Unequal Citizens: A Study Of Muslim Women In India

This path breaking study of Muslim women in India seeks to dispel popular misperceptions and sterotypes regarding their status, as well as to seriously engage with academic debates on gender and Islam. The data and interpretative analysis presented here are based on the first ever national survey of 10,000 Muslim and Hindu women in India, covering a range of issues from education, work, socio-economic status, and marriage to decision-maing, autonomy, mobility, doemstic violence, access to welfare, and political participation. This volume throws light on the question of opportunieis, discrimination, and structural disadvantage; on the intersection of gender, class, and patriarchy in the creation of inequalities and subordination; on the startling similarities, as well as glaring disparities, within and ebtween communtieis, and ebtween Muslim and Hindu women; and on the impact of government policies and programmes on any improvement in the status of Muslim women.
About Author :
Zoya Hasan is Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of Qeust fro Power: Oppositional Movements and Post Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh, and his edited Parties and Party Politics in India. Ritu Menon is a publisher and writer. She is co-author of Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's partitition and editor, No women's Land: Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh write on the Partition of India.
Contents :
Acknoweldgements List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Socio-economic Status of Households Education Marriage Marriage Women's Work Decision making Mobility Doemstic Violence Access to Basic Amenities and Awareness of Welfare Schemes Women`s Participation in teh Political Process Access to Mass Media Conclusion Appendix