This document summarizes the key points from a book titled "Women and Militancy". The book contains 6 chapters that examine the experiences of women from different communities in South Asia including Bihari women in Bangladesh, women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Ahmadiya Muslim women, women living in Dhaka slums, and women in Meghalaya, India. It finds that nationalism, state-induced violence, religious intolerance, relationships with local power brokers, and changes to traditional gender roles have all negatively impacted women and violated their security and rights. The document recommends adopting a gender perspective in the legal system, pursuing both healing and punishment, ensuring education and economic freedom, and becoming more humane

1. Book Review Session
Dr. Md. Ahsan Aziz Sarkar
Roll No. 9209

2. Women and Militancy
SOUTH ASIAN COMPLEXITIES

3. Editors
Imtiaz Ahmed
Professor of IR Dept. at
DU. Authored 15 books
and 90 articles.
Amena Mohsin
Professor of IR Dept. at
DU. Authored 3 books.

4. Other Authors
Tania Haque
Suchi Karim
Fouzia Mannan
From Women and Gender Studies
Parween Hasan
From Islamic History and Culture

5. Publication Details
In 2011
House: The University Press Limited
Page No.: 151

6. Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: On Bihari Women
Chapter 3: On Women of CHT
Chapter 4: On Women of Ahmadiya Community
Chapter 5: On Women of Urban Slum
Chapter 6: On Women of Meghalaya

7. Contents
Descriptive Qualitative Research
Small Sample
Structured or Semi-structured Interview

8. Women meaning
A Biological Construct
Social, Cultural, Historical
construct with defined gender role
Shy, Submissive, Emotional
Irrational, Weak

9. Militancy
Karl Marx
Extension Of capitalism
Domination of military
institute over civil
authority

10. Militancy
War: Sense of insecurity,
fear, lack of security
***In the context of South Asia a state of affairs, process,
behavioral pattern and policies that violate the day to
day living of citizens***.

11. Chapter 1: Introduction
Multilayered and complex
Contradictions

12. Chapter 1: Introduction
Colonialism, Nationalism
and Patriarchy
Marginalization and
fluidity of identity

13. Chapter 2: Unheard Voices: War Experience of
Bihari Women in Bangladesh
Biharis are Urdu speaking Population
During war: Males were killed female raped
After war: Poverty, struggle, alienation
What is our identity?
What version of history is true?

14. Chapter 3: Militarization and the Fate of
Women’s Body: A case study of
Chittagong Hill tracts
Article 9: Bengali nationalism is based on Bengali
culture and language
1/3rd of Army deployed in CHT
Women are displaced from family and society
State oppression and no justice

15. Chapter 4: Life and Living of Ahmadiya Muslim
Jamaat in Bangladesh: An Unholy Alliance of
Secular Politics and Religious Extremism
1 lakh followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad living here.
Subjects to various forms of violence.
Women are not allowed to marry outside community, no
schooling.
State and Religion acting together.

16. Chapter 5: Mastanocracy, insecurity and
Gender in Dhaka Slum
Fastest growing megacity in the world with 3 million
people living in the slum.
Mastans are service providers.
Violence, polygamy, marriage for security, sense of
injustice is common. Young women affected badly.
Informal alliance between state , political party and local
mastans.

17. Chapter 6: Militancy in Meghalaya: Politics
Beyond Matriarchy
Khasi Community: matriarchal society.
The rate of education, import of modern
values, communication with outside
world increasing.
Special Power Forces Act in Meghalaya.
Women as protector role is questioned.

18. Summary
War and Identity crisis.
Nationalism, state induced violence.
Religious intolerance and vote bank policy.
Local mastans and state officials.
Matriarchy in threat.

19. Recommendations
 Think about your identity. Allow diverse voices.
 Gender perspective in judicial Process.
 Healing as well as punishment.
 Education and Economic freedom.
 Become humane in thought and behavior.

20. Comparison
The second sex. By Simon De Beauvoir.
The female brain by Louann Brizendie.
Into a world of hate by Nick Ryan.

21. Conclusion
My mother was the queen of the kitchen
But the name engraved on the pots and pans
Is father’s.
Luck, they say, landed me in my great kitchen.
But the name engraved on the pots and pans
Is my husband’s.
Let us destroy those lonely kitchens.

22. THANK YOU