Following up her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee
discovers that many of today's racist women combine dangerous racist and anti-Semitic …

The continual, unpredictable, and often violent" traffic" between identities in colonial and
postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has …

This article focuses on a discussion of some of the norms around sexuality and their
implications for sexual abuse of South Asian immigrant women. Based on the narratives of …

An oft-neglected subject, right-wing women are an important component in understanding
the many racist, fascist, and anti-feminist movements of the 20th century. Providing original …

Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women …

Against Purity confronts the difficulties that white Western feminism has in balancing issues
of gender with other forms of difference, such as race, ethnicity and nation. This pioneering …

The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public
debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated …

'The plight of Muslim women'periodically surfaces in the Indian media as well as in
academic forums. These discussions often focus on the tropes of parda, polygamy and …

British Empire in India saw major transformations in the identities of its Indian subjects. The
growth of the modern state, the introduction of new systems of knowledge, the expansion of …

This paper describes and criticizes myths about the scale and causes of fertility differentials
between Hindus and Muslims in India. These ideas, associated with Hindu nationalist …