Archana Aryal

Bullets to Ballots:: Participation of Maoist Women in the Parliament and the Government of Nepal After the People's Movement 2006 Archana Aryal

This study attempts to explore women's political participation in the militant political movement on the basis of agency and emancipation. The analysis is based on Nepal's Maoist movement and women's agency within this. While analyzing, this study also gives special attention to the relationships of agency, emancipation and violence. Many feminist writings in the west challenge the notion of agency and say that it is absent in patriarchal militant movements. Thus, this study attempts to see whether it applies in the Maoist movement. In case of Nepal, the issue of caste, ethnicity, class, region are closely associated with the issue of gender thus this paper draws attention to the intersectionality between these and the issue of women's leadership. This study ultimately aims to add value in the area of women's engagement in the political process within the revolutionary movement in South Asia. Relevance