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    Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia

    Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia by Alam, Asiya;

    Series: Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia; 1;

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    • Publisher BRILL
    • Date of Publication 28 January 2021

    • ISBN 9789004421103
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages356 pages
    • Size 235x155 mm
    • Weight 742 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia offers an account of Muslim feminism in an age of nationalism and reform, and how it shaped debates on family, morality and society.

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    Long description:

    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 feminism conversing with, and confronting the dominant and influential narratives of didactic social reform. The book reveals how discussion about marriage and family evoked claims of women?s freedom and rights in a highly charged literary and cultural landscape where lesser-known female intellectuals jostled for public space alongside well-known male social reformers. Definitions of Islamic ethics remained central to these debates, and the book illustrates how claims of social obligation, religious duty and freedom balanced and negotiated each other in a period of nationalism and reform. By doing so, it also illuminates a story of Muslim politics that goes beyond the well-established accounts of Muslim separatism and the Pakistan movement.

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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


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