ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the narratives of the members and the clients of Muslim women’s organisations, which highlight their continuous negotiations with religion, patriarchy, and community; it also explains multiple sites of their negotiations and resistance against practices like tin talaq, polygamy, and purdah. The narratives of women’s subjugation and resistance also explain that their identities as women are not fixed, rather, in the process of making. It, in turn, contradicts many of the quintessential images that dominant discourses produce. However, this is not to deny that their stories of exploitation and subordination adhere to the dominant representations, but it also registers their lived experiences of pain and struggle and collective activism for survival and their rights.
