An Islam of Her Own : Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women's Islamic Movements / Sherine Hafez.
2011
BP173.4 .H34 2016
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Title
An Islam of Her Own : Reconsidering Religion and Secularism in Women's Islamic Movements / Sherine Hafez.
Author
Hafez, Sherine, author.
ISBN
9780814790724
Published
New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
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10.18574/nyu/9780814773031.001.0001 doi
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BP173.4 .H34 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
297.082
Summary
As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either "religious" or "secular" discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the 'secular' and the 'religious' as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism.In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on women's Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a women's Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Desiring Subjects
2. Writing Religion
3. Women's Islamic Movements in the Making
4. An Islam of Her Own
5. Desires for Ideal Womanhood
6. Development and Social Change
7. Reconsidering Women's Desires in Islamic Movements
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introducing Desiring Subjects
2. Writing Religion
3. Women's Islamic Movements in the Making
4. An Islam of Her Own
5. Desires for Ideal Womanhood
6. Development and Social Change
7. Reconsidering Women's Desires in Islamic Movements
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author