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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Call Number: HQ1735.3

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.