Course1104: Culture-Gender in InterAsia: Work, Sexuality, Religion
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Instructors: Tejaswini Niranjana, CSCS; Naifei Ding, National Central University, Taiwan |
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Day 4 – Religion / Custom
Areas of interest
● Personal law
● Community, customary practices and women
● Religion and masculinity
● Quotas for Women
Readings:
● Pratiksha Baxi, Shirin M. Rai, Shaheen Sardar Ali, “Legacies of Common Law: 'Crimes of Honour' in India and Pakistan”, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 7, The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis (2006), pp. 1239-1253
● Aihwa Ong, “State versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia”, American Ethnologist, Vol. 17, No. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 258-276
● Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2005
● Madhu Kishwar, “Women and Politics: Beyond Quotas”, Economic and Political Weekly October 26 1996, p. 2867
● Mary John, “Alternate Modernities? Reservations and Women's Movement in 20th Century” Economic and Political Weekly, Oct 21-Nov 3 2000, pp. 3822-29
● Anand Patwardhan, Father, Son, Holy War (film)
● Paromita Vohra, Morality TV and the Loving Jehad (film)
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