TY  - GEN
AU  - Behl, Natasha 
TI  - Gendered Citizenship: : understanding gendered violence in democratic India
SN  - 9780190098766
U1  - 323.30954  
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Citizenship
KW  - Secular State
KW  - Women--Social conditions
KW  - Religious Community
KW  - Women--Sikh
KW  - India
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Feminism--Political aspects
KW  - Women--Social life and customs
KW  - Women--Violence against
N1  - Include Bibliography and Index

N2  - In Gendered Citizenship, Natasha Behl offers an examination of Indian citizenship that weaves together an analysis of sexual violence law with an in-depth ethnography of the Sikh community to explore the contradictory nature of Indian democracy—which gravely affects its institutions and puts its citizens at risk. Through a situated analysis of citizenship, Behl upends longstanding academic assumptions about democracy, citizenship, religion, and gender. This analysis reveals that religious spaces and practices can be sites for renegotiating democratic participation, but also uncovers how some women engage in religious community in unexpected ways to link gender equality and religious freedom as shared goals. Gendered Citizenship is a groundbreaking inquiry that explains why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and identifies potential spaces and practices that can create more egalitarian relations
ER  -