he archetypal perception about Muslim women is that they are victims of Islam and of patriarchy. So they don’t have any freedom to decide the trajectory of their lives. But is this really true? Ghazala Jamil, an Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University, dissects this notion in her book, Muslim Women Speak. In doing so she also reveals the fallacies and fault lines of India’s mainstream feminist movement and why the Muslim women’s movement must cut its own path.
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