Unequal Citizens of a Liberal Democracy
A Socio-Scientific Study on Islamic Womanhood from India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21701575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Munshi Israil Hossain (0000-0002-0129-6662, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Prabhat Kumar College, Contai, West Bengal, India, [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 1-29 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1385-4879 • E-ISSN: 1571-8115 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718115-bja10077 |
| OpenAlex | W4229011194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
In almost every culture and society globally, women are victims of discrimination and suppression manifested in different spheres of socio-economic, political, cultural, and religious life and activity to varying degrees. Their socially and culturally assigned roles, status, and rights, have always been a subject of serious concern for academics, scholars, intelligentsia, activists, development authorities, and policymakers. The international community, more than ever, is now very sensitive to all issues concerning women’s human rights. Muslims are the largest and principal minority in India. But the mainstream society knows meager about their lives, diversity, religious and constitutional rights, and socio-legal movements for liberation, equity, and justice. One of the reasons for the inadequacy of data on Muslim women’s social history in this century is their absence from public life. Moreover, the general lack of research on minority women worldwide reveals the marginalisation of their experiences. This piece reflects on a contemporary profile of Indian Muslim women, emphasizing some of the critical sociological and anthropological aspects that have drawn widespread media attention recently. It also explores the underlying causes of their subordination, inequality, and exclusion, which act as a barrier to play a constructive role in society, in the context of Indian constitutionalism
Constitutionalism · Cultural rights · Democracy · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Mainstream · Minority rights · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Islamic Studies and History · Law
The Status of Woman in Islam
Human Rights under State-Enforced Religious Family Laws in Israel, Egypt and India
Feminists against Fascism
Politics of Locating Muslim Women in Islamic Discursive Tradition in India
Reconciling Islam and feminism
The resistance strikes back
Faith, work, and women in a changing world
Muslim Women, Self and Identity
Women’s struggles over religion and citizenship in contemporary India
On Minorities
Towards a Muslim Family Law Act? Debating Muslim women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India
Law, religion and gender equality
State, Citizenship and Religious Community
Whither Democracy, Secularism, and Minority Rights in India
Mass Media and Muslims in India
Islamism and gender activism
From Shah Bano to Shayara Bano (1985–2017)
Educational Attainment and Career Progression for British Muslim Women
Other Backward Class Muslims of West Bengal, India
The Movement for Women's Emancipation Within the Bengali Muslim Community in India
Locating Gramsci in Delhi's Shaheen Bagh
Smoothing down ruffled feathers
Indian Muslims and the Anti-CAA Protests
Shaheen Bagh and the hermeneutics of Muslim identity in South Asia
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |