Abeda Sultana
Patriarchy is the prime obstacle to womens advancement and development. Despite differences in levels of domination the broad principles remain the same, i.e. men are in control. The nature of this control may differ. So it is necessary to understand the system, which keeps women dominated and subo...
Tahir Abbas, Tariq Modood
* Acknowledgements * Notes on Contributors * Foreword - Professor Tariq Modood, * PART I FROM ISLAM TO BRITISH MUSLIMS? * 1. British South Asian Muslims: State and Multicultural Society - Tahir Abbas * 2. Muslims in the UK - Ceri Peach * 3. Muslims in Britain: Issues, Policy and Practice - Muhammad ...
Leela Dube
<p>This is the first sustained effort to compare South and South-East Asia in respect of the situation of women. Arguing that kinship systems provide an important context in which gender relations are located, the study overlooks at three types of kinship system, found in their carious forms i...
David W. Shwalb
Dedication. J. Pleck, Foreword. D. W. Shwalb, B. J. Shwalb, M. E. Lamb, Preface. Part One Introduction D. W. Shwalb, B. J. Shwalb, M. E. Lamb, Introduction. Part Two Asia X,Li, M. E. Lamb, Fathers in Chinese Culture: From Stern Disciplinarians to Involved Parents. J. Nakazawa, D. W. Shwalb, Fatherin...
Julia Stephens
Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but instead fostered their vexed entanglement. It ...
Farah Deeba Chowdhury
Dowry increased with the expansion of capitalist relations that help capital accumulation by men in Bangladesh. It has been turned into ‘demand, extortion, material gain, and profit maximization’. The most common motives behind the dowry system are the grooms’ and their families’ greed, growing cons...
Md. Al‐Mamun, Md. Jamal Hossain, Morshed Alam, Md. Shahin Parvez et al.
The Hijra community is marginalized in social, political, and economic life and especially stigmatized in society. It is their birthright to make use of society's opportunities and amenities. This overview aimed to summarize the stigma, prejudice, exclusions, and discriminatory attitudes toward thir...
Haradhan Kumar Mohajan
This paper tries to analyze the development of waves of feminism. In the human civilization, “Feminism” is considered as a mass movement, which has commenced by women of all groups to remove all forms of feminist oppressions by men that are prevailing in a patriarchal society. The world has already ...
Shahnaz Huda
Marriage negotiations for Bangladeshi Muslims involve various financial transactions including primarily the religiously sanctioned dower ( mahr). Added to mahr, the practice of dowry or joutuk, demands made by the husband’s side to the bride’s side, have in the last few decades become a widespread ...
Euis Nurlaelawati
The 1974 Marriage Law and the Compilation of Islamic Law in Indonesia stipulate that permission of the religious court (Pengadilan Agama) is required for all divorces regardless of which party initiates the divorce. Thus, a man wishing to divorce is required to obtain permission to pronounce the div...
Jitka Kotalová
Belonging to others : cultural construction of womanhood among muslims in a village in Bangladesh
Bennett, Clinton 1955-
Five women have served as leaders of Muslim countries, namely Megawati Sukarnoputri (Vice President of Indonesia, 1991-2001 and President 2002-4), Benazir Bhutto (PM of Pakistan, 1988-90 and 1993-6), Sheikh Hasina (PM of Bangladesh, 1996-2001), Khaleda Zia (PM of Bangladesh, 1991-5 and 2001-6) and T...
Elora Shehabuddin
Abstract This article argues that leaders of the Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh regularly invoke women's privileged status as mothers to counter the claims of the largely secularist non-governmental organizations operating in the country today that Islam has been harmful to women and that the only ro...
Nahid Afrose Kabir
Offers insights into the hopes and aspirations of British Muslims from remarkably diverse ethnicitiesIn Britain's highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media provides an in-depth understanding of Brit...
Nilufar Ahmed, Ian Rees Jones
This article draws on Bourdieu's notion of habitus to address the interaction between cultural and structural factors in influencing the experience of informal care among Bangladeshi women in London. The authors present a secondary analysis of a qualitative study focusing on the accounts of informal...