Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir

Amya Agarwal, "Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir "
English | ISBN: 1786612399 | 2022 | 176 pages | PDF | 7 MB
What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict?

Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented by the state armed forces and the non-state actors in the Kashmir valley. In addition, the book broadens the understanding of women’s agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in the conflict.
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