An Islam of her own [electronic resource] : reconsidering religion and secularism in women's Islamic movements / Sherine Hafez.
2011
BP173.4 .H34 2011eb
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An Islam of her own [electronic resource] : reconsidering religion and secularism in women's Islamic movements / Sherine Hafez.
Author
Hafez, Sherine.
ISBN
9780814790724 (electronic bk.)
9780814773031
0814773036
9780814773048
0814773044
9780814773055
0814773052
9780814773031
0814773036
9780814773048
0814773044
9780814773055
0814773052
Publication Details
New York and London : New York University Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 191 p.)
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BP173.4 .H34 2011eb
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." Publisher Description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Islam of her own.
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Table of Contents
Introducing desiring subjects
Writing religion : Islam and subjectivity
Women's Islamic movements in the making
An Islam of her own : narratives of activism
Desires for ideal womanhood
Development and social change : Mehmeit
Reconsidering women's desires in Islamic movements.
Writing religion : Islam and subjectivity
Women's Islamic movements in the making
An Islam of her own : narratives of activism
Desires for ideal womanhood
Development and social change : Mehmeit
Reconsidering women's desires in Islamic movements.