Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia [1 ed.] 9004421106, 9789004421103
Women, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia highlights the rich tradition of protest and defiance among th
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Table of contents :
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1 Women, Islam and Social Reform
2 Ethics and the Question of Family
3 Urdū Public Sphere
4 Gender and Nationalism
5 Structure of the Book
Chapter 1 Familial Ethics and the Critique of Social Reform
1 Nineteenth Century Debates on Akhlāq: 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
Chapter 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 Urdū Magazines
4 Pardah: Seclusion and/or Participation
5 ‘Women’s Freedom’
6 Conclusion
Chapter 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 Niyāz Fatehpūrī: Colonial Knowledge and History of Sexuality
6 Conclusion
Chapter 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 ʿĀbid Husain and Sāliha ʿĀbid Husain
6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Marital Annulment and Separation of Family
1 Talāq (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: A ‘Rebel’ Life
1 Saiyida Bāno Ahmad: Intimacy outside Marriage
Bibliography
Urdū Works
English Works
Index
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
1 Women, Islam and Social Reform
2 Ethics and the Question of Family
3 Urdū Public Sphere
4 Gender and Nationalism
5 Structure of the Book
Chapter 1 Familial Ethics and the Critique of Social Reform
1 Nineteenth Century Debates on Akhlāq: 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
Chapter 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 Urdū Magazines
4 Pardah: Seclusion and/or Participation
5 ‘Women’s Freedom’
6 Conclusion
Chapter 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 Niyāz Fatehpūrī: Colonial Knowledge and History of Sexuality
6 Conclusion
Chapter 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 ʿĀbid Husain and Sāliha ʿĀbid Husain
6 Conclusion
Chapter 5 Marital Annulment and Separation of Family
1 Talāq (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: A ‘Rebel’ Life
1 Saiyida Bāno Ahmad: Intimacy outside Marriage
Bibliography
Urdū Works
English Works
Index
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