This collection of original essays focuses on various aspects of gender in Sikhism. Divided into three sections- text and scripture, Sikh women in India, and women in diasporic contexts-it deals with women's lives and religious experiences. INDICE: Introduction Sikhism and Women: Contextualizing the Issues, Doris Jakobsh and Eleanor Nesbitt; 1.: Robin Rinehart,The Guru, The Goddess: The Dasam Granth and Its Implications for Constructions of Gender in Sikhism,; 2.:Purnima Dhavan, Tracing Gender in the Texts and Practices of the Early Khalsa; 3.: Anshu Malhotra, Shameful Continuities: The Practice of Female Infanticide in Colonial Punjab; 4.: C. Christine Fair, The Novels of Bhai Vir Singh and the Imagination of Sikh Identity, Community, and Nation; 5.: Michelle Maskiell, Phulkaris: The Crafting Of Rural Womens Roles In Sikh Heritage; 6.: Nicola Mooney, Lowly Shoes on Lowly Feet: Some Jat Sikh Womens Views on Gender & Equality; 7.: Preeti Kapur and Girishwar Misra, Changing Identities and Fixed Roles: The Experiences of Sikh Women; 8.: Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh Why did I not light the fire? The Refeminization of Ritual in Sikhism; 9.: Jagbir Jhutti-Johal, The role of Sikh women in their religious institutions: A contemporary account; 10.: Kamala Elizabeth Nayar, Sikh Women in Vancouver: An Analysis of their Psychosocial Issues; 11.: Inderpal Grewal, Making Sikh Women Refugees in 1990s U.S.A.; 12.: Constance W. Elsberg: By an Indirect Route: Women in 3HO/Sikh Dharma; 13.: Margaret Walton-Roberts, Transnational migration theory in population geography: Gendered practices in networks linking Canada and India; 14.: Kanwal Mand, Transnational Sikh women's working lives: place and the life course
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806002-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 392
- Fecha Publicación: 06/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés