Gender relations in South Asia

What is the main theme, idea, and argument of the reading? What does it say about gender relations in South Asia? Why is it relevant to understanding gender identities and women's lives in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh? Why is national identity important? What ideas do we get about masculinity and femininity at the time? How gender constitutes a site of contestation involving women, the state, political parties, and organizations that employ religious appeals. How our understandings of community and religious identities change when viewed from the vantage point of every day and the local. How we come to understand the implications and disjunctions of women's agency, emancipation, and empowerment. How women themselves construct, question, and grapple with their identities in South Asian socio-political contexts, especially the questions - "who is a woman in South Asia?" and "What is her identity?"                                                          

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