3 Fatherhood and Contentious Advice -- 4 Disruption of Social Reform: 'Respectability' as Oppression -- 5 Parent-child Relations, Rights and Social Authority -- 6 Conclusion -- 2 Marital Consent and the Discourse of 'Women's Freedom' -- 1 Coercive Marriage and the Vision of Compatibility -- 2 Marital Compatibility as Social Practice -- 3 Marital Consent in Urdu Magazines -- 4 Pardah : Seclusion and/ or Participation -- 5 'Women's Freedom' -- 6 Conclusion -- 3 Conjugal Sexuality and the Politics of Reproduction -- 1 Bodily Health and Conjugality -- 2 Masculinity and Global "Anti-Vice" Campaigns -- 3 Sexual Pleasure, Female Sexual Desire and Reproduction -- 4 Eugenics and Family -- 5 Niyaz Fatehpuri: Colonial Knowledge and History of Sexuality -- 6 Conclusion -- 4 Polygyny -- 1 Sexuality and 'Legitimate Polygyny' -- 2 Social Reform and Its Advocacy of 'Legitimate Polygyny' -- 3 Critiques of Polygyny -- 4 Muslim Women's Conference, 1918, Lahore -- 5 Polygynous Marriage of Saiyid ?Abid Husain and Saliha ?Abid Husain -- 6 Conclusion -- 5 Marital Annulment and Separation of Family -- 1 Talaq (Divorce) -- 2 Divorce and Male Authority -- 3 Respectability, Equality and Marital Annulment -- 4 Debating Strategies for Change -- 5 Women's Freedom, Female Apostasy and Marriage -- 6 Two Men on Divorce: Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act of 1939 -- 7 Mahr and the Economy of Marriage -- 8 Ethical Dilemmas: Non-Legal Familial Conflict -- 9 Conclusion -- Postscript -- 1 Saiyida Bano Ahmad: Intimacy outside Marriage -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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