Deconstructing A Category
Sabiha Hussain
QUESTIONING THE MUSLIM WOMAN: IDENTITY AND INSECURITY IN AN URBAN INDIAN LOCALITY by Nida Kirmani Routledge, New Delhi, 2014, 227 pp., 695
March 2014, volume 38, No 3

Questioning the Muslim Woman by Nida Kirmani is a remarkable piece of work in which she tries to deconstruct the category ‘Muslim women’ through the narrative approach. The study was conducted in a Muslim majority urban locality (Zakir Nagar) of the capital city of India. Though the category of Muslim women or issue of Muslim women has always been a debated subject, the way the author has dealt with it is a departure from the existing literature on Muslim women. Throughout the book she tries to establish that Muslim women possess not a single identity but have multiple identities and hence, homogenization of the category of Muslim women is misleading and incorrect.

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