Natasha Behl uses ethnographic data from the Sikh community in India to upend longstanding assumptions about democracy, citizenship, religion, and gender. This book reveals that religious spaces can be sites for renegotiating democratic participation, and uncovers how some women engage in religious community in unexpected ways to link gender equality and religious freedom as shared goals. Gendered Citizenship is a groundbreaking inquiry that explains why thepromise of democratic equality remains unrealized and identifies ways to create more egalitarian relations.

• Chapter 1: Politics in Unusual Places: Understanding Gendered Citizenship and Gendered Violence


• Chapter 2: Situated Citizenship: An Intersectional and Embodied Approach to Citizenship


• Chapter 3: Gendered Citizenship: Secular State, Religious Community, and Gender


• Chapter 4: Understanding Exclusionary Inclusion: Sikh Women, Home, and Marriage


• Chapter 5: Challenging Exclusionary Inclusion: Sikh Women, Religious Community, and Devotional Acts


• Chapter 6: Conclusion: Reconsidering Politics in Unusual Places


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Natasha Behl is Assistant Professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. Behl specializes in gender and politics, race and politics, democracy and citizenship, feminist and interpretive methodologies, and Indian politics. Her research is published in Feminist Formations, Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Journal of Punjab Studies.