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Journal articles on the topic "Sikh women – Identity"

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Jakobsh, Doris R. "Seeking the Image of ‘Unmarked’ Sikh Women: Text, Sacred Stitches, Turban." Religion and Gender 5, no. 1 (February 19, 2015): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18352/rg.10085.

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With the inauguration of the Khalsa in 1699 by the tenth guru of the Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, a new understanding of ‘being Sikh’ was put in place. In examining the earliest prescriptive texts of the Khalsa, manifestations of Sikh religio-cultural identity and visual distinctiveness were deeply connected to the male Sikh body. This study locates Sikh women within a number of these early ritual and textual ordinances while also exploring how Sikh female religio-cultural materiality is contradistinct to the normative Khalsa male body. The production of phulkaris, a form of embroidered head covering (but having other uses as well) was historically associated with Sikh women and are here examined as alternate forms of religious belonging, ritual production and devotion. This study concludes with an examination of how the turban, for a small number of diasporic Sikh women, can be understood both as a rejection of traditional Sikh female ideals, as well as a novel form of Sikh women’s identity construction that is closely aligned with Sikh masculine ideals.
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Kapur, Preeti. "Sharing identity through dress: The case of Sikh women." Psychological Studies 55, no. 2 (June 2010): 101–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12646-010-0012-7.

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Santos-Fraile, Sandra. "The Sikh Gender Construction and Use of Agency in Spain: Negotiations and Identity (Re)Constructions in the Diaspora." Religions 11, no. 4 (April 9, 2020): 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11040179.

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For decades, Sikhs have made the choice to migrate to the United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (USA), or Canada, as these countries are held in high esteem by Sikh communities and appear to afford prestige in socio-cultural terms to those who settle in them. However, changes in border policies (among other considerations such as the greater difficulty of establishing themselves in other countries, the opening of borders by regularization processes in Spain, commercial business purposes, or political reasons) have compelled Sikh migrants to diversify their destinations, which now include many European countries, Spain among them. The first generation of Sikhs arrived in Spain as part of this search for new migratory routes, and there are now sizable Sikh communities settled in different parts of this country. All migrants need to follow a process of adaptation to their new living environment. Moreover, a novel living context may offer new possibilities for migrants to (re)negotiate old identities and create new ones, both at individual and collective levels. This article will explore a case study of a Sikh community in Barcelona to reflect on the forms in which Sikh men and women perceive, question, and manage their identity and their lives in this new migratory context in Spain. The present paper argues that adaptation to the new place implies identity negotiations that include the redefinition of gender roles, changes in the management of body and appearance, and, most particularly, the emergence of new forms of agency among young Sikh women. In addition, we argue that new forms of female agency are made possible not only by the opportunities offered by the new context, but also emerge as a reaction against the many pressures experienced by the young women and exerted by their male counterparts in Sikh communities, as the latter push against the loss of traditional values.
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Dusenbery, Verne A. "Graceful Women: Gender and Identity in an American Sikh Community." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 34, no. 2 (March 2005): 141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610503400216.

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Gupta, Monika. "Sikh women diaspora in the United Kingdom: redefining identity and empowerment." Sikh Formations 17, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 468–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2021.2010962.

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Singh, Jaspal Kaur. "Negotiating Ambivalent Gender Spaces for Collective and Individual Empowerment: Sikh Women’s Life Writing in the Diaspora." Religions 10, no. 11 (October 28, 2019): 598. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10110598.

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In order to examine gender and identity within Sikh literature and culture and to understand the construction of gender and the practice of Sikhi within the contemporary Sikh diaspora in the US, I analyze a selection from creative non-fiction pieces, variously termed essays, personal narrative, or life writing, in Meeta Kaur’s edited collection, Her Name is Kaur: Sikh American Women Write About Love, Courage, and Faith. Gender, understood as a social construct (Butler, among others), is almost always inconsistent and is related to religion, which, too, is a construct and is also almost always inconsistent in many ways. Therefore, my reading critically engages with the following questions regarding life writing through a postcolonial feminist and intersectional lens: What are lived religions and how are the practices, narratives, activities and performances of ‘being’ Sikh imagined differently in the diaspora as represent in my chosen essays? What are some of the tenets of Sikhism, viewed predominantly as patriarchal within dominant cultural spaces, and how do women resist or appropriate some of them to reconstruct their own ideas of being a Sikh? In Kaur’s collection of essays, there are elements of traditional autobiography, such as the construction of the individual self, along with the formation of communal identity, in the postcolonial life writing. I will critique four narrative in Kaur’s anthology as testimonies to bear witness and to uncover Sikh women’s hybrid cultural and religious practices as reimagined and practiced by the female Sikh writers.
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Khamisa, Zabeen. "Disruptive Garb: Gender Production and Millennial Sikh Fashion Enterprises in Canada." Religions 11, no. 4 (March 31, 2020): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11040160.

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Several North American Sikh millennials are creating online values-based fashion enterprises that seek to encourage creative expression, self-determined representation, gender equality, and ethical purchasing, while steeped in the free market economy. Exploring the innovative ways young Sikhs of the diaspora express their values and moral positions in the socio-economic sphere, one finds many fashionistas, artists, and activists who are committed to making Sikh dress accessible and acceptable in the fashion industry. Referred to as “Sikh chic”, the five outwards signs of the Khalsa Sikh—the “5 ks”—are frequently used as central motifs for these businesses (Reddy 2016). At the same time, many young Sikh fashion entrepreneurs are designing these items referencing contemporary style and social trends, from zero-waste bamboo kangas to hipster stylized turbans. Young Sikh women are challenging mainstream representations of a masculine Sikh identity by creating designs dedicated to celebrating Khalsa Sikh females. Drawing on data collected through digital and in-person ethnographic research including one-on-one interviews, participant observation, and social media, as well as fashion magazines and newsprint, I explore the complexities of this phenomenon as demonstrated by two Canadian-based Sikh fashion brands, Kundan Paaras and TrendySingh, and one Canadian-based Sikh female artist, Jasmin Kaur.
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Hussain, Yasmin. "South Asian Disabled Women: Negotiating Identities." Sociological Review 53, no. 3 (August 2005): 522–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2005.00564.x.

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This paper is concerned with the identities of disabled South Asian women within Britain. It presents empirical evidence concerning how disability, gender and ethnicity are negotiated simultaneously for young disabled Muslim and Sikh women. How these identities are negotiated is analysed in the realms of family, religion and marriage drawing on qualitative interviews with the young women, their parents and siblings. The paper argues against ideas of singular identity or the hierarchisation of identities or oppressions. The paper contributes to contemporary debates about how young South Asian women are constructing new forms of identity in Britain.
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Bertolani, Barbara. "Women and Sikhism in Theory and Practice: Normative Discourses, Seva Performances, and Agency in the Case Study of Some Young Sikh Women in Northern Italy." Religions 11, no. 2 (February 17, 2020): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11020091.

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The paper reflects on the role of women in Sikhism in theory and social practice, starting from a case study in northern Italy. Although the normative discourse widely shared in mainstream Sikhism affirms the equality between man and woman and the same possibility to manifest devotion through every kind of seva (social service within gurdwaras), empirical observation in some Italian gurdwaras has shown a different picture, as there is a clear division of tasks that implicitly subtends a gender-based hierarchy. This relational structure is challenged by intergenerational tensions, especially by young women born or raised in Italy, who may want to develop a different Sikh identity, considered compatible also with the Italian social and cultural context. In this initial process of collective identity definition and of agency, the female participation in the religious seva within gurdwaras is identified as the tool for change of power relations that cross genders and generations.
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Buitrago Leal, Roxana. "What are the different ways in which we can understand gendered diasporic identities?" Zona Próxima, no. 11 (May 17, 2022): 170–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.14482/zp.11.080.91.

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Gender studies has facilitated the exploration of Aids and Migration among other social problems, and has enabled a more sensible understanding of the discrimination practices that exist around them. This paper will discuss the aspects in which gender studies have contributed to assess issues regarding migration from the gendered diaspora perspective. This sociological construction of diaspora encompasses the many different reasons why migrants decide to leave their country, bounded by national, racial or ethnic background, which enroll in a strong political motivation. Although in this essay, the theoretical discussion will embrace male gendered diasporas as well, critics of the term have questioned how gendered diasporas have been traditionally understood of men. The first part of the discussion will be guided by the question: what is a gendered diaspora identity? The essay will emphasise the gendered category of analysis. I will argue how gendered identities are constructed under the circumstances of dominance and oppression that result from displacement. First, the deconstruction of the social category of gendered diaspora will be assessed, through an examination of Ella Shohat ́s agreement of identity. The essay will then examine the term diaspora and its ambivalences and criticisms. The second part of the discussion will consider three separate cases of how gendered diasporic identities are being understood, including: the cultural representations of Cuban Americans, the Sikh diaspora and Armenian women in Los Angeles.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Sikh women – Identity"

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Kaur, Jasdeep. "The masquerade : Indian Punjabi Sikh women and the renegotiation of boundaries and body identity in Australia." Master's thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116865.

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This thesis argues that Sikh women in Australia experience the burden of protecting the cultural traditions of their religious group. Here an analysis is made of their attempt to construct a new boundary or a new space for themselves. Sikh immigrant women in Australia are what Spivak termed, and other post-colonial writers have also noted, the "third-world displaced woman", caught between tradition and modernisation. Sikhs, a religious cultural group from Punjab, India, have for centuries proclaimed the equality of the sexes in their faith. Yet, Sikh women are tied to their cultural religious boundaries even when they have left the homeland of Punjab and sought to renegotiate their boundaries and body identity elsewhere. I argue that the religious culture of the Sikhs carries the same meaning and weight to them as any ethnic identification so that whatever geographical area they emigrated to, they usually set up enclaves to distinguish themselves from the wider population. My theoretical and analytical framework for studying how Sikh women in Australia renegotiate their cultural boundaries and body identity in order to find a space for themselves in the new culture, draws on concepts of culture and cultural boundaries, post-colonialism and body identity. The study incorporates a qualitative phenomenological methodology that seeks to understand the lived experience of Sikh women who have either migrated to Australia from Punjab or who have been born to parents who emigrated from Punjab. The study's findings will help to determine how Sikh women renegotiate boundaries and identities in order to live successfully in two cultures. The elements included in this study are a theory-based discussion of the issues, field work, researcher's notes and observations, and analysis of the data.
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Books on the topic "Sikh women – Identity"

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Graceful women: Gender and identity in an American Sikh community. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

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Jakobsh, Doris R. Relocating gender in Sikh history: Transformation, meaning and identity. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.

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Frauen "unter sich": Eine Untersuchung über weibliche Gemeinschaften im Milieuvergleich. Wiesbaden: VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss., 2009.

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Jakobsh, Doris R. Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transforming, Meaning and Identity. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.

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Bariana, April Kaur. Broken covenant: Punjabi Sikh narratives. 1997.

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Relocating Gender in Sikh History: Transformation, Meaning and Identity (Oxford India Paperbacks). Oxford University Press, USA, 2005.

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Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur. Birth of the Khalsa: A Feminist Re-Memory of Sikh Identity. State University of New York Press, 2005.

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The Birth of the Khalsa: A Feminist Re-memory of Sikh Identity. State University of New York Press, 2005.

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Singh, Nikky-Guninder Kaur. The Birth of the Khalsa: A Feminist Re-Memory of Sikh Identity (SUNY Series in Religious Studies). State University of New York Press, 2005.

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1932-, Camenzind Elisabeth, and Steinen, Ulfa von den, 1939-, eds. Frauen definieren sich selbst: Auf der Suche nach weiblicher Identität. Zürich: Kreuz, 1991.

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Book chapters on the topic "Sikh women – Identity"

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"Resituating Discourses of ‘Whiteness’ and ‘Asianness’ in Northern England: Second-generation Sikh Women and Constructions of Identity." In New Frontiers In Women's Studies, 128–50. Taylor & Francis, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203987438-16.

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