Reprint
Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions
Edited by
July 2021
242 pages
- ISBN978-3-0365-1190-0 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-0365-1191-7 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Exploring Gender and Sikh Traditions that was published in
Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities
Summary
This volume gathers scholars who focus on gender through a variety of disciplines and approaches to Sikh Studies. The intersections of religion and gender are here explored, based on an understanding that both are socially constructed. Far from being static, as so often presented in world religions textbooks, religious traditions are constantly in flux, responding to historical, cultural and social contexts. So too is ‘the’ Sikh tradition in terms of practices, ideologies, rituals, and notions of identity. We here conclude that ‘a’ Sikh tradition does not exist; instead, there are numerous forms thereof. In this volume, Sikhism is presented as a collection of ‘Sikh traditions’. Gender studies—in line with women’s liberation, masculine and feminist studies have long examined and have long deconstructed the patriarchy, but also move to identify other subordinate-dominant relations between individuals. Indeed, there are numerous forms of discrimination and power structures that simultaneously create a multiplicity of oppression. Intersectionality has become the basis of an increasingly systematized production of contemporary discourses on feminism and gender analysis, as is evidenced by the varied contributions in this volume.
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
Sikh; western women; status of women; India; colonial; diaspora; missionaries; travelogue; suttee; infanticide; friendship; gender, religion and sexuality; Sikh literature and gender representations; Sikh diaspora and gender; lived religions and Sikhism; postcolonial life narratives and gender; trauma, testimonies and bearing witness; Sikhism; gender; gender construction; Dasam Granth; Sikhs; gender; Siri Guru Granth; Rahit Maryada; punj kakar; gurdwara; feminist thought; Sikh religion; masculinity; gender roles; women’s education; diaspora; women and Sikhism; Sikh women in Italy; seva performances; Sikh youth; Sikhs in Italy; gurdwaras in Italy; gender; caste; intersectionality; householding; Sikhism; counterpublic; embodiment; ethnography; gender; prayer; Sikhism; violence; widowhood; Sikhs; Sikh women and gender; Sikh diaspora; Canadian Sikhs; Sikh millennials; Sikh chic; Sikh entrepreneur; Sikh values; Khalsa; Sikh fashion; Sikhs in Barcelona; identity (re)construction; gender relations; agency; hypermasculinity; misogyny; sexism; good girl; bad girl; bhangra; rap; Hard Kaur; masculinities; gangs; British Columbia; moral panics; Sikhs; Punjabis; Khalistanis; Sikhs in France; undocumented migration; masculinity; construction sector; fitness; philanthropy; n/a