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Based on rich empirical data, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented in the Kashmir valley. It broadens the understanding of women's agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in conflict.

Examining women's agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women's Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women's agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women's actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from many disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.

North Korean women's fashion has changed in the context of women's relatively recently assumed role as critical actors in North Korea's market-dependent economy. Through examination of changes in women's fashion we learn more about how the way women choose to dress can become an agentic and empowering process. The article argues that the case of North Korean women and their dress practice can inform our understanding of how women, even in the most oppressive of circumstances, develop tactics to manipulate the systems and social order that seek to control them. North Korean women have enacted upon their agency deliberately, getting away with what they can while simultaneously skilfully avoiding the dire consequences of being identified as actors who dare to disrupt the status quo. This type of agency is not always understood or appreciated by Western liberal frames and sensibilities of agency that centralise notions of individualism and freedom. This nuanced appreciation of women's agency has the potential to expand the "rights, choices and autonomy" Western discourse of women's agency in ways that are inclusive of women who live, and sometimes manage to thrive, in the face of extreme oppression. This paper is informed by the authors' field notes from trips to North Korea and by 45 in-depth interviews with North Korean refugees, regular visitors to North Korea and NGO workers.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks -- Part I: Choosing and Creating -- 1. Bad Habits and Female Agency -- Attending to Early Modern Women in the Material History of Intoxication -- Angela McShane -- 2. Setting up House -- Artisan Women's Trousseaux in Seventeenth-Century Bologna -- Joyce de Vries -- 3. Crafting Habits of Resistance -- Susan Dinan, Karen Nelson, and Michele Osherow -- Part II: Confronting Power -- 4. Confronting Women's Actions in History -- Female Crown Fief Holders in Denmark -- Grethe Jacobsen -- 5. Divisive Speech in Divided Times? -- Women and the Politics of Slander, Sedition, and Informing during the English Revolution -- Caroline Boswell -- 6. Why Political Theory is Women's Work -- How Moderata Fonte Reclaimed Liberty for Women inside and outside Marriage -- Caroline Castiglione -- 7. 'Wrestling the World from Fools' -- Teaching Historical Empathy and Critical Engagement in Traditional and Online Classrooms -- Jennifer Selwyn -- Part III: Challenging Representations -- 8. Thinking Beings and Animate Matter -- Margaret Cavendish's Challenge to the Early Modern Order of Things -- Mihoko Suzuki -- 9. The Agency of Portrayal -- The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period -- Saskia Beranek and Sheila ffolliott -- 10. Marking Female Ocular Agency in the 'Medieval Housebook' -- Andrea Pearson -- Part IV: Forming Communities -- 11. Claude-Catherine de Clermont -- A Taste-Maker in the Continuum of Salon Society -- Julie D. Campbell -- 12. Religious Spaces in the Far East -- Women's Travel and Writing in Manila and Macao -- Sarah E. Owens -- 13. Accounting for Early Modern Women in the Arts -- Reconsidering Women's Agency, Networks, and Relationships -- Theresa Kemp, Catherine Powell, and Beth Link -- Index -- List of figures and tables.

Portrayals of Islamic teachings in mass media often present Muslim women as victims of patriarchal norms. Often covered in a full veil, and without individuality, they tend to be depicted using a monochrome image, across Muslim countries and regions. It does not portray the social reality and expectations of Muslim women, which are in fact diverse and contextual. This book consists of articles that attempt to answer the question, are Muslim women merely passive objects in constructing their role, despite the spread of social media and the Internet, the increased demands of earning disposable income for their families, and their migration to non-Muslim countries around the world? It closely examines women's agency in negotiating their role in Muslim-majority societies and in new places of settlement (Australia). These articles analyse Muslim women's narratives in a wide range of economic, political, social and cultural milieu and their relationship to identity construction and portrayal in the new millennium"

Women's Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and women's subordination therein. British intervention, 1826–1947, by itself did not impact the agency aspect on women directly, but the emergence of new forces and factors sowed the seeds of women's agency to impact social change, even if minimal. In the post-Independence period, British colonial legacy perpetuated the s

Women's agency in conflict: A description of theory and methodology -- (Un)Gendered Political History of Swat Region: Arrival of Yousafzais, Religion and State Building and the Rise of Taliban -- Social Structures of Swat Region: Intersection of Religion, Ethnicity, Class and Gender with Women's Agency -- Women in Conflict: In-Between Victimhood and Agency (2005-2007) -- Women's Sufferings, Resistance and Resilience (2007-2009) -- Epilogue.

"Explores the question of how women craft meaningful "belonging" to national, regional, and global communities when belonging as a citizen becomes untenable. Evaluates the rhetorical practices that enable alternative belongings, such as denizenship, cosmopolitan nationalism, and transnational connectivity"--Provided by publisher

"This volume maps the role of mobile communication in the daily lives of women around the globe, shedding light on 'under-the-radar' use of mobile communication to display a nuanced understanding of social impacts that may affect the gender construction processes of women at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. A global team of authors focus on the use of mobile communication by women in the lower rungs of their respective societies, as well as those who migrate with marginalized statuses within and across the national borders, to demonstrate how "under the radar" use of mobile communication is deeply inscribed within diversified social, cultural, historical, and political milieus. Illuminating the social structural constraints faced by women under their dynamic negotiation of agentic mobile phone use for self-empowerment, the chapters cover women's economic activities, health care, well-being, migration, gendered identity, and the practices of different gender roles. This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students of media and communication, new and digital media, mobile communication, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, political science and cultural studies"--

Using decolonial and postcolonial nego-feminism, Postcolonial Imbusa: Bemba Women's Agency, and Indigenous Cultural Systems examines the daily lives of Bemba women and how imbusa has defined the behaviors and relations between women and men at home, church, and work.

Women have been structurally part of the masonic enterprise from at least the middle of the 18th century. This volume focuses on two aspects: Women's agency (the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (the role of men and women in changing and shaping the rituals women work with)

"In this comprehensive study of the role of women in the Italian mafia, Ombretta Ingrasci assesses the roles and spaces of women within traditionally male, patriarchal organized crime units. The study draws on an extensive range of research, legal reports and interviews with women involved with the mafia, public officials and police. Placed within a framework of political, social, cultural and religious history, post-1945, this book provides an excellent history of women and organized crime in modern Italy."--