Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Agency.

This book examines how South Asian women's collective agency is operationalized through civic organizations in the UK. Drawing on black feminist theory and third world feminism, it shows the complexity of political agency and its relationship to identity and subjectivity, and uses empirical res...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Takhar, Shaminder
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Routledge research in gender and society.
Temas:
Women > Political activity > Great Britain.
South Asians > Great Britain > Politics and government.
Feminism > Political aspects > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Race relations.
Femmes > Activité politique > Grande-Bretagne.
Féminisme > Aspect politique > Grande-Bretagne.
Feminism > Political aspects
Race relations
Women > Political activity
Grande-Bretagne > Relations raciales.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Agency; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Redefining the Parameters of Political Activism: South Asian Women 'Rocking the Stereotype'; 2 Conceptualizing South Asian Women's Political Activism through a Feminist Lens; 3 Understanding Historical Representations: Political Agency, Resistance and the Role of Discourses; 4 Researching Political Agency; 5 Race, Agency and Political Activism; 6 'In the Name of the Father': Contours of Gender Relations; 7 Conceptualizing the Uneasy Relationship of Religion and Political Agency.
  • 8 ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.

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