FEMINISM UNDAUNTED: 50 YEARS AS A MUSLIM FEMINIST (eBook)

50 Years as a Muslim Feminist

Wazir Jahan Karim (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
436 Seiten
World Scientific Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-981-12-6202-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Wazir Jahan engages the reader in absorbing stories from her childhood to retirement against a backdrop of events in Malaysia — cultural, academic and political — which elucidates the complexities of being a Muslim feminist, in a divisive Asian society. Her narrative demonstrates that each woman can successfully negotiate the boundaries between patriarchy, family and modernity if they believe that being a woman is synonymous with being a feminist - that institutions which obstruct women's path to freedom can be challenged through recognising the power of individualism. Jahan believes that once a woman understands what can work well for her, within the limitations of her own achievements and resources, she could be able to rise above these intimidations of life and actively engage in pursuing her dreams. For Jahan, femininity and feminism are complementary forms of activism which enabled her to gain acceptance and legitimacy for her work with disadvantaged and minority women. Her frank and refreshing confessions of success and failures in her work on women and gender demonstrates confidence, individuality and charisma — a catharsis in the journey to discovering the power of womanhood.

Contents:

• Foreword
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Epilogue
• Malaya, 1955
• Early Beginnings, Lahore, 1873
• The Women's Institute
• The Convent
• Secret Readings
• Eusoff College and Eusoffians
• The Social Sciences
• The LSE
• A Femme Fatal
• Do Not Forget Us!
• Feminist Fields
• KANITA
• Passions of Faith and Heart
• Cambridge Conversations
• Epilogue
• Selected Readings
• Index

Readership: Undergraduates, graduates and researchers interested in the intersectionality between feminism, race, religion and society.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.6.2025
• Verlagsort: Singapore
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Activism among Minorities • Asian values • Bismillah Begum Munawar • Centre for Women and Development • Colonialism in Malaya • Dr Karim Nawab Din • Gender empowerment • Gender Studies • Gender Studies in Malaysia • Hafiz Ghulam Sarwar • KANITA • Lahore and Migration to Malaya • Le Coq Dor Kuala Lumpur • London in the 1970' • Ma' Betise' on Carey Island • Malaya Post-Communist Era • Maurice Bloch • Memoirs of a Muslim Feminist • Minority Women • Missionary Education in Malaya • Muslim feminism • Muslim Girls in Missionary Schools • National University of Singapore, Eusoff College • Orang Asli • participant observation • Participatory Research, Study-service • S • Tertiary Feminism • The Communist Reinsurgency • University Sains Malaysia • Women's Institute • Women Studies in Kedah, Malaysia
• ISBN-10: 981-12-6202-0 / 9811262020
• ISBN-13: 978-981-12-6202-9 / 9789811262029